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

[Lizzie Mae Lilly]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Cat" <CatMcNulty at ...> wrote:
>
> 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 >^-.-^<
> 

While Gambon is an idjut for refusing to read the books, the blame 
for his wardrobe and makeup has to go to Cuaron.  Just look at what 
he did to poor Flitwick!  ::grumble:: The next director (Newell) 
apparently felt he had to continue the look of both those 
characters.  Thank gawd Cuaron didn't mess with Snape!

I miss the REAL Dumbles too.

Lizzie