[HPforGrownups] Re: Perceptions

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 6349

coriolan at worldnet.att.net wrote:

> Let's hope the
> movie is awful and perishes at the boxoffice: because the better the
> movie, the more omnipotent the cultural imperialism (Can anyone read
> Baum's Oz series without falling back on Garland/Fleming imagery?).

Well, maybe, but I'm still a kid at heart, and I'm waiting hopefully for a
GOOD movie.  Maybe even a great one.

Ya gotta be an optimist, sometimes.

> We will no longer be permitted to imagine Snape as we please - we
> will be compelled to fantasize about Alan Rickman, and draw
> irrelevant comparisons to Pride and Prejudice and Die Hard.

Ah, I think that's Sense and Sensibility and Die Hard.  If you don't mind my
niggling.

Cheers,
Peg