[HPFGU-OTChatter] Moved from Main - the Dark is rising series and movie

[Janette]

>
> Magpie:
> Them's fightin' words. That is the movie of The Dark is Rising, a
> book (and series) that came out well before Harry Potter. The main
> character is Will Stanton, my fictional love since the age of 11. In
> the book he's nothing like Harry, really (except for becoming a
> wizard at 11 and being English, I guess) but the movie has
> completely changed the story and Will. The Dark is Rising fandom has
> been watching developments on it with growing horror. Imagine if the
> HP movies had made Harry American, changed the Dursleys into nice
> people, changed Ron and Hermione into one person and made Harry bff
> with Snape. That's the kind of changes we're talking about.
>
>
> Alla:
>
> Oh dear, oh dear and oh dear again. See that is the kind of movie
> making that makes me so very angry sometimes at people who try to
> make the adaptations.
>
> I actually want to tell them - stick to at least heart of the story,
> or do not do it at all.
>
> If I want to see movie **based** on the book, I want to recognise
> the  book in it. Yes, I am wierd that way, sigh.
>
> No, I am not talking about shortening the story - I understand the
> necessity of that, I may grumble about it, but I understand, but WTF -
> the changes that I just read about on Wiki.
>
> I KNOW I am not seeing that movie, no matter how good in itself it
> can be.
>
> I love Will Stanton as well and NO, he is not like Harry at all
> indeed besides being English and becoming a wizard at eleven. Not
> even close.
>
>
> And he is NOT, he is NOT American, oh my goodness. Sorry, annoyed.
> But the whole story loses so much of sense. It is based on English
> folklor. On *English**. And I wonder is Bran still Pendragon? Is he
> even there?


montims:
Heartily agree.  I went to see the last HP movie with my husband and a
couple of friends, none of whom have read the books, though they tolerate my
obsession...  Anyway, they were asking who the blonde girl (Luna) was, and
had she just started at Hogwarts cos they'd never seen her before?  And what
was the point in adding another new character, just to feed apples to the
thestrals???   Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...


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