[HPFGU-OTChatter] Books to movies to books was Re: What should we do next?.

[Stephen Vandecasteele]

--- On Mon, 1/19/09, eggplant107 <eggplant107 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: eggplant107 <eggplant107 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Books to movies to books was Re: What should we do next?.
> To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, January 19, 2009, 4:01 PM
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>             Sometimes the movie can be even better than
> the book. The Godfather
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> book was just another (slightly better that average)
> potboiler, but
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> the movie was one of the greatest of the 20'Th century.
> Much more
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> recently the book "The prestige" was pretty good
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> The Potter movies certainly weren't better than the
> books, but they
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> were far better than we had any reason to suppose; they
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> easily been dreadful but they weren't, probably because
> JKR, if not
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> veto power at least had some control over them.  The movie
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> that it would devastate the box-office if she said
> "the new Harry
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> Potter movie is terrible and I hope all my fans do not see
> it"; so
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> they want to keep her happy. 
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> Eggplant     

SV Now

As good as JKR may or may may not be I find it difficult to believe that the books were as good as the movies. With the movies you can identify with one charactor or another in the sense that you can't by reading the books imo.