New interview with Dan, Katie and David Yates

[laurenmcoakley]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, lilyp <lilyp at ...> wrote:
>
>  Lynda AKA "Abraxan" wrote: 
> 
>   It's a nice 
> > 
> >article, although the author made a few mistakes here and there 
(called 
> "Ginny" "Jenny," for instance). Here's a link to the article: 
> >_ http://ww3.mid- day.com/smd/ play/2006/ august/142400. htm_ 
> 
> Lilyp: 
> Hi, I'm new here and my purpose, when I joined the group was more 
> one of research, of knowing what the fans think about the films, 
> the cast and the actors' choices, than to participate in the 
> debates. I am Brazilian and writing in English is not that easy to 
> me. 
> 
> But I couldn't resist to comment on this article. The reporter 
> gets nice answers and tells a lot of interesting things, but he 
> clearly doesn't know much about Harry Potter. He says David Yates 
> is the first English diretor (and Mike Newell is English), he 
> doesn't know the name of Ginny, who opened the chamber of Secrets, 
> who is Ron's sister and who will be Harry's girlfriend in the next 
> installment. The guy simply can't make the right questions if he 
> doesn't know what he is talking about. The article is good 
> because, despite the mistakes, it gives us lots of information, 
> but it could be a lot better if the reporter knew what to ask. 
> 
> And that is a concern of mine. Usually the press doesn't know 
> enough about HP. Lizo Mzimba, from CBBC and BBC is an exception 
> (he's fantastic). I've seen articles that said that Luna would be 
> Harry's girlfriend in the fifth film, for instance. The reporters 
> see some novelty or something that seems juicy and try to expand it
> without really knowing what they're doing. 
> 
> In OotP, there are wonderful new characters (Luna, Tonks and 
> Umbridge), but there are also "old" characters that seem 
> like "new", because we see so much more about them and their 
> growing up process, that is Nevile and Ginny. 
> 
> The press, not knowing the book, goes after the "new" characters 
> and  things like "Potter's girlfriend" and "the kiss", but ignore 
> Neville's and Ginny's development. 
> 
> The Leaky Cauldron had an interview with Matthew Lewis in last 
> week's  PotterCast and the actor told something about Neville's  
> development (I'll post the link when they have a transcription of 
> it). He says the Neville is really almost a new character and that 
> it has been challenging to do him. 
> 
> But we don't have anything about Ginny and nobody has interviewed 
> Bonnie on that. I'm really anxious to know what Ginny is like in 
> this film, because her portrayal is important so that people won't 
> be too much astonished when Harry begins to fancy her. 
> 
> How do you feel about it? I'm so frustrated with the press! 
> Lilyp 
 
And now Lauren: 
Hi Lilyp,
I've been unable to contribute to all of the interesting 
conversations going on around here, but now that my boss is on 
vacation (yay!) I'd like to give you my two knuts on this one.  I 
hope I add something interesting to this conversation as well!

I think the problem is that the press focuses greatly on the movies, 
as opposed to the books.  I guess it sort of makes sense when you 
think about it, because if the press disected the books the way they 
do movies nowadays, there almost wouldn't be a point of reading 
them; they'd told you all the good parts. (Like trailers do for 
movies- I'll see a trailer for a film and get all excited to see it, 
only to find out once I've wasted my $9.50 that I've seen all the 
best parts in the trailer for free already!)

The way the movies have been coming to shape up lately, I wonder how 
closely the last installment of the books & movies will align.  I 
felt the film GOF was by far the furthest from the book, and I 
expect OoTP to be further still (there is no "Weasley is Our King, 
no Quidditch... read it yourself on http://www.mugglenet.com/)

As a fan who came to the wizarding world from watching the film POA, 
I feel that I am a fan of two different types of Harry Potter.  The 
movie fan in me doesn't have a clue of Movie Harry & Movie Ginny's 
impending relationship (but book fan me does and loves it!).  Movie 
fan Lauren doesn't know who Ludo Bagman is, doesn't have a clue 
where Dobby has been, and thinks Ginny and Neville are seemingly 
unimportant characters (even when Hermione screams at Mad-Eye in 
class about the Cruciatus Curse- why did she do that?).

Any thoughts?  Like I said, just my two knuts.