Countdown to small gifts 5/7: Back to canon

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Hi, folks! If you're just joining us, we're on DAY FIVE of seven days of discussion before Small Gifts begins posting. Start off by introducing yourself (and meeting fellow participants and watchers) over here!

Day 4: Back to canon

What's your favorite book and/or movie, and why?

Comments

[ruinsplume]

That's so true about the clothes! Whoever chose the Muggle sweaters for the golden trio seemed to be wishing, at times, that they were actually designing Wesley Crusher's sweaters on TNG.

[museinabsentia]

One of my degrees was in costume design, I'm really picky about movie costuming. That just threw me so badly I couldn't watch them! I mean, that's half the fun of Arthur Weasley, making fun of his attempts at Muggle clothes. You lose so much of the small nuances that way.

[ruinsplume]

Oh, I can totally see how having a degree in costume design would make it hard to watch all kinds of movies! You have a fascinating backstory, MIA!

[museinabsentia]

It's funny, I can totally ignore things like historical inaccuracy, but I have s really hard time ignoring things that effect the story.

And I swear I'm not really that interesting.

[magnetic_pole]

And I swear I'm not really that interesting.

I don't believe that for a moment.

I'd never thought about it in quite the way you put it, but you're so right--the movies didn't capture a lot of the incidental humor. In some cases it just didn't translate from the page, but in others--the costumes, parituclarly, as you say--they didn't work very hard at capturing the quirky humor in the books. Thanks for pointing that out! M.