Why did they make the film?
Saral Kaushik
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Kim Moss
have seen so far match my expectations really. plus there was a load of
money to be made from it, as the nation is going potter-mad. i bet this will
be the biggest and best film ever.
Christopher Hortin
>They shouldn't of made a film cos it will ruin our imagination,
I'm pretty sure my imagination will be intact regardless of the
film. I've been trying to tone down my imagination for years, and
haven't gotten anywhere.
>what do you all think, reply
>
OK!
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Terry Eden
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> Why did they make the film?
1) Money
2) So JKR could see Quidditch on the big screen
3) Money
4) Money
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27) errr...
28) That's it.
> They shouldn't of made a film cos it will ruin our imagination, what
> do you all think, reply
Personally, I thought the characters on the covers of the books were
nothing like how I imagined them. Similarly, some of the drawings in the
new Terry Pratchett book don't look like the ones in my mind. But it
doesn't ruin it - I'm not going to go into a sulk saying "My imagination
has been spoiled because I pictured XYZ as ABC" - that would be silly.
Terry
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Taras Young
>They shouldn't of made a film cos it will ruin our imagination, what
>do you all think, reply
Don't know about that; strangely enough every single thing in the film seems
to match how I imagined it! The one thing that didn't is that I saw a photo
from the film of the girls' toilets (where Moaning Myrtle lives), and the
cubicles were at the other end of the bathroom to how I'd imagined ;)
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moxie
I don't think it will ruin the books. I have found that after listening
to the books being read by Jim Dale, I sometimes hear his voice
when I am re-reading the book. Still it doesn't ruin it for me.
Moxie
RTJoby
>>do you all think, reply <
I like what you say but I think people can keep the two separated.
Everyone who have read the books want to experience the film visually.
I think the books have become so well-loved that people will all love the books
better because a movie can only show so much in so little time to where a book
goes in to a lot more detail.
So many people will be comparing the movie to the book-----but that is the fun
of it all.
Then there are those who do not even know what Harry Potter is all about yet
and will see the movie---then decide they liked it so much they want to start
reading the books.
At least we will all get to experience the excitement on a huge theater screen.
(Then probably go back home and re-read the books all over again. LOL !)
Jak
TracyM255
Unfortunately, the more I see of it, the worse I feel about it. From some of
the interviews I've read, it really seems as though they've got some of the
characters all wrong. I'll see it anyway, but I'm worried.
Frank Wustner
> They shouldn't of made a film cos it will ruin our imagination, what
> do you all think, reply
If a mere movie would ruin your imagination, then you need to invest in a
better imagination.
Personally, I doubt I'll have any trouble divorcing my own views from the
movie if and when they disagree.
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Tracy,
I'm hopefully optimistic, and dare I say excited, about the upcoming movie.
Even though most films, in the past, which were based on books, IMHO,
have completely let me down.
Perhaps this will help to ease your mind, though?
We've seen and we have heard J.K. state in an interview [1]:
"Q: How much control over
this do you have?
A: Very little. Well, I have as much as they are prepared to give me.
And I have to say they gave me far more than I ever dreamt they would.
And I really expected as much writers, of the, of the source material,
do expect I thought they'd sort of give me a courtesy meeting, pat me
on the head, and say 'see you at the premiere' and that's not true at
all. I've been invited back a lot..."
"Q: Will it ever match the pictures we have in our head from reading the
books?
A: No one's ever going to, that's the reality of films of books that
people love and it's happened countless times to me with books I love.
You're never going to hit it completely right. Because I'd have to hit
it right. And there would have to be a million different films, at
least to get close to all the people who have read the books. Um, I
think they will be pretty close to mine though because I've been giving
so much input, so, that's probably the other thing."
[1] I can't remember now which interviews I got these from, but almost all of the
transcripts out there can be found at http://hpgalleries.topcities.com/vaults/index.html.
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> to match how I imagined it! The one thing that didn't is that I saw a photo
> from the film of the girls' toilets (where Moaning Myrtle lives), and the
> cubicles were at the other end of the bathroom to how I'd imagined ;)
They match where I thought they were! :-)
(There are other things that "don't match" in similar ways though.)
And at first I was a bit dubious about Hermione. She didn't look
anything like I'd imagined, but the film one is growing on me.
It's hard to describe the one I had imagined; I do know that the
prominent teeth were there, as well as lots of hair, brown tending
towards dark red, sort of frizzy and "up" somehow. But, as I say, the
film one seems quite good.
Rugrat
Pudden
course it wasn't as good as the book..."
and thought he/she/it was a pretentious prat. Why make HP into a movie? Because
(I predict) it will be the biggest box office hit ever - it will probably smash
all the opening weekend records for cinema release. What businessman could
refuse? I look forward to the movie, as judging by the trailers the characters
are more or less how I would picture them, and that is the best bit about a
movie of a book - relating what you see to what you have read and envisaged.
Pudden
fans out there who found the discworld severely lacking after they started
reading the harry potter books. I read the firast twenty or so Discworlds and
avidly looked forward to the next. After reading Harry Potter, the discworld
magic seemed to disappear. I used to read discworld two or three times over
because they were so good, but Thief of Time and The truth were re-read simply
because they made no sense the first time round. Have the books become mundane
because JKR has surpassed Pratchetts ability to weave a good story, or is it
just that the series has outstayed its welcome???
Pudden
professor Quirrell, but apart from that, all are in order
Terry Eden
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I think it was just the fact that the last two TP books were a bit
lacklustre. The new one is fantastic. Check out my review on
http://tsw.org.uk
Terry
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Chris Share
It's just you. The DW books are still as good as ever - TT wasn't one
of the best, but better than quite a few of the others. ToT was really
good, my favourite of the last few. Until I got TLH, which is really
amazing. The illustrations are just the icing on the cake... Kidby does
the characters so well. Most of them are just like I imagined, and the
others are still very good.
The DW ones are still just as wonderful, and the HP are wonderful too
:)
chris
Richard Eney
Not to me. Discworld still gets better. But I read them for different
reasons than most people, I guess. I thought TT and ToT were wonderful.
Sure, the later books have fewer jokes per page, but the jokes are
subtler. Also Pratchett's been working with more serious themes. I can
deal with that. If I need a bigger laugh, I can reread the middle-period
books.
=Tamar
Karen
<matt...@NOSPAM-home.com> wrote:
> http://hpgalleries.topcities.com/vaults/index.html.
Please don't put periods at the end of the url, clicking it sends me to
the topcities 404 page. I have a hard time removing the period without
popping up a reply box that I can type and delete in, so I might as
well send you my gripe.
http://hpgalleries.topcities.com/vaults/index.html
What is this anyway? A mirror of hpgalleries.com?
Karen
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Karen
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I expect the book and the movie to be different. I hope that they are
of equal quality and entertainment value to me. Since I've read the
books so many times before movie stills were available, I think the
book in my head will always be the way I imagined it. It helps I
suppose to keep them distinct that D Ratcliff doesn't look at all like
Harry as described in the book, but that doesn't bother me either since
I care more about his acting than his looks.
I may modify some details in my mind, not everything in my mind is
fully fleshed out. Olivander's, for example, looks like a shoe store
in my head, maybe the movie can improve on that.
The real reason that I want to see the movie and the reason that I want
it to be different is clues. JKR has reviewed all the changes and
advised them on which ones were okay. She has also told the actors
playing Snape and Hagrid stuff about their characters that doesn't
appear in the books. [3] The way I see it, differences between the
book and the movie indicate to me how important a detail is to the
grand scheme, ie, Dudley and Vernon aren't blond in the movie so their
blondness in the book isn't terribly important, the only reason it was
mentioned was to emphasize that Harry didn't look at all like the rest
of the family.
[3] Please notice the little bit on following line, not sure why it
wraps there
TIME.com: The First Look At Harry
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101011105-181593-1,00.
html
Karen
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101011105-181593-1,00.
html
Fan
It might just be your newsreader, Karen. Mine tends to ignore little things like this and I put periods at the end of all my
sentences if not more out of habit than anything else. Sorry, but I probably won't remember half of the time not to do that,
anyway.
If you arrived at hpgalleries.topcities.com you arrived at the correct place. This is not a mirror, as far as I can ascertain, but
the actual site. It appears his/her pages are located all over the place on topcities, home.t-online.de, and whichever server his
domain is registered at.
Karen
<matt...@NOSPAM-home.com> wrote:
> If you arrived at hpgalleries.topcities.com you arrived at the correct place.
> This is not a mirror, as far as I can ascertain, but
> the actual site. It appears his/her pages are located all over the place on
> topcities, home.t-online.de, and whichever server his
> domain is registered at.
Okay, I see what he's done, he's relocated the pieces of his site to
lots of different servers as a solution to his webspace/bandwith/money
problem. Pop up ads as well. I don't mind. It is still the top HP
website out there.
Chris Share
>In article <xQID7.35584$IR4.20...@news1.denver1.co.home.com>, Fan
><matt...@NOSPAM-home.com> wrote:
>
>> If you arrived at hpgalleries.topcities.com you arrived at the correct place.
>> This is not a mirror, as far as I can ascertain, but
>> the actual site. It appears his/her pages are located all over the place on
>> topcities, home.t-online.de, and whichever server his
>> domain is registered at.
>
>Okay, I see what he's done, he's relocated the pieces of his site to
>lots of different servers as a solution to his webspace/bandwith/money
>problem. Pop up ads as well. I don't mind. It is still the top HP
>website out there.
>
>Karen
Just wondering, is there anyone out there with a decently fast
connection who could run a mirror of it? I would, except for the facts
that we get charged through the teeth for transatlantic stuff, and the
uni has now blocked the http port...
I coud work around that if necessary, and only people in the UK and
europe accessed it... but it'd be easier if there was someone not on
Janet. Don't some swedish people get 10meg internet at home?
You can only get cable or adsl here which has slow upload speeds - best
I've ever got is 20k/s from cable or 30k/s from adsl. Slowwwww. The
only ways to get decently fast access in the UK is stay in halls at uni
(like wot I is doing :) ) or some corporate stuff I don't really know
about.
chris
Andy Platt
rest of us can cope with seing someone else's interpretation without ruining
ours.
Andy.
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>connection who could run a mirror of it?
I'm not getting a new server til next spring, but when I do, you're perfectly
welcome to hop on!
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Jak
at all. I can use my imagination from the text alone, without somebody
giving me everything on a plate. in a book, you are in partnership with the
author, so you both work together to produce a picture rather than having
something given to you on a platter.
Discuss!
D
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JazzFiend4
I think its a good thing to do, this way with all the hype about the movie some
other people other then just fans will get out and watch the movie and end up
liking it and out and read the book afterwards. I'm a diehard Lord of The
Rings fan, and I also love the Harry Potter series, I think as both movies come
out it will be a great time for fantasy.
Kevin