Harry Potter- round 6-who's ready?

[innerSpaceman]

The one after the GoF spat out Harry's name.


I agree it was the only thing I've seen Gambon do that seemed totally out of character, as that character was written in the books.


Why not have JK Rowling do all the voices for an animated version drawn by her hand if everything must adhere to what she wrote?



There were many a LotR quibble that things weren't exactly as written by J.R.R. Tolkien. What a bunch of rubbish masquerading as criticism.


Either things suck or excel on their own merits or they don't. I happen to like most of the Harry Potter film changes, and I'm not happy with others.


I lean towards the not happy side on Gambon's outburst. Sigh, it seemed out of character to me.

Not anything remotedly approaching, say, Faramir out of character. So as a filmic outrage to the memory of Dumbledore, I'd put Gambon's departure from canon in the mildly annoying category. But he did not write that exchange, and he's not personally at fault for playing it as written.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Why not have JK Rowling do all the voices for an animated version drawn by her hand if everything must adhere to what she wrote?

Don't know if this is pointed at me, but I'll respond.

All I ever expect of a good film adaptation is that the spirit of the characters and the story are maintained. I was hoping that they would maintain the spirit of Hermione by keeping her mousy in every day situations. When she comes on screen looking like she spent 2 hours in hair, makeup and wardrobe, it means she's a totally different character. When Ron's only lines involve how scared he is about everything, it's hard to understand why Harry likes him and why we should like him. When Dumbledore loses it like Bill O'Reilly it means he's no longer the rock of wisdom and peace that these stories require.

I'm all for changes in story that make a book into a movie. But when you cut out the things that make the characters work, it's game over for me.