Never again

[kneasy]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, sean dwyer <ewe2 at a...> wrote:
> 
> Considering the apparent input JKR has has had in each and every movie so far,
> I don't think you can excuse her from complicity, particularly in the latest
> 'travesty'. And she gets a good cut from the movies+merchandise too. She isn't
> the innocent bystander at all. Having said that, the movies have their place.
> Yes it's a milk, what did you expect from this culture? The fans are just as
> complicit, they watch the movies, buy the DVDs and the merchandise. I
> personally cannot stand Harry Potter Lego, but I know adults who collect it.
> One shrugs ones shoulders and waits for the next installment.
> 

I'm wondering just how much input she did have. An advisor, certainly,
but I can't help remembering she signed contracts with Warners before
the tidal wave really hit.

Same with merchandising. She freely admitted in the Paxman interview
that she couldn't get the contracts she wanted, she didn't have enough
leverage at the time. She doesn't even own copyright to the name 'Harry
Potter' - Warners does. Obviously she won't (or is unable) to stand up 
and make criticisms of the film; that'd cause complications she can well 
do without. 

But anyway, what she may or may not think of the film is obviously 
irrelevant to my view  of it. I felt badly let down. I really shouldn't
have watched it; I never intended too, not because I didn't like the first
two, but because the images I'd formed of the book characters were being
usurped by the reality of the film characters. But replete with wine and
food at a friends house, the DVD was produced with a flourish and
we all settled down to enjoy it. Except we didn't. By majority vote.
3 said it was a stinker, 1 said it was OK but didn't match the hype
and 2 'quite' liked it. All adults BTW.

Still, as one author is reported to have said when reproached for
selling film rights to his book to schlock merchants -  "They can't 
ruin the book, they can only ruin the film."

Kneasy