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|    Chan Welbourne to All    |
|    Re: Text v.s Screen; Stunting Or Enhanci    |
|    29 Jul 11 19:43:14    |
      From: bleablah@mume.invalid              Wilford Dumont expressed precisely :       > On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:14:08 -0400, Sirius Black wrote:              >> 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.              > Is that a Dark Mark tattoo and all?              The film did a terrible job of showing the Dark Mar, the book was       waaaaaaaaaaay better. Notice how the film never showed the Dark Mark on       the black Death eaters? :D :D :D              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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