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In Reply to: So it's too much like the book - is that the complaint? posted by img on November 15, 2001 at 09:33:23:
So basically that whole article boils down to the fact that the article's author thought the movie is too much like the book. That's the first time I've ever heard someone make that complaint.It sounds like Mr. Rainer was just itching to hate this movie, but couldn't find anything to legitimately complain about.
Although I do admit that it would have been fantastic if they had let Terry Gilliam do this movie - a la Time Bandits and Baron Munchausen.
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It would be so dark nobody would watch it. Certain film critics would be thrilled, of course. Taking my 9 year Pottermaniac tommorrow....
Rather, too LITERAL. There's a big difference. It's an accepted fact that a play, transferred to the screen literally, induces claustrophobia. It must be *opened up*. Likewise a book.Incidentally, a fine example of stage/screen transfer was Donald Margulies' "Dinner with Friends" on HBO. This Pulitzer-prize-winning play was transcendant on television. And then Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five" actually worked far better as a movie that as a novel, IMO. So it goes.
No, the conflict onscreen in HP, according to the writer, is between skilled craftmanship, which was not lacking, and magic.
clark
...if they were hung with a new rope.Tom §.
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