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   Message 129,884 of 130,933   
   Sirius Black to Chan Welbourne   
   Re: Text v.s Screen; Stunting Or Enhanci   
   29 Jul 11 19:14:08   
   
   From: Emailaaronainsley@countermail.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:05:27 -0400, Chan Welbourne wrote:   
      
   > How so many times do we see the Moaning Myrtles sob "the films and book   
   > storylines diverted dramatically"...or "movie fail; the book had it   
   > right and the movie fails over and over"...or "in the book they did   
   > this and that and the film failed by portraying that as"...or "here is   
   > where the movie really failed me in telling the *real* story...or "why   
   > couldn't they do it like the book and say this or do that"...or "why do   
   > they always sacrificed My book to keep the action up"...or "why can't   
   > the film be as romantic as the book"...or "total epic movie fail, the   
   > book was sooooooo much more dramatic"... or "one day someone will   
   > remake those darn crappy movies into something more to my liking, the   
   > Book!...   
   >   
   > ...and on and on and on in a perpetual state of elementary whine. :-Z   
      
   lol   
      
   > It makes no matter how often you tell these moaners that the film is an   
   > *adaptation* of the book, that the author (Rowling) had severe critical   
   > oversight to the *adaptation* - it pleased her but not you, who cares?   
   > - or that film simply cannot, will not, nor can it be made to *be the   
   > book*.   
      
   Cruel show, what else have they got to do after a decade of over   
   analyzing books published, to be published and yet to be published.   
   Superficial people do superficial things, you know, the Mark Of the   
   Idiot - doing the same thing over and over again and coming out with   
   the same results.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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