[HPforGrownups] Anti-movie sentiments ( just moved)

[Amy Z]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Melanie Brackney <ilovbrian_99 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
>  Okay,
> Here is my little rant about this.  Has anybody seen this movie?  
>No!  Almost every major movie that comes out has a lot of anti-movie 
>sentiments lurking before it's premiere.  ONe example that I can 
>think of was the biggest money maker of all time *Titanic.*  I can 
>not tell 
>you how many people were dooming that movie before it's premiere.  
>Look what became of it.  When you have something as expected as this 
>you are going to get a ton of anti movie sentiment.  JKR is allowing 
>herself to be associated with ths movie, and that is enough for me.  
>The truth is all the inconsistencies aside, they are realitively 
>minor.  As long as the major plot hasn't been destroyed I don't see 
>why we should worry about it.  In my oppinion one of the major 
>feelings that I get out of the SS/PS is the virtues of friendship, 
>bravery and trust.  I Think as long as I still leave the theatre with 
>a feeling of satisfaction in relation to those virtues and that I can 
>recognize this movie as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 
>*meaning 
>the plot hasn't been destroyed* then Christopher Columbus did a 
>decent 
>job.

Titanic is a bad example to use with me, because I am sure I would 
hate it.  I saw only bits from the previews/reviewers' clips, but as 
with many movies, I thought, "If that dreck is the bit the moviemaker 
thinks is *best*, I'm in for a bad ride."  However, I take your point! 
 There's no judging a movie 'til it comes out.

The anti-movie sentiment in me, which I hasten to say is not enough to 
keep me from seeing SS--in fact, all the arguments in the world, wild 
horses, bankruptcy, a broken hip, and concrete overshoes wouldn't be 
enough to keep me from seeing SS--falls into two basic categories:

(1) concern that the movie will be very inaccurate, whether in terms 
of plot, character, theme, or "feel."  (Small inaccuracies, 
particularly in regard to plot, are okay--no movie can be 100% 
faithful to a book, still less to my internal images thereof.)  If 
this turned out to be the case with HP, I'd be disappointed but it 
wouldn't be a big deal.  I'd just have to devote the rest of my life 
to collaring people who saw the movie and shoving paperbacks into 
their hands, insisting "It's way different than the book!  You really 
need to read the book!  Here!  Read it tonight!"  But it wouldn't ruin 
the book for me; it would just seem like an opportunity lost, since I 
do love movies and I'd like this one to get it right.  From everything 
I've seen so far :guarded look:, it seems to be doing so, praises be 
(genuflects to the God of Cellulite).

(2) concern that the movie will supplant my own images of the book.  
This is where things get very individual.  If anyone thinks the movie 
will tarnish their experience of the books in any way, far be it from 
me to pressure him/her to see it.  The same goes with fanfic, or for 
that matter, reading this list.  I love these books so much that I 
would keenly feel the loss if anything got in the way, and I know that 
movies can get in the way because their images are so hard to erase 
from one's mind.  I'm not concerned for myself for *this* book and 
*this* movie, but I understand those who are.  If this is someone's 
concern, then how good the movie is is completely irrelevant (in 
fact, a good movie might stick better than a bad movie, so it would 
be worse).

Amy Z 

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