I was just bummed out that this Thanksgiving/late fall was going to go by without the release & a good HP movie fix.

I haven’t paid close attention, but I suppose this means DH1 will move to summer ’10 and DH2 summer ’11 (?), thus ensuring 3 good tentpoles for the bean-counters & stockholders.

Not that there’s anything wrong with making lots of beans, mind you… just so long as the creative folks are actually getting some beans of their own & not just peanuts.

By the way, the difference between violence and nudity is that in film the people aren’t really dead, they’re not even hurt, but you just can’t fake naked. The way I was raised, I was playing Power Rangers and superman and fighting the nazis/communists since I could walk, and have watched violent movies throughout my childhood, not that we didn’t have restrictions on certain extremely violent movies with no redeeming elements. I’m not traumatized, violent, etc., nor are the many people I know who were raised that way. Anyways, I know not everyone agrees with me on that, but I wanted throw in my two cents.

Great interview with Daniel Radcliffe about Equus and Potter subjects (love the advice Gambon gives him about learning one’s lines..), Rupert Grint is so nervous about kissing Emma Watson (“she’s like my sister!”) that he has taken a part in a movie with a nude scene in it, and, better than the rest, a romp of an interview with Uncle Vernon, OBE….

I’m glad we have a movie thread going! If you want to read something about the books, why not “read the book” in NYC to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Harry’s arrival?

The writers’ strike was a worthy cause, and it was made clear early on that it would effect film as well as TV. There are some good books out there to fill up the time.

I don’t want to think how Luscious Badboy is filling up his time at the moment…

Thanks to everyone here for remaining normal and sane. It’s, unfortunately, not just the teens who think their lives are over because the movie has been moved to next summer. Some of the most vocal and vindictive commenters at TLC are adults, who I find even more disturbing than the teens. Even with the second clarifying statement from WB they are plotting revenge and vowing that nothing WB says can make any difference to them. It’s all a bit scary to read some of their comments. I really hope that it’s because they feel so anonymous on a forum and that they aren’t like that in real life.

And I agree with what everyone has said about Dan in the buff in DH. It was handled very well when he was in the bath in CS; I’m sure that they can manage to use that fog well. Having grown up with old movies (I’ll be 60 next month) when not much could be said or shown, I am a firm believer that people have good enough imaginations to fill in what’s missing.

Pat

I had an experience today that, to me, shows proof of this, for readers who love books, anyway. I’m a big Meg Cabot fan (author of The Princess Diaries and other YA and adult hysterical books. She wrote an Arthurian-riff book called Avalon High.

When I picked up the new sequel today at the library, imagine my astonishment to discover it was a Manga graphic novel. I’d had yet to read such a book and was interested in doing so (loved comic books as a kid).

While the art was incredible (not to mention the female bodies–straight out of male fantasy), I found the visuals very distracting. The meat of Cabot’s books is in the thought-life of the narrator and how she describes things. With minimal narrative and Manga visuals, I finished it in less than an hour and felt cheated of a real book, one in which I was absorbed and entertained and in which my imagination was engaged.

I’m not condemning graphic novels. They have their place and can serve as an introduction to reading. But, like you, I prefer to “integrate myself” into the story and this format prevented it. And, like you with films, I too prefer suggestion rather than blatancy.

I doubt we’ll see much nudity in DH. It passes so quickly in the book and is so minor, compared to the converstation with Dumbledore. But then, Yates wasted all that time, in OotP, on the (non-book) Minstry Howler…. I just hope he spends his time more wisely with DH.

Kitties are both wise and howlers…