Why were they middle aged in the movies? The books made it clear that James and Lily married almost right out of school and had Harry when they were all of twenty or twenty-one! I get so mad when I see the celluloid version of these characters. What were the directors thinking? They made Lily a pale, fading sort of house-wifey woman and James a professorial sort of man with flat, thin hair and a generic kindly, fatherly face!
What the hell? Lily was a really strong willed girl as was James- a hell-raiser and a rebel! They were at the forefront of the resistance when Voldemort was in power and the best aurors along with the Longbottoms that the Order of Phoenix had as members!
Why were they made so vapid and retiring? Ugh! Did the directors think that portraying a couple in twenties who died in the first year of their child's life would pain emotional parents across the globe, or did they assume that sticking to the books' version of things would be promoting early marriage between young couples?
Whatever their reason, I can't help but feeling the tiniest bit betrayed that Rowling allowed it.
I know the protest comes too late from me, and that others may have already mentioned it, but still! I've read that Rowling approved the script and she had creative inputs in the movies- she even had a hand in casting, so why, oh why, didn't she object?
She was offered Lily's cameo in the first movie- the appearacnce in the Mirror of Erised, but she backed off. Couldn't she have made it clear then, that the ages of those two characters were important?
I suppose I feel strongly about James and Lily because what little Rowling has written of their love story was touching, sweet and totally entrancing. I want more. Even if she never wrote another book about Harry Potter, I do hope she some day writes a little more on Lily Evans and James Potter and if possible, a little more on Sirius Black.
Its heart-wrenching that they died so young, but it would be a terrible thing if their story was never told in a telling that was only for them.
What the hell? Lily was a really strong willed girl as was James- a hell-raiser and a rebel! They were at the forefront of the resistance when Voldemort was in power and the best aurors along with the Longbottoms that the Order of Phoenix had as members!
Why were they made so vapid and retiring? Ugh! Did the directors think that portraying a couple in twenties who died in the first year of their child's life would pain emotional parents across the globe, or did they assume that sticking to the books' version of things would be promoting early marriage between young couples?
Whatever their reason, I can't help but feeling the tiniest bit betrayed that Rowling allowed it.
I know the protest comes too late from me, and that others may have already mentioned it, but still! I've read that Rowling approved the script and she had creative inputs in the movies- she even had a hand in casting, so why, oh why, didn't she object?
She was offered Lily's cameo in the first movie- the appearacnce in the Mirror of Erised, but she backed off. Couldn't she have made it clear then, that the ages of those two characters were important?
I suppose I feel strongly about James and Lily because what little Rowling has written of their love story was touching, sweet and totally entrancing. I want more. Even if she never wrote another book about Harry Potter, I do hope she some day writes a little more on Lily Evans and James Potter and if possible, a little more on Sirius Black.
Its heart-wrenching that they died so young, but it would be a terrible thing if their story was never told in a telling that was only for them.
See what I mean?
This is how they OUGHT to be!!
This was Ok. Sort of. Bleh.
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