[HPforGrownups] Anti-movie sentiments

Ali Wildgoose diagonalley_ at hotmail.com
Wed Jul 18 01:24:04 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 22700

I wrote:
> > I'm sorry...it's just that, being a film student myself, it bothers me
> > a bit to see the craft unfairly judged.  Not all adaptions are bad.

And then Amanda wrote:
>We know. *Caius knows.* He just doesn't want to see *this* adaptation,
>and is making up in verbal potency the imbalance betwixt the "wow
>doesn't that look wonderful I can't wait" type posts, and those who have
>serious doubts and don't want to see it.
>
>I can relate to his position; I don't read fanfic. Any fanfic. Even
>understanding that fanfic can be wonderful and written by some of the
>wonderful, talented, creative, verbose souls on this list. I don't want
>my interpretation of JKR's characters "tainted" (for lack of a better
>word) by anyone else's, so I avoid fanfic (at least until the Great Work
>is complete and I shut the cover of book 7).

<snip>

>So don't get bent over Caius' comments. He do have a point, he do, and I
>can appreciate it (that, and I can understand him feeling *just* a hair
>outnumbered).

*grins sheepishly*

Actually, I'm not really bent over Caius' comments specifically, or even the 
decision not to see the movie for fear of contaminating an inner vision.  
(Which I can understand, though I've personally decided to take the risk)  
I've just been seeing a lot of talk about the movie being BAD, which is very 
different from just not wanting to watch it for personal reasons. With my 
friends, on other lists and websites, and even with the people who come to 
the Scholastic store where I work, there's been a fair ammount of anti-movie 
sentiment.

Cauis' comment just happend to be the one I responded to....no offense was 
meant. ^_^

Ali

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Harry Potter for Slightly Older Folk

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