[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: DD or Gangalf - who is greater?

[Kathryn Lambert]

Geoff Bannister <gbannister10 at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:          --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Janette <jnferr at ...> wrote:
>
> On Nov 28, 2007 1:05 PM, Tonks <tonks_op at ...> wrote:
> 
> > So THIS is how we got stuck with Gambon.
> >
> >
> > http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/mckellen%20turned%20down%
> > 20less%20superior%20harry%20potter%20role_1051645
> >
> > I still wish they had tried harder to get someone else.
> >
> > Tonks_op
> 
> 
> montims:
> whoever they had got would still be working with the same script, the same
> costume designer and the same director, so I don't think the performance
> would have been that much different.
>

Geoff:
Maybe, but I think each character brings something of their own to a part. 
Quite frankly, I've never liked Michael Gambon in the part. He seems too 
bullish for Dumbledore. OK, maybe that's a reaction to him following 
Richard Harris but in the books, Dumbledore comes over as rather 
low-key even in confrontational situations - a polar opposite to Gambon.

But that's just my gut reaction. Others will doubtless disagree. They're 
bound to - this is HPFGU after all.
:-)
   
  ***Katie: I never liked Harris or Gambon. They're neither merry enough nor funny enough to me to be DD, and I agree that Gambon is far too aggressive. I'm not sure who would have made a good DD, but I enjoyed Ian McKellan's twinkley, cheery Gandalf and I hoped to find the same merriness in DD. 
   
  I find film version of DD the least like the book character out of all the main characters. Film Harry is also lacking in some of the goofiness I find in book Harry...but I can live with it. Film DD is more of a disappointment to me. Katie


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