Foreshadowing of book 6 in PoA AND IMHO

[Annalisa Moretti]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Miller, Gina (JIS)" 
<ginamiller at j...> wrote:
>       Gina's first post here:
>             I enjoyed the movie, but I agree with your friend on 
the set and
> all. Why do directors always seem to ruin movies      trying to 
outdo each
> other?  Everyone LOVED the first two movies so why change the 
castle and
> grounds that we were so   familiar with? It is understandable why 
they
> changed DD, but why Fudge and Flitwick? 

Huh? Who loved the first two movies? I certainly didn't. Neither did 
most people I know. I wasn't satisfied with the bubblegum fantasy 
land sets of the Columbus's wizarding world and I don't think JKR 
was, either. They simply weren't true to the book.

Now I don't know why they changed Flitwick, though since we only see 
him for about a matter of two minutes it's nothing that's breaking 
my heart. Fudge, well, we've never seen him before, so there's 
nothing to change. He's not precisely as he is in the book, but 
then, a lot of things aren't - Harry's eyes aren't green, his hair 
isn't black, Hermione doesn't have buck teeth, Ron doesn't have 
freckles, the school robes in none of the movies look anything like 
they are supposed to in the book ... etc.

Gina - who cannot help but remember Hagrid's cabin the way it
> was and how this new DD does not have the twinkle    in his eyes I 
have come
> to love so much. Sean Connery with a long beard would have been a 
great
> replacement!

I apologize, but Gambon is 10x the Dumbledore Harris was. He's wise 
and humorous and wacky, just the way DD should be. Sean Connery as 
DD would make me sick. For one thing, he'd try to take the whole 
franchise over, as he did with League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, by 
bullying the producers and waving his enormous ego around. Sean 
Connery, amazingly, is NOT the most appropriate person to play any 
role calling for an aged man in the general location of the British 
isles.

-- Annalisa