Re: Views on converting books to film

DaveD <davedn1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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:>> <snip>
:>>> 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...
:>>
:>> 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...
:>
:>> 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.
:>
:> Same here...
:>
:>>  The Grandpre illustrations never sat right with me anyway, they
always 
:>> felt like something a child would have drawn.
:>
:> 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...

They were what I was first given to work with.
I don't think them artistically fantastic...but
they gibe better with my mind than Daniel Radcliffe's
face and especially his smile.
 
: 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

Bellatrix is Carolyn-Jones-as-Morticia-Addams,gone nutso...full stop.

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