OT: Harry Potter (was Re: Yet Another cabe Pretty Printer)

[Ward Griffiths]

On Thursday 24 June 2004 05:38 pm, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> "Jay R. Ashworth" wrote:
> [...]
>
> > I suspect I'm going to be cleaning up the rest of my documentor
> > (that's kind of like dementor, for you Potter fans :-) package over
> > the next few weeks...
>
> We took the kids to see The Prisoner of Azkaban last weekend.  They
> loved it.  (Of course, this being the first time I've seen an HP
> movie after having read the book, I can see just how much detail was
> taken out of the movie version.  It's still a good movie, though.  It
> would have to be a long TV miniseries to get everything from the
> book.)

That's the case with any adaptation from book to film.  The medium won't 
pass the detail.  Hell, _Shogun_ left out a lot of detail as a 12-hour 
miniseries.  Jim Blish packed adaptations of the original Star Trek 
scripts about 6-7 per book, translating each hour episode to a short 
story.

> There's a theater in this area showing it in IMAX.
>
> So, what is the proper abbreviation?  "HP3"?  "HP:TPoA"?

Dunno how the fans of the movie vs the book treat it since I don't read 
fanfic in that genre (gotta good friend who writes it, and when he told 
me his latest spell was named by a latinization of "Rabbit Test", I 
decided not to delve further).  Farzit goes, I don't read much other 
fanfic either though my wife collects tons of the stuff.  I guess I 
should build a database so she quits buying duplicate 'zines at the 
sundry mediacons she attends as soon as I finish cataloging my 
videotapes.  But since it's a series of books/movies, it's generally 
shortened to "HP:tPoA".  "HP3" would make the sorting easier, but this 
stuff isn't done for _my_ convenience.

Sorry about the intrusion into the extinct thread, but we just got back 
from our annual "get out of Jersey" expedition.  I saw the Northern 
Lights for the first time in thirty years from Yaak, Montana.
-- 
Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net    http://home.comcast.net/~wdg3rd/

No phrase sickens me more than the pious "'Tis God's will" and I must be
hearing it in one form or another at least twenty times a day.
    --  Richard Cowper, "The Hertsford Manuscript", F&SF Oct '76 p31col2