What a butcher!

[Nicky]

Wow! If we let you loose on the script it wouldn't be recognisable as
GoF. I agree with most of what you put, but if you cut out too much of
the subplots then the movie is about the Triwizard Tournament only, and
that might be a little boring, and wouldn't convey the passage of time
(not everyone notices the weather in a scene to dictate what season it
is). The thing with cutting down such a story as GoF is that there's so
much in there that is referenced to in later scenes, such as the
PortKey and Krum and even Winky has a part in it. I pity whoever has to
adapt the book.

Nicky

> 
> Initial scene before the credits is the Riddle House scene.  Then, we
> 
> skip straight to Harry waking up with his scar hurting, followed by a
> 
> shot of the Hogwarts express winding toward school while the opening 
> credits roll.  Yup, that's right, no Weasley's Wizard Wheezes and all
> 
> the great things that happen before Hogwarts.  The few key facts you 
> have to have to make the Moody plot twist happen are Accio, Priori 
> Incantantem, Moody's kidnap, Crouch Jr.'s escape from Azkaban (there 
> might be others, but I can't think of them right now).  They learn 
> Accio in class later, so the early Accio scenes can be cut.  Moody's 
> kidnap is a Rita Skeeter story maybe, or a conversation with Hagrid. 
> 
> Whatever.  Crouch Jr.'s escape from Azkaban is forshadowed by Sirius 
> and the Pensieve.  
> 
> Priori Incantantem is the hardest element to establish without "The 
> Dark Mark" scene.  Maybe this comes up in the Draco the Bouncing 
> Ferret scene.  You combine the Ferret scene with the subsequent scene
> 
> where Harry and Draco duel and Hermione gets big teeth.  Moody comes 
> across Harry and Draco dueling, and to find out who hit Hermione, he 
> does Priori Incantantem on Draco's wand.  Moody still gets to teach 
> all of his DADA classes because we need to get to know him, not to 
> mention the Unforgivable Curses.
> 
> Then the screenplay picks up with the Harry's name going into the 
> Goblet and the Three Tasks.  To save time, the Champions do not 
> figure out the Egg's clue; they are told exactly what the Second Task
> 
> is, just as they are told what the Third Task is.  
> 
> The Unexpected Task and Yule Ball never happen.  The Bagman gambling 
> subplot never happens.  The House Elf Liberation Front never 
> happens.  Harry doesn't face the sphynx in the maze.  No Winky.  No 
> Dobby (Harry gets the gillyweed by researching it with Hermione and 
> Ron).  No Blast-Ended Skrewts.  
> 
> Now for some real controversy:  it might be possible to eliminate the
> 
> Second Task entirely, particularly since it might be really hard and 
> expensive to film it well.  Maybe they do the first task, which 
> determines their start position for the maze, and that's the whole 
> tournament.
> 
> Even then, we're probably not down to 3 hours, but it's a start.  
> There are probably 20 more issues that still need to be addressed, 
> but enough already!
> 
> Cindy (who would love to try to cut down PoA, too)
> 
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