[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Michael Gambon doesn't see any point on reading the books????

[Katherine Coble]

On Nov 20, 2005, at 2:20 PM, Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) wrote:

> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, kemper mentor wrote:
>
> <<   I would rather raly for a solution than a gripe.
> What about Ian McKellen as Dumbledore?  I pictured him even before
> LotR and was disappointed with Harris' selection for the role. >>
>
> I always wanted Ian McKellen for the part,

> Gandalf was real and Harris AND Gambon were just acting, is only one
> of the many reasons why 'the other movie' (FOTR) was so much better
> than 'our movie' (HP&SS). At least the second two HP movies were
> better than the pathetic first two. As Kloves was the script writer
> for all four, it is clear that the deficiencies of the first two were
> not the fault of the script, but of the director.
>

K:  I think there are several reasons that MacKellen won't take it, not 
the least of which
is that he doesn't want to be playing wizards forever.  I still think, 
in the still-small-voice part of me that a much better choice (than 
that a$$, Gambon)  would be Pete Postlethwaite.    He's British, and he 
can do patrician concern very well--just rent "In The Name Of The 
Father" and you'll see what I mean.
  And yes, I think that Chris Columbus was not a good directing choice 
for the first two.   I'd prefer that they get directors who've spent 
time in a British boarding school.  Newell's work on this film was 
obviously informed by his own experience.   Yeah, I know not every 
director has to experience the setting of his film (George Lucas has 
never been in space, and Speilberg has never seen a dinosaur), but in a 
case where it is possible and where someone (Newell) has obviously 
brought his own experience to bear, then I say go for it.

Regardless, I'm just eager to see Gambon go.  His treatment of all the 
students was AWFUL and completely non-canonical