Refuses to read the Harry Potter books??
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Ace_101 — 15 years ago(September 01, 2010 09:47 AM)
The movies are not being made for JK Rowling only. It is made for us fans. JK Rowling earns sh!tloads of money from WB ofcourse she doesn't have a problem.
However the fans, who spend their money to go and watch a movie they love, they deserve the acting that has some distinct resemblance to the character that they adore in the books. And frankly speaking Gambon does not even come close to the Dumbledore in the books.
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sillylass — 15 years ago(November 17, 2010 04:42 PM)
I totally agree! I think Gambon is a TERRIBLE Dumbledore - he gives a tempermental, anxious and severe portrayal of what should be a very cool, cunning and whimsical character. I cringe every time he delivers a line that is so anti-Dumbledore. Too bad they didn't get Peter O'Toole to replace Richard Harris instead - I think he would have been fabulous!
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Mrs_Phoenix — 15 years ago(September 27, 2010 05:25 AM)
Plenty of actors don't read the books of the films they are in. It sometimes works out better to work strictly from the script.
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morethanwhat — 15 years ago(December 06, 2010 07:14 AM)
That's unfortunate. No wonder Dumbledore seemed to have a personality transplant for those 3 movies.
Did Michael Gambon read the 6th book? Because his performance was vastly improved and he seemed to portray a completely different person in that movie. -
overwatch17 — 15 years ago(January 25, 2011 10:56 AM)
I personally think his version of Dumbledore is great. He never seemed like a grumpy old man except for the one scene in OOTP where he said "don't you all have studying to do" but in that part he was angry about Umbridge so it was understandable.
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xx_Sarah — 15 years ago(February 26, 2011 03:05 PM)
Ian Mckellan was offered the role of Dumbledore when Griffiths died, but he turned it down because of LOTR; He didn't think it was fair to be playing two "great wizards of all time". I read it somewhere years ago.
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xXRandomnessXx — 15 years ago(March 06, 2011 06:43 PM)
xx_Sarah is right, Ian did say that some years ago.
Anyway, stop your whinging about Gambon being Dumbledore. It's done. He's on the screen & personally, I don't mind about him being Dumbledore.
It's only a movie,I'm sure you guys are more then capable of creating Dumbledore with your own imagination from just reading the books itself. -
metalucax — 14 years ago(July 09, 2011 12:53 PM)
But that is exactly de the point, overwatch17. Dumbledore NEVER gets angry, except when someone harms his students. Or say he doesn't care about them. Dumeblodre, no matter what happens, is always cool, thinking and totally calm, even if there is a war happening just in front of him. And that is exactly what Gambon is not. He is angry, anxious, severea tired and grumpy old man.
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apple-bottom — 14 years ago(June 26, 2011 12:24 PM)
I really like him in this role, actually. I grappled a lot with this when I first saw Gambon as Dumbledore in Azkaban. Because there's no doubt he's harsher, and less "wizened" than the Dumbledore in the first 2 Potter movies. But I think he pulls the role ofb68f well. There's a transformation in the books from a Dumbledore who, early on, seems unfailingly nice and infallible; but later on, you come to realize that he's fallible, flawed, feeling old (thereby sensing that he has less time in which to do ever more, as he finds out there is more than just one horcrux, for example), and filled with regret. In fact, we find out that in many ways he groomed Harry, USED Harry in fact, for the task he knew he wouldn't have the time himself to complete.
It's a shame the original Dumbledore died, but Gambon pulls the fallible Dumbledore off very, VERY well. -
VBallOH — 14 years ago(July 19, 2011 08:03 AM)
"as he finds out there is more than just one horcrux, for example"
In the books, he suspected all along that there were 7 horcruxes - he only hoped that voldemort hadn't had time to make them all. That's one thing the movies royally screwed up, as Dumbledore is SHOCKED to find out there are more than 1. Not to mention that, considering Harry is a horcrux, and Dumbledore knew it all along, I'm not sure how that works. -
frederickelliot — 12 years ago(April 06, 2014 08:10 PM)
In the books, he suspected all along that there were 7 horcruxes - he only hoped that voldemort hadn't had time to make them all. That's one thing the movies royally screwed up, as Dumbledore is SHOCKED to find out there are more than 1
Yes, I thought about this as well. It seems to be done for added effect - to give the scene more dramatic resonance. That would be a call made by the Director. I don't think it's down to Gambon. -
tonyclapson — 14 years ago(August 15, 2011 02:10 AM)
Of course he doesn't read the books, they are for children and he is a man of seventy. He is an actor and as such, reads the script. People talk about Dumbledore as if he exists, but he a actually a fictional character. Sorry to break that news to anybody that thinks the Harry Potter saga is real!