[HPforGrownups] Re: Unless...

[Danika Saal]

No: HPFGUIDX 21853




>From: "Caius Marcius" <coriolan at worldnet.att.net>
>Reply-To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Unless...
>Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 01:29:44 -0000
>
>--- In HPforGrownups at y..., rodeodangerqueen at y... wrote:
> > Unless they deviate from the main ideas in the books to a
> > significant...and I REPEAT....SIGNIFICANT....extent...I'm just
>going
> > to go and enjoy the movie unless the movie ITSELF is not good.
>Just
> > my two cents.
>
>I just *love* the idea of closing down Hogwarts the educational
>facility and reopening it as a Muggles Theme Park ("Not Just for the
>Literate Anymore!").  I just get goose pimples imagining Harry Potter
>as the Warner Brothers house-elf. It will be so thrilling to use the
>TM symbol every time we type Quidditch, Platform Nine 3/4, or Sorting
>Hat.  Hopefully, the movie version will correct the sentimental JKR
>and put Harry in Slytherin House, where WB so clearly feels their elf
>belongs.
>
>HP the Motion Picture will stand in relation to the Canon where Space
>Jam the Motion Picture stands in relation to the Termite Terrace (if
>you have the wit to concieve me).
>
>...doesn't the fact that Book Five is being significantly delayed
>because of this dreadful cinematographication of HP scare the holy
>You-Know-What of anyone besides me?  The late novelist Jerzy Kosinski
>said that when he was involved in the filming of his novel Being
>There,  he felt his creative novelistic powers being literaly drained
>from his psyche (like cheerful thoughts in the presence of a
>Dementor). And Kosinski went through a hell of a lot rougher
>experiences than (thank goodness!) JKR or you or I will ever be
>compelled to meet.
>
>    - CMC (who likes movies, but likes books better)
>


Well, if you are right about JK's ideas being zapped by the folly of cinema, 
we need only notify her of this wonderful group and i am CERTAIN that she 
will find more than enough inspiration here!!

WE ROCK!!!!!!

Go Chudley Cannons!!!

Danika Longbottom

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