[HPFGU-OTChatter] Neverending, Ordinary, HP Commercial

[Amber ?]

>From: "Tabouli" <tabouli at unite.com.au>
>
>The idea makes me nervous, especially after the job Hollywood did on the 
>NS.  I will never forgive them for the way they portrayed Falkor (he's a 
>slender, pearly white dragon, not a lion-faced muppet!), and chopping my 
>favorite scene from the book, which is the Perilin the Night Forest/Many 
>Coloured Death cycle.

I'm not Barbara, but I didn't mind the FIRST Neverending Story movie. (The 
second is a disgrace, IMNSHO) It actually stay decently with the first half 
of the story. And I think the movie was made in the 80's, correct? Not 
surprised Falkor looked like a muppet. When I was younger, I loved how he 
looked, but now in the sleek age of special effects, it does look ponderous, 
doesn't he?

>Do you have the NS in the original red and green printing, Barbara?  I 
> >managed to get one...

Wah! Tabouli! You have the red-green version? I remember when I read the 
book for the first time from the library(convinced all the while that the 
story really wouldn't end - I was horribly disappointed) it had the two 
color inks. I LOVED that. Alas, I can't find it now. I have a version that 
has the full-page chapter illustrations but not the red-green ink. *sighs*

>On children's fantasy, The Ordinary Princess is lovely,

You mean "The Ordinary Princess" by M.M. Kaye? Wow, I don't know anybody 
else who read that book. I still have my copy; love the illustrations in it.

On a completely different tangent, I saw a new Harry Potter commercial on TV 
tonight. In it, we actually get to hear Draco speak. More Hermione speaking, 
Harry speaking, Ron speaking. Nearly fell out of my chair, I was so happy!

~Amber

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