Episode 20: Tim talks about his disgust with the Harry Potter movie franchise and its insistence on making him feel inadequate.  Then, he shares a recreation of a conversation he heard many years ago while hiding behind a curtain in Hollywood. It was a conversation between the higher ups of the Harry Potter movie franchise before they began filming the third movie, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
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I’ve never worked for a casting agency, so I cannot imagine the difficulties that lie therein. But I can only imagine what a disappointment it must be to have casted a young tot, a whole cast of young tots, to find out that as they age, despite all the practice, despite their access to the greatest acting coaches money can buy, a good three quarters of them can’t act worth a turd. I can’t speak for everyone, but I at least would have been totally fine should the producers of the Harry Potter franchise decided that they’d had enough with the original cast and swapped out the old for a set of new. Just as they could have gleaned over the differences in landscape with some of the dialogue from Hagrid I provided previously, they could have had the new Harry stop, with the new Ron and the new Hermione, and say “Isn’t this great! I mean, how wonderful is it that our emotions are actually believable now! I mean, now I can actually spark some emotional commitment from the viewer because of my competent acting.” See? That totally would have covered the transition.

My final critique with the films is a critique that could be used with almost every movie that is based on a book. I just don’t like their interpretation of it. My mind created a world based on the words I read and the movie didn’t exactly match this mental image. That the producers could not possibly know what I imagined in my mind is completely beside the point! That's their job! To match what's in my head!
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