I just wish he'd play the part a bit more like the character in the book, like Richard Harris did.
2007-07-02 15:58:16 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
If Richard Harris was the man who played him in the first movie, then I like him better. He seemed kinder, and acted more like I thought Dumbledore would. The other guy acts weird, and makes Dumbledore seem crazy and eccentric.
2007-07-02 16:06:40 · answer #1 · answered by Bibliomaniac 3 · 11⤊ 1⤋
See, i loved harris as dumbledore, he was the dumbledore i saw from the books. Gambon simply did not portray what was often described in the book as "Often having the twinkle in his eyes" or the funny, wise gentle man it often said. HOWEVER why is this a bad thing? Why does Gambon have to be the same Dumbledore? He made the character his own and some of the scenes he did were amazing. When some of us think of Gambon we think of the bad things, he had to fill some big shoes and he did well considering he was one of the only people who stepped up the the job. AND did you know Harris was being threatened to be taken of harry potter anyway cause he was on drugs and a serious alchholic? So we never know! xxx
2014-04-21 16:13:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Richard Harris was definetely better. Michael Gambon makes Dumbledore's character look really mean. And he isn't like that at all.
2007-07-03 15:03:42 · answer #3 · answered by inugurl09 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
YES.
I am getting more used to Mr. Gambon's Dumbledore, but I still miss Richard Harris.
2007-07-03 13:29:32 · answer #4 · answered by soulflower 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Harris was the better Dumbledore, and his shoes were a bit too big for Gambon to fill. Harris' Dumbledore comes across as wise and caring, someone who tends to know more than he let's on. Gambon's Dumbledore comes close to this in "Prisoner of Azkaban" (which is saying something from me as I view that as the worst movie of the series so far), but he looses it in "Goblet of Fire." In fairness to Gambon, it may well be the Cuaron and Newell's faults for this. As the directors of three and four they could well have told him how Dumbledore should be as far as they were concerned. And the following quote from his IMDb bio certainly suggests that the way he viewed the kids in the movie may also have been the way he viewed the adults.
"[on making the fourth Harry Potter movie] "I was very anxious to break the franchise out of this goody-two-shoes feel. It's my view that children are violent, dirty, corrupt anarchists. Just adults-in-waiting basically." "
2007-07-02 23:53:52 · answer #5 · answered by knight1192a 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Richard Harris in the first 2 HP movies was the best! I was so upset in Goblet of Fire when Dumbledore shook Harry at the shoulders! It is so uncharacteristic of Dumbledore to act that way. Whenever I read HP, I picture Richard's Dumbledore most definitely.
2007-07-02 23:14:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 13⤊ 1⤋
I actually liked Michael Gambon's Dumbledore. Dumbledore is a lunatic... a brilliant lunatic, not a wizened old man. "Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!" A man obsessed with lemon drops and wizard candy... a man with a youthful spirit and old wisdom, with a graceful but old body. Percy Weasley, in Sorcerer's Stone, said that he was a bit crazy...
Dumbledore was a man filled with passion and love. Richard Harris was not filled with that passion. He was sweet and loving, but in a grandfatherly sort of way, not in a passionate revolutionary sort of way.
I do miss Richard Harris, and I think he played the subdued, wise and quiet part of Dumbledore, but Michael Gambon captured the passionate and lunatic part.
I personally couldn't imagine Richard Harris as Dumbledore fighting Voldemort in the movie coming out next week... he was too slow and precise, while I think Michael Gambon will make the duel between Dumbledore and Voldemort a duel to remember.
I can't wait to see the duel! I hope that Gambon does well!
2007-07-02 23:24:01 · answer #7 · answered by HP Wombat 7 · 8⤊ 8⤋
aww... richard... it was so sad when he died... i think he portrayed Dumbledore fantastically, he had this kind of aura in the movie, unlike michael. i think michael is just a touch more on the serious side when playing dumbledore, but that may just be the script.
2007-07-02 23:08:56 · answer #8 · answered by ♥music_lover♥ 2 · 11⤊ 0⤋
I think it is more that the books have gotten more serious and Michael was doing as directed but Richard Harris was a fantastic author.
2007-07-02 23:11:41 · answer #9 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 3⤊ 4⤋
You are very right! It was a sad day in the Harry Potter movie universe the day that he died.
May be rest in peace.
2007-07-02 23:11:35 · answer #10 · answered by jzepeda22 3 · 6⤊ 1⤋