pronunciations

[heidi tandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 6810

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Michelle Apostolides" 
<michelleapostolides at l...> wrote:
> Ok, let's get one thing clear. Please bear in mind that even though 
Jim
> Dale is a Brit, his reading is that of a pretentious prat 
overacting.  I
> don't mind which way Voldemort is pronounced. But please, please do 
not
> take Jim Dale's readings as gospel. If you get a chance, listen to
> Stephen Fry. Much wittier and gives a better sense to the whole 
thing.
> 
> By the way , this is just my opinion !!

The last thing I would ever want to do is slam someone's opinion - we 
all have our own personal ways of responding to what we read & what 
we hear - but I have to take serious issue with Michelle's contention 
here about Jim Dale (who I have been a fan of ever since his first 
dragon-related production, as the evil snake oil salesman in Pete's 
Dragon (I admit, I was 6 at the time, and I thought he was very 
scary, but still....)
I definitely don't think he's overacting, or pretentious, or a prat. 
I personally, actually, believe that his versions of the books (other 
than the whinyness he puts in Hermione's voice in book1, which is 
completely gone by Book 4) are more fun to listen to than Stephen Fry 
- and I have books 1 & 3 by both (has a Fry version of GoF come out 
yet anyway?). He makes it more like a radio show by doing more 
"pronounced" voices (and by that I mean he does each character in a 
voice which is completely different than every other character) PLUS 
Jim Dale sings the sorting hat songs, while Stephen Fry doesn't, and 
that makes then even more perfect, IMHO.  
Nothing against Stephen Fry - I have actually read some of his books 
(the ones he's written, not just read on tape) and I have liked a 
number of his movies (especially IQ, but that was for reasons having 
nothing to do with him & having everything to do with that being what 
the man I eventually married & I saw on our first movie date) - I 
just happen to pref the Jim Dale recordings.