[HPforGrownups] Expanded Potter stories

[Karen Lewellen]

No: HPFGUIDX 193326

Now...this I understand.
Indeed Rowling did not fill out the fantastic beast universe in the books, 
almost no reference to magical anything in North America for example. 
Although  we get some elements in the whole life and lies of Albus 
Dumbledore story,  of his relationships.
I recall Rowling  saying more than once that Harry walked into her head 
fully formed etc.
Actually, does anyone remember if there  was a magical theory  textbook, I 
recall it from a list, but no magical theory classes.
Anyway, the  head of Warner Brothers is the one who talked Rowling into the 
fantastic beasts films,  with my honestly feeling she hopes to bridge the 
gap between the movies and her print preferring audiences with the book 
editions   of the screenplays, she even uses an illustrator for them.
*however* as you wisely point out here, not only is that sort of hard to 
do,   we have the amazing book series where we engaged in using our 
imaginations, so   trying to create the same experience  after 8 films 
that did not reflect the books in a quality way  much of  the time, 
using a  screenplay presents challenges  for lots of people.
I respect that Rowling  likely wanted to find a different method of 
telling these stories, instead of just writing more books, but I can 
respect  how for some the continuity is just not the same.

Kare



On Sat, 4 May 2019, Sandra Lynn cresorchid at gmail.com [HPforGrownups] wrote:

> I don't know what others mean, but I feel as though she never really
> thought out the Fantastic Beasts movie series while writing the original
> series. She came back to do so because HP has been such a tremendous hit.
> Which is fine. But it *feels *different.
>
> When she began the original HP series, she had a rough outline of all the
> major points from the beginning. I don't believe she had in mind the
> history of Grindelwald and that whole phase of wizarding world history,
> much less the particulars for specific people beyond Dumbledore versus
> Grindelwald, and that they had started out as friends, possibly (likely)
> even lovers. So going back, she is trying to create a feeling of
> continuity, of tying the two series together through certain characters and
> from asides that occurred in the original series referring back to this
> time period. But it doesn't fit as well.
>
> She also put so much time, energy, and soul into the original series that
> it is hard, if not impossible, to live up to the original. Or maybe we
> expect even more of her now and our expectations are unrealistic (which is
> a distinct possibility). But even if it is our impossible expectations, it
> doesn't make the experience we have watching the movies the same as it was
> for many of us first reading the original series in books.
>
> Crescent
>
> On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 8:00 AM Karen Lewellen klewellen at shellworld.net
> [HPforGrownups] <HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Again, I am afraid I do not understand the comment.
>> Jo is writing these works. Therefore Jo is outlining the stories in
>> order to write these works...assuming she used an outline for the books.
>> In fact there are five outlines for the fantastic beast screenplays, five
>> screenplays for the films to come.
>> So, can you clarify or document objectively that Jo is using a different
>> writing process then she did before?
>> What has she said that she is doing differently to build this world then
>> she did the first time?
>> You can claim that you do not personally like the works, but claiming that
>> they are neither cannon or well constructed with basis seems harder.
>>
>> Kare
>>
>> On Thu, 2 May 2019, jcutroni at yahoo.com [HPforGrownups] wrote:
>>
>>> This is what I was talking about when I posted the original message - it
>> feels like the story is just being filled in and the go along, which is way
>> different that was Jo outlined (and wrote to some extent) for the books.
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
>>
>>
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