[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: What should we do next?

[Stephen Vandecasteele]

--- On Sun, 1/18/09, sistermagpie <sistermagpie at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: sistermagpie <sistermagpie at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: What should we do next?
> To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, January 18, 2009, 11:40 AM
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> > Geoff: 
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> > > > Which raises the rather perplexing question
> - how do you
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> > > > view the books then when they  are the
> primary sources for the
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> > Steve Van: 
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> > > I couldn't disagree more. The movies are
> merely based on the 
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> books as stated in the 
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> > credits of each movie. As for the books themselves, I
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> > reading them so I have no opinion of them whatsoever.
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> > Geoff:
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> > That really isn't logical. Whether you like a book
> or not, if 
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> > a film is based on a book, using the characters and
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> > story line, then the book has got to be the primary
> source. 
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> > Otherwise, why use the name of the book?
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> > You might just as well give the film a different name
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> > write a completely different story - although you
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> Magpie:
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> Many adaptations do do that, though. I think what Steve V.
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> saying is just that the movies stand on their own. Surely
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> reading 
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> the book. You shouldn't need to do both. Though
> they're both for 
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> entertainment.

Steve Van now,

I don't hold the opinion that one must read the HP Books in order to enjoy the movies. As Magpie put and did so well I do believe the movies stand on their own as far as entertainment goes for me.

Steve who loves movies.