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   Message 129,898 of 130,933   
   Wilford Dumont to Chan Welbourne   
   Re: Text v.s Screen; Stunting Or Enhanci   
   29 Jul 11 19:47:23   
   
   From: wilforddumont@gmail.net   
      
   On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:46:54 -0400, Chan Welbourne wrote:   
      
   > Sirius Black submitted this idea :   
   >> On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:43:14 -0400, Chan Welbourne wrote:   
   >   
   >>> 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   
   >   
   >> This was solved in the book but the film fucked it up as horribly as   
   >> eating fudge picked off asphalt. The Book said the Dark Mark on Black   
   >> Death Eaters was actually pink!   
   >   
   >> Dark Pink.   
   >   
   > I'm beginning to think this thread was a mistake. A Dark Mistake. B-)   
      
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