Movie vs. audiobook

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 12315

"B.K. DeLong" wrote:

> I dunno. Although my Sirius was "formed" by the voice Jim Dale used
> for him and I see him as a little older with scruffier hair and an
> unshaven beard.

Aha! This illustrates something I've wondered about. Are all of you who
swear you won't see the movie, based on the objection that it will mess
up the book for you, out there listening to audio interpretations?
Because audiobooks do the same thing you all fear the movie will do,
i.e., color your interpretations of it.

Especially Jim Dale, who "performs" the book instead of simply reading
it. [To a lesser degree, admittedly, but in this case, smaller things
tend to be more ineradicable, because they slide in on a subliminal
level, not as noticable as movie-level changes.]

This sort of feeds into the whole fanfic thing; I won't read any until
after the whole series is done, because I don't want confusion over
little things. I depend a lot on instinct ("I know I read that
somewhere, it was in book X") and if little, tiny, hard-to-detect things
sneak in on me from fanfic, I will remember the detail more than I will
remember the source.

The movie will be big, its departures will be noticeable, it will be an
entity in itself and easy to compartmentalize as such; I don't have as
much problem with the movie coloring how I see the characters, as I do
with an audio interpretation. But the Jim Dale audiobooks seem the same
as canon to many, from what I've read. Thoughts?

--Amanda


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