Movie Changing Book Perceptions

[catorman]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amber ?" <inviziblegirl at h...> wrote:
> So what about everybody else? Has the movie changed your mental 
images? Do 
> you now think of Daniel, Rupert and Emma when you think of the 
Trio? Or were 
> your original ideas left more or less alone?
> 
> ~Amber


I think that for a few short days after the film came out, the books 
were coloured for me by what I had seen in the film.  Thankfully, I 
am now back to my original imaginings.  I have to come clean and say 
that I hated the way Quidditch was done.  It just didn't work for me, 
and the hardest thing I have had to try and "forget" is the pitiful 
excuse for a commentry offered up by whoever it was playing Lee 
Jordan.  A great deal of comical opportunity was lost here - instead 
they went for "dramatic" stunts such as Oliver Wood and Angelina 
being knocked out, making the win supposedly more outstanding.  I 
wasn't really impressed - particularly with Harry's ridiculous 
surfing.  I also didn't really dig the whole Medieval type setting - 
I prefer my own interpretation which is very similar to the kind of 
high school seating stands kind of arrangement (strangely, 
considering I'm English).  It just seems to fit the plot much better.

I was quite happy with most of the actors except for Richard Harris - 
and I replay Stephen Fry over and over, as I think his Dumbledore 
voice is perfect.  Thankfully, I have managed to vanquish Richard 
Harris from my mind.  Harder to get rid of for me was the 
staircases.  Talking purely visually (as I have many, many gripes 
with the film which should really take me over to the movie list), I 
was very disappointed with the whole staircase arrangement.  The 
moving staircases didn't really work for me.  I know that they 
sometimes lead to places other than normal, and that their are trick 
steps etc. but I always imagined the move to happen mysteriously - 
not for them to start shifting when someone is actually on them.  I 
also thought that there is no way that Dumbledore would allow a 
staircase to shift to the out of bounds corridor.  

Finally, I loved Diagon Alley, although was disappointed with the 
Leaky Cauldron scene, and I am having to revisualise Hagrid's house.  
I have to keep repeating Hermione's classic line - "But Hagrid, you 
live in a wooden house!"

Catherine