Actors in HP movies

[doddiemoemoe]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "bbkkyy55" <bbkkyy55 at y...> 
wrote:
> Your discussion re Christian Bale/Gary Oldman reminded me of my 
> problems with POA.  BTW "Batman Begins" was good.  The story was 
done 
> thoroughly and well.  Good stories seem to go by the wayside these 
> days.  What are the writers doing?  IMO.
> 
> Anyway, I had a whole lot of trouble with David Thewlis as Lupin.  

(snipety snip-snip)

I agree with you, my daughter too...We were expecting POA movie to 
give us more of the interrelationships between Harry, Ron and 
Hermione, since so much of the wizarding world had been exposed in 
films 1 and 2...and we knew a great deal more of the WW would be 
exposed in movie #4(GOF)...I think this may have been a bigger 
disappointment...(esp. since what they did show of Ron and 
Hermione's relationship was them "grabbing hands etc.) More 
realistic and more likely would be bickering/arguing, or even 
teasing...just makes no sense...

We didn't mind the ticking clock...but if the disagreement had been 
played out between ron and hermione then the entire buckbeack 
scenario would have been more believeable!

I think GOF will probably be the best HP film yet...and OOP will 
most likely be the worse...because in OOP so much is Harry's 
interpersonal relations!

I just think that any director making a HP movie should at the very 
least read the book.. If Alfonso had read the book...I think a movie 
of a slightly different flavor would have been made; and we as avid 
readers see this. HP is a character driven story; because we do not 
know the entire plot until the end.. 

  Even in a movie one must move forward character development.(hence 
in LOR trilogy the battle scenes were absolutely spectacular in move 
2 and again before the end of the third movie....but we still see 
excellent character development(not OUTSTANDING...but excellent 
nevertheless)...esp. w/smegol..We didn't get as much from the LOR 
trilogy as the war became worse and more battles occurred! (Yet, we 
had to see the battles to understand what "all the fuss" was about; 
and why Frodo was the only ONE to do what needed to be done...the 
ones who had the least to lose because they lived for hundreds if 
not thousands of years protected by those who protected the Hobbits)

My elder daughter couldn't wait to see POA...she was entirely 
disappointed in it..Her quote was: "I didn't learn anything more 
about Harry and friends...nor even the villains..." She really 
appreciated the fact that in the end Ron, Harry, and Hermione came 
together to help Hagrid out."  I think this is entirely important to 
the plot/theme/characterization of the book and it's characters.

Perhaps the studio/director/JK did this on purpose so more folks 
would read the book...I have five children...only one has read all 
of the books and although I let my children see movies one or two 
w/o reading the books...I do not think that any of them would want 
to read POA after seeing the movie..

My daughter and I read the book again before going to the movie...It 
was very disappointing to us..  I hate going to see a movie and not 
getting at least 1/2 the buzz I had reading the book.  Actually, for 
me, I used to read all of the books in the series all the time...but 
after the movie POA... I skip over POA more often than not...

This means that the movie dampened the book for me...and that's 
pretty bad!!!Extremely bad actually, since I've read all books but 
POA well into double digits..

DD
(who wishes, at the very least...if they are not hiring non-british 
folk to act in the movie...then they should apply it to the rest of 
the filming staff...I don't want George Lucas, Speilberg, or Spike 
Lee to direct these movies either. I want to see something 
different!)