HP - The Movie O.S.T

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 10458

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Ffion Miles" <ffionmiles at h...> 
wrote:
"Really?  Robbie Williams is going to do the soundtrack?
I'm not really sure about that, since there's nothing really about 
pop music or TV or anything in the Hogwarts world - which jsut sort of 
makes it  timeless. Much as I adore Robbie completely, I really don't 
know if any songwords could really get into the spirit of HP - it's 
just too - modern and would make it dated - although maybe Robbie 
could sing the Sorting Hat song!"

As far as I know John Williams is doing the soundtrack. Maybe Robbie 
Williams [I don't know him] is doing songs for it.  Studios feel 
compelled to plug in inane pop songs that will get airplay, and in the 
US at least, radio formats are very narrow. Nothing different at all 
gets played.

I agree completely about the timeless and other-world nature of the 
Hogwarts world, but I doubt Warner Brothers cares much about what fits 
this material.

Ffion: "Also, does anyone know if Robbie Coltraine is doing Hagrid in 
his own  Scottish acent?  That'd be weird since, having listened to HP 
read by Stephen Fry, he's made him sort of Cornish, which suits him."

Help us Yanks out here.  I read some time ago in a posting that 
Stephen Fry did Hagrid in a "Dorset accent." Is that similar to a 
Cornish accent? I wish you could hear Jim Dale's Hagrid and compare 
them. (It's be nice to get permission from Bloomsbury to post a couple 
of minutes of Fry to the Files section in MP3, and likewise from 
Scholastic for Dale, especially of the same passage)