[HPforGrownups] Re: Spielberg on Potter

[Juan Carlos De La Cruz]

No: HPFGUIDX 26271

On Date Tuesday 18 September 2001 02:14, You Wrote:
> > > Steven Spielberg didn't want to direct the first Harry Potter
> > FINDER'S KEEPERS, LOSERS WEEPERS!!
>  To my innocent mind the books are too similar for this to
> happen.


                 IMHO I wouldn't even say "the first one" being "less" 
esoteric or magical as "The third one". Heck, in fact I can't even, most of 
the time, split one from the other (Possibly since I've read the four of them 
in a row, night after night, in only 4 days... I still keep the whole plot as 
a single thing on my mind).

          I don't think there is really a difference on the way things are 
being spotted up in between them. I only find the story getting deeper as you 
get deeper into it, but not as it would be so much different in between 
themselves as to being picky on which one is "more" or "Less" magical...


           I Love movies. I'm a movie collector myself, I Love both Spielberg 
and Columbus's work, but I have deep faith on JK's criteria, and if I have to 
be true to myself, I find somehow all this Spielberg fuss about HP a little 
bit "Opportunistic".  I certainly hope the wizard who started his big thing 
with such a nice story as "THX..." won't end up in a "Battle of the egos", 
and CERTAINLY NOT around HP. Okay, dunno if the point is to make Harry look 
like a "Freudian Poster Boy" (But I have to admit I am still thinking about 
the hidden sex-appeal on Draco Malfoy... -chuckles!-) but I think we are 
talking about totally different kinds of "Magic" on screen. After all, not 
every wizard gets the same result on the same spell, as well as not every 
musician sounds the same on the same song...

IMHO, here my 2 galleons. :)

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Juan Carlos De La Cruz.
DeGoPro.com General Manager.
SysOp.Tech and Op Dept.
IFX Networks Venezuela

Profesionnal Musician and Composer.
Proud Hogwarts student at Ravenclaw.

"Ah, music," Dumbledore said, wiping his eyes.  "A magic beyond all we do
here!"
          -HP and the Sorcerer's Stone