Dresden files!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[alexandral]

"Dresden files" had a strange start for me. I am still struggling with the cinematography and the colour scheme of the series. I know not all of the TV series about supernatural matters should be filmed in a way "Supernatural" is filmed, but I seem to enjoy things so much more when they are filmed beautifully. Muted colours of "Dresden files", it’s cheap-TV-series filming and it’s poorly done monsters don’t do much for me. BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Even with all my misgivings about the cinematography, I find myself loving it more and more over these past few weeks. The series are so very good on many levels that I try to immerse into it’s visual way..

Great things about the series:

- Good story about things supernatural is always a winner with me. Especially when it is a well-thought-through story with so many things in the past to discover and so many things in the future to be developed, with strong and coherent world-building.

- Especially when it has a main hero who is a wizard, and also is original, quirky, attractive in SPADES and has his way with words on a snarky side. On top of that he CARES and wants to protect everyone and does not think of himself. And to add more, he has a haunted and dark past and a disregard for authorities. I am already done for!

- Strong heroine who is in the life-long OTP with the main hero. And their relationship is doomed from the very beginning as heroine knows nothing about supernatural world and she must never discover this world underneath her own world because this will put her in terrible danger. (And this is where "Dresden files" are much better then "Supernatural" for me. I need a heroine to bond with!!!!!!!!)

- Hero’s sidekick is already dead but cheerful, witty and has a great choice of ties



Harry Dresden (Paul Blackthorne): WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment.

Scruffy-looking??? I say – gorgeous, especially when he starts talking with the velvety voice of his




Lt. Connie Murphy (by Velerie Cruz). Strong. Loyal. Intelligent. Lovely.



Bob (Terence Mann). Already dead but hasn’t lost his appetite for life:



Way too-good-looking Warden of the High Council for Chicago Morgan (Conrad Coates):

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

In the books, Morgan's thing is that he really DOES think Harry gave in to the dark side and is only pretending to be good...he's not like his is to be a jerk, it's because he honestly believes that Harry is a threat, so that's how he treats him. Series Maorgan is still trying to make up his mind. Actually, to me, he feels more like Morgan's son. Regardless, i'm loving him.

I'm more concerned that Harry lives in a cramped looking space where he has more stuff than square footage, and that he drives a piece of junk...basement/crowded store front, bug/jeep are irrelevant, just like I'd rather have a Murphy who's a foot taller than the books. Also, lets face it, as great as the visual in your head from the books is, Murphy scolding Harry's chest and Harry climbing out of a too-small car would get old fast(and I'm sure Paul Blackthorne wouldn't appreciate either for a full time gigs that could-hopefully-last years)

In general, I prefer book Bob, but a) a direct translation of Bob would only be acceptable on HBO, and b) Your pool of actors shrinks enormously if they're just going to be the voice behind the talking skull. Plus, series Bob functions better in a serial.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

In the books, Morgan's thing is that he really DOES think Harry gave in to the dark side and is only pretending to be good...he's not like his is to be a jerk, it's because he honestly believes that Harry is a threat, so that's how he treats him.

I agree – Morgan seemed to be very surprised at the end of "Storm Front" that Harry fought Victor Sells.

just like I'd rather have a Murphy who's a foot taller than the books.

She still seems to be quite a petite lady to me, I think this is the main thing!

Also, lets face it, as great as the visual in your head from the books is, Murphy scolding Harry's chest and Harry climbing out of a too-small car would get old fast

Exactly – and the old jeeps seems to do far too well with the general adorable scruffiness of Harry. :D

In general, I prefer book Bob, but a) a direct translation of Bob would only be acceptable on HBO, and b) Your pool of actors shrinks enormously if they're just going to be the voice behind the talking skull.

I think it works better to give a "visual help"!!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Some fans want to think that Morgan is evil and that he's the traitor(a plot from later in the books) but I can't see that...Morgan is one of the good guys through and through, he's just not overly likeable or tolerant(in the books...TV Morgan has a bit of both. and a fair dash of hot)

I think Murphy actually looks relatively tall, but Harry is huge(seriously...Joe Cheng and Abe Hiroshi would probably both have to tilt their heads back to look Paul Blackthorne in the eyes)

Most of the changes are changes that work better given the medium. It's just getting fans to realize that different mediums=different things that do and don't work.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I think Murphy actually looks relatively tall, but Harry is huge(seriously...Joe Cheng and Abe Hiroshi would probably both have to tilt their heads back to look Paul Blackthorne in the eyes)

Oh my! I just looked up how tall he is - 1.92 m. This is crazy!!! This must be why Murphy looks quite small in comparison, and I agree with you that a really tiny lady would have looked just ridiculous. I actually did think she is small until you told me, it is difficult to work out on the screen. A small lady would have had to stand on a box when she is near Harry (like they did with Scully apparently)

Most of the changes are changes that work better given the medium. It's just getting fans to realize that different mediums=different things that do and don't work.

I am usually in a camp of "keep the spirit", little things don't worry me Things like American jargon in the latest adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice" do, though. Because this takes away the soul of the thing for me.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

wow, that is tall. And frankly, I'd rather have Murphy Scolding Hary's shoulder than Murphy scolding his ribcage.

Hmm...I don't recall any blatant american jargon in P&P...a few things stood out as not being what you'd expect, but they're things I've also seen in supposedly superior productions(period productions, not just P&P)

Err...this is assuming that the Matthew McFayden/Kiera Knightley version is still the most recent(it gets remade so often...)

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Hmm...I don't recall any blatant american jargon in P&P...a few things stood out as not being what you'd expect, but they're things I've also seen in supposedly superior productions(period productions, not just P&P)

Yep, that was Matthew McFayden/Kiera Knightley. I definitely remember Mr.Binglay using "dude" or something of the sort. But they all spoke in present-day English. I noticed because this is one of the novels I read MANY times. The absence of Jane Austen's language was startling. I was less worried with the meetings in the fog (not in the book) and a kissing scene. Lovely kissing scene it was!!!

Love your icon, BTW!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Actually, dude is a word that WAS around at the time, in England and the US. Hmm...but come to think of it, I did notice several things like that...that were used in common speech or private letters, but not in books and such.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Actually, dude is a word that WAS around at the time, in England and the US. Hmm...but come to think of it, I did notice several things like that...that were used in common speech or private letters, but not in books and such.

This is interesting!!!!!!!! You see, I usually don't mind details, but this language thing in P&P was rubbing me the wrong way. ;(

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Other good examples are "pants" and "breeches" (generally pronounced "britches") and "gotten" which is generally regarded as incorrect grammar but is actually proper grammar held over from Elizabethan times. Spend a few weeks doing nothing but reading Shakespeare, and you'll see a lot of things that are usually regarded as more modern colloquialisms but aren't. It's just that in the last 200 years, most of it has been weeded out of British English and is now considered to be very un-British. They are, however, words that would still be used by younger people at the times, who had their own slang, just like modern youths do. So, while it may not have been dialogue from the book, it likely is what a young man like Bingley would have said in common speech, as opposed to carefully formed and scripted, which was how I took it.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

This makes me feel better :D!!