Fear the grime, not the Grim!

[Annalisa Moretti]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "chthonia9" 
<chthonicdancer at h...> wrote:
> 1) The change in location
> So many images in the first film were exactly how I'd imagined 
them.  
> Alnwick castle made a good Hogwarts. Glencoe was an impressive 
> settling, and perhaps this new vision of Hogwarts might have 
worked 
> if the other hadn't become embedded, but – having established the 
> look of the place – why change it?  They didn't change the actors 
who 
> play the characters (well, not the major ones) – why do they think 
> that continuity of the locations that `play' the places is less 
> important?

Mm, but you see, what you thought was the ideal image of certain 
places, some didn't. To me, the sets of the first two movies seemed 
too neat and tidy, too cartoonish. They didn't represent the way I 
interpreted JKR's world, at all. To you, they did. But Columbus's 
vision of the world, and yours, was just as much interpretation 
(like "fanfic", as you put it, which I think is a good analogy) as 
Cuaron's or mine.

All movies adaptations can't help but be sort of like fanfic. It can 
never be more than an interpretation of a source, no matter how 
faithful the directors, writers, etc, try to be.

-- Annalisa