DD or Gangalf - who is greater?

[susanmcgee48176]

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> > > I still wish they had tried harder to get someone else.
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> > > Tonks_op
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> > 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.
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> 
> 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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I agree; I agree.

I thought Richard Harris was FAR better than Gambon....but I also 
agree with whomever said it was the script writer, and the costume 
designer...look at those gorgeous wonderful costumes in movie 1 and 2 
(for DD - back to my Scarlet Pimpernel costumes).....

Harris had a LITTLE twinkle in his eye, but he was never given the 
great lines (nitwit! blubber! oddment! tweak!)...so that he could be 
the true DD...

and what's the deal with Gambon as DD SHOUTING at Harry? SHOUTING at 
the students..looking uncertain when confronted by Umbrage.....

One of the wonderful things about DD in the books is his centered 
smiling courtesy even while being (almost) arrested by the Fudge, or 
being sacked by the Governors....or having a stroll with Tom Riddle...
We only hear him scared when HP was in big danger, we hear him 
pleading with SS to kill him, otherwise, he's the epitome of 
serenity...

Gambon works the least well of all the adult characters for 
me..PARTICULARLY compared with Alan Rickman, and Maggie Smith, or 
Robbie Coltrane!

Susan