Inconsistency and Incoherence/GOF!Movie!DD/JKR's input to the script

[susanbones2003]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Richard <hp at p...> 
> 
> You're forgetting another very important set of fingerprints: that 
of the 
> actor. Michael Gambon, by his own admission, has not read the 
books, and 
> expects the script to convey everything he needs to know (with, of 
course, 
> a little input from the director - whose job, after all, is to 
*direct*!). 
> :-) To my knowledge, neither Gambon nor Harris had any direct 
contact with JKR.
> 
> I think I also caught a production comment somewhere that another 
> controversial moment, DD grabbing Harry's shoulders during that 
same scene, 
> was Gambon's idea, and Newell let him run with it. from what I've 
seen, 
> more electronic ink has been generated in the HP fandom because of 
that one 
> act than any other aspect of the movie. :-)
> 
> The fact that the movie-going public has had two very, very 
different 
> "kinds" of Dumbledore from two very different actors (not to 
mention three 
> directors) has more to do with any conceived 
instability/inconsistency than 
> anything else anyway, so my own view is not to worry about it, and 
> certainly not to try to draw any conclusions of Book!Dumbledore's 
> motivations from his movie counterpart - in particular because the 
movies 
> can at best sketch the character (and the world he inhabits), 
compared to 
> what the book can do.

Richard,
By implication you bring up a very, perhaps, depressing idea, that  
the film versions of Harry Potter can only be crude approximations 
of JKR's books and that to expect them to be more is unrealistic. Is 
that a fair statement?
JenD 
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