Will the REAL Dumbledore please stand up! (WasRe: hi, I'm new)

[Cat]

I know that Gambon did not want to "copy" Harris' Dumbledore. More is 
the pity to not learn from those that have gone before ... Harris was 
the quintessenctial Dumbledore (just like I pictured him from the 
books.) I was hoping when the recast had to be done that they would 
get Harris' long time chum, Peter O'Toole for the part. I believe 
that he could have carried off the stately, reserved, compassionate 
(and flawed) Dumbledore without "copying" Harris but portraying 
Dumbledore. Gambon is a fine actor but his characterization portrays 
his Dumbledore as a flapping loony in a rumbled bed-sheet and his 
energies are far too scattered for the incredibly controlled 
Dumbledore.
When I read JKR's glorious descriptions of Dumbledore's clothing...it 
saddens me to know that when he appears in the movie...he will be a 
rumpled grey bedsheet ... not a marvelous, stately wizard draped in 
purple velvet spangled with gold stars.

Still mourning the REAL Dumbledore,
Cat >^-.-^<



--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Valerie Flowe <valerie.flowe at ...> 
wrote:
>
> >  Plus Michael Gambon said he didn't want to try to imitate Harris'
> >  portrayal of DD, he wanted to be different.
> >  When I read the books I still hear Harris' voice as Dumbledore 
in my
> >  mind.
> >
> >  Robert
> >
> We watched about 1/2 an hour of Sorcerer's Stone tonight before the 
> kids went to bed. It always pains me to see Richard Harris in that 
> first scene. He's so good and yet I know he won't last. I agree 
that 
> the 'later Dumbledore' and especially Dumbledore of Book 7, is less 
> genteel than in the first 2 books/films. Still, I also think of 
Richard 
> Harris as the 'true' Dumbledore.
> Tonight my husband said "why does Hogwarts look different  if every 
> movie?!" Good point; again, directors vision. But I think the 
changes 
> should be subtle so as not to disrupt the visual flow of the 
series. I 
> understand that most people don't watch the films back to back 
(well, 
> except for us Potter fanatics, ha!) but still. What's been so nice 
> about this series is how hard they've tried to keep most of 
characters, 
> major and minor, throughout the last 5 movies. I love that.
> Valerie
>