Re: Views on converting books to film

"BubblyBabs" <ng@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> I draw mentally on the early Grandpre depictions of Harry,
>>> before Warner Brothers bought her copyrights and she began
>>> to draw him more like Daniel Radcliffe...
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>> As I was introduced to HP through watching the first film on a whim, I 
>> always considered it a kid's fad before that, I find it difficult not
to 
>> envision the characters as the actors, at least in the early works.
 >
> Same here...
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>> As the films diverged, character wise, from the books in COS and most 
>> noticibly in POA I began to think of the book characters as seperate
from 
>> their filmic counterparts though I always thought of them as visually 
>> similar.
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> Same here...
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>>  The Grandpre illustrations never sat right with me anyway, they always

>> felt like something a child would have drawn.
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> I agree...  I often wondered why such a big deal was made about her
images 
> in the books...  Nothing special about them at all...
> Babs


Same here - I don't understand it. Though I also dislike the UK children's

book covers too... grumble, whinge...

When I read the books, I usually hear the characters voices and see them
in 
my mind's eye. The exception is obviously Dd, where sometimes Michael
Gambon 
intrudes, and I have to reread the paragraph to remind myself how Richard 
Harris would have sounded, particularly in the later books. It's curious 
(and annoying!) how gradually Gambon intrudes more in HBP and DH, except
in 
the King's Cross scene where he doesn't stand a chance, it's pure Harris -
I 
guess I'm Harris's man, through and through :)

Bellatrix changed a bit once I'd seen her in OotP, but (probably contrary
to 
most people's views?) Helena Bonham Carter (over)acts it wonderfully - my 
mental images of the character immediately incor****ated HBC as a great 
improvement on my own interpretation!

DaveD