[HPforGrownups] Re: Steve's Canon versus Fanfic Post

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 16473

foxmoth at qnet.com wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at b...> wrote:
>
> > I don't WANT
> > anyone's interpretations to interfere.
> <snip> And I say again that THAT IS MY POINT.
> > I don't WANT to read someone else's interpretation.
>
> Poor Steve, what ARE you going to do when the movie comes out?

Well, I for one am considering the movie to be someone else's take on
the very same story that JKR has already told us. Like Aunt Elsie's
version of the time Steve fell off the roof, as opposed to Steve's. It's
the *same story,* at base.

The movie, like the audiobooks, is somebody else's version of an
existing story. [And I also don't like to see movies based on books I
have not read, and generally won't go see them until I've read the book
first. That way it's definitely a "version," not the "original," in my
mind. Like I get to see so many movies....yeah, right.]

Fanfiction is not a different version of an existing story. Fanfiction
takes characters from the story and makes new stories. Suggesting
scenarios and conversations and motivations and such based entirely on
stuff that isn't from the original.

And movie-wise, I won't really have a problem anyway, because the movie
will be visual images, and that's not what I generally get when I read.

--Amanda


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