[HPforGrownups] Horribly dissapointed

[Heidi Henshaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 21697




>From: "Meaker Domus Ludus"

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>
>I really hope no one here will be horribly disappointed (and I don't doubt
>everyone will <G>) when Hollywood (a collective Hollywood, but the WB is
>among the worst) manages to take this movie and screw it up so bad it is
>hardly recognizable.
>
>Books do not make good movies.  Period.  I give you The two attempts at the
>Lord of the Rings as glaring examples of what can happen when Horrorwood
>decides to put a book on film.  Examples in HP movie are things like:
>
>Hagrid is twice the height of a normal man.  The actor is not.  Lots of
>visual stunts will be missed.
>
>Ghosts.  Theoretically they should be computer animated, unless they can
>find a way for people to stand in the actor portraying him when they get to
>CoS.
>
>The broomstick.  Came in a box.  Period.  Cope.  Fix it.  It was a big deal
>in the book.
>
>The Human Mind <G>.  I like the actor they have for Snape, but he's just 
>too
>full in the face and not quite tall enough.  That's the Snape in my mind.
>Their Ron is not the same (too short, IMO they should have gone for an
>older, taller but younger looking actor) the Hagrid (also too short) and
>Dumbledore looks like a thousand Merlins before him.  And their
>Hermione!!!!!!!  GODS grant me patience!!
>
>I take my hat off, however, to Rowling who gave the thumbs down to 
>Speilberg
>who would have made a movie worthy of throwing rotten eggs at, I have NO
>doubt.  He owuld have moved the story to HIS audience -- iow, Americans.
>And it is NOT an american movie.  The more aimed towards Americans it is,
>the less I like it (and *I* am American).
>
>They also do a pretty good job pronouncing their Latin (I will wait and see
>how they pronounce Severus before I'm satisfied)
>
>Well, I took my turn, I'm happy.
>

In my opion you are wrong when you say that books do not make good 
movies....Jaws, Murder on the Orient Express,To Kill a Mockingbird and the 
Colour Purple, which was done by Steven Spielburg made excellent movies.  
The problem with making books into movies is that you are never going to be 
able to satisify everyone who has ever read the book. Since reading books 
involves our imaginations everyone interpretes the characters differently.  
Also you are never going to be able to make something exactly like the book 
because it is impossible, the human imagination can go anywhere but 
Hollywood can't.  Also I am not going to base a feature length movie on the 
8 minutes of previews that I have seen so far.
Heidi. H.
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