[HPFGU-Movie] Re: GoF movie

[Sherry Gomes]

I guess I watch movies very differently.  because i can't see them, they are
still all about story to me.  Plot and character.  i am a die hard Tolkien
fan by the way, and there were several things that disturbed me about the
movies, though after listening to the commentaries, I can understand them
from a film maker's perspective. Well, except for one of them.  But I feel
like the story in the HP movies gets lost to the look and the effects.  As
to the idea that if JKR likes them why shouldn't I ... well, everyone views
or reads an art form differently.  many HP fans don't like what JKR did with
things in her books.  i may not like the way they end.  We have that right
to feel that way about the books or the movies.  So far, JKR has never
disappointed me, so I'm positive the end of her series won't disappoint
either.  But the movies, for me, have steadily gotten away from what I read
as the spirit of the books.  maybe it's just the difference in that I don't
have a visual image of the story at all.

sherry


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Subject: [HPFGU-Movie] Re: GoF movie


--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Sherry Gomes" <sherriola at e...> 
wrote:
>
> I hope that growing up right now, is some kid who will be a great 
movie
> director someday and will take on a project of redoing all the HP 
movies.
> somewhat in the way Jackson did LOTR.  sure, those weren't perfect 
for
> everything, but in general, he did a wonderful job because he 
wanted to
> honor Tolkien's work.  Maybe, someday, someone will feel like that 
about the
> Potter books and we might get some truly fine movies.  POA movie 
was so
> disappointing to me, and I actually fell asleep during the DVD!  I 
think
> I'll skip GOF so as not to feel so disappointed.
> 
> Sherry
>
Though there have been some things I have thought could have been 
done better or wondered why something was left out. I really have 
been impressed that the films IMHO do reflect the "spirit" of the 
books. Yes, Hermione is a bit of a heroine and Ron is sort of a comic 
relief but the films have been good. I think my only real issue is 
that sometimes they cut out a scene but then but something else in 
that was not in the book. I will say however, that everything I have 
read in interviews with JKR and the filmmakers they have reiterated 
that she reads each version of the script. Since she wrote the books 
and is happy with the films - why shouldn't I be.

Yes Peter Jackson did a good job with LOTR BUT...
1. True LOTR fans can pick apart his changes (I have a friend who is 
a die-hard Tolkien fan and said several of the key things changed but 
I read the books too long ago to remember)
2. The LOTR storyline takes place over a couple of years not 7 and 
the characters are mostly grown up. I think it would be difficult to 
use the same actors for the children and make the movies in a 2 year 
timespan where the kids go from 11 year olds to 18 year olds. 
Children just change so much in that time period that I personally 
don't think it would work. As it is they are filming them pretty 
close to being back to back and if all 7 are made with Daniel, Emma 
and Rupert - I think that will be so cool as it will be like watching 
Harry, Hermione and Ron grow up.

Anyway, that's my 2 cents. Don't get me wrong I LOVED the LOTR films 
and have probably watched them close to if not more than the HP 
series DVDs but after #1 I forced myself to repeat over and over 
during the trailers prior to say "this is not the book and JKR loved 
it". It works for me. Anyway, sorry so many folks are going to not 
see this one. I think it will be truly exciting and have my tickets, 
am pulling the boys out of school and going to watch it with an open 
mind.

Theresa







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