Quidditch match

[boyblue_mn]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "heathernmoore" <heathernmoore at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., MariaJ <muj at h...> wrote:
> 
> 
> >  
> > When it comes to the violence between the players, this 
> > was definitely more violent than I imagined. Especially as 
> > Madam Hooch says she wants a 'nice, clean game' - were we 
> > supposed to think that this *was* a nice, clean game
> > or did they just cut a lot from this scene, including 
> > all the penalties?
> > 
> > Maria (who hates sport in RL, but finds Quidditch quite 
> > fascinating)
> 
> I believe we're probably supposed to get from Hooch's remark
> that Slytherin and Gryffindor already have a reputation from 
> previous years of playing especially hard and loose against 
> each other.  She has to make a point to verbally 
> disapprove of it before the game starts. Her statement 
> actually gives us another clue about the rivalry between 
> Oliver and Marcus.

Let's keep in mind how long the Quiditch match took on the 
screen.I doubt that it took much more than a minute. Just 
enough time togive us some thrills and touch on the key 
elements of the storyplot. I'm pretty sure there are two 
Quidditch matchs in book 1.

I think this is another way that the movie producers cheated 
us by trimming the movie down to what they considered a childs 
attention span. There is some debate as to whether the orginal
cutwas (as rumored) 4hrs. long. But with out question, they 
did some serious trimming of this movie which (it should be 
obvious) I think was a big mistake. I could have very easily 
sat through 10 to 15 minutes of Quidditch and wouldn't have 
minded at all thatthe movie was 15 minutes longer. I think 
this movie should have been minimum 3 hrs.

As far as the violence, given the leveel rivalry between 
Slytherin and Griffendore, it was probably a little tame.
Remeber some of the games in later books are absolutely 
brutal.