[HPFGU-Movie] GOF Syndrome?

[Aberforth's Goat]

Sister Mary:

> In reading all the comments on the movie so far, I wonder if the film is
not
> suffering from "Goblet-of-Fire Syndrome"... meaning that it was rushed
into
> production with a Set-In-Stone release date.  The director and editors did
> all they could in the time they were allowed, but eventually came the
moment
> when they HAD to hand the master print over to be duplicated in time to be
> shipped to theaters all over the planet.  Perhaps they just didn't have
> enough time to polish all the special effects and re-shoot awkward
mistakes
> or re-edit the choppy bits.

Good thought! I think that could explain some of the chopy work in the first
half of the film: the scenes are fine in and of themselves but don't hold
together. Of course, they did have a pretty lavish budget, but if they'd had
more time as well, I suppose they could have made further improvements ...

OTOH, don't film crews *always* work with pretty draconian deadlines? Even
if they don't have to ship the film by day X, they still have only so much
time with their actors, film crews, equipment, etc. I should think that the
creative process involved in mustering and marching a whole army through a
film shooting is a very different from the sort involved in giving birth to
a book.

Baaaaaa!

Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray, who finds the metaphor of birthing much
more attractive to that of war, particularly because the former activity
never involved much pain on his part ... )
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