Quentin Tarantino (was M Night Shyamalan as a HP director)

[susanbones2003]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Valerie Flowe <valerie.flowe at ...> 
wrote:
>
> >  Well, he's a pretty good director but I fear we'd end up with a M
> >  Night Shyamalan movie not a Harry Potter movie. Peter Jackson 
would be
> >  a better choice, but Quentin Tarantino would be even better. 
Nobody
> >  can direct action sequences better than him, and as a 
screenwriter
> >  nobody can write better dialog. And we know Tarantino can be 
faithful
> >  to a book, novelist Elmore Leonard said Tarantino's film "Jackie
> >  Brown" was the best adaptation of any of his books.
> >
> >  Eggplant
> >
> Yikes, Tarantino doing Harry Potter?! It would be nothing but blood 
and 
> gore. I think he focuses too much on action and not enough on 
> character...but that's just my two knuts. I was watching GOF again 
last 
> night and think that Mike Newell did a very nice job with the 
action 
> scenes. I'd like to see him finish up the series.
> Valerie
> 
Valerie,
I agree Quentin T. would be too much for HP. He's another director 
who leaves an indelible personal stamp on any production he directs. 
I agree that Mike Newell was good. He stood back and let Harry come 
out. If the script could have made a few more connections and ended 
in a way that related at all to the story, we'd have hit a clear home 
run. But in the main, he made a good match. You could see that he 
liked the story itself, not as a vehicle for his vision. Harry is 
what matters when you are at a Harry Potter movie. It was foreboding 
when it needed to be, you did get the feeling of increasingly 
something bad was up. Let's hope that we get other directors who 
really like Harry. 
Jen D.