If YOU were writing and directing

[etonbuffy]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, JessaDrow at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 4/20/03 3:14:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> buffyeton at y... writes:
> 
<snip> Who cares if the movies 
> over three hours long? I just would love to see on screen the 
movies being 
> truer to the books.
> 
> ~Faith~

I definitely agree with this.  The filmakers seem to rely much to 
much on billowy music and loooonnnnngggg quidditch scenes.  For 
instance, the whole bit with the flying car was horrible!  They could 
have cut most of that and done the deathday scene.  I also thought 
the quidditch scene was much to long, where Harry and Draco fly 
through the tunnels etc.  That went on for ages.  

And whatever direction Chris Columbus was giving to Rupert was 
terrible.  He turned him into a cartoon tacky sidekick, instead of 
the sarcastic, yet intelligent, sensetive character he is in the 
books.  

As for the first movie, I would have kept the scene in the robes shop 
where Harry first meets Draco, and the scene in the wand shop nearly 
word perfect with the book.  

Also, am I the only one who thinks the entrance hall at Hogwarts is 
all wrong in the film?  Why did they have to go up the staircase 
before getting to the Great Hall???

The sorting hat scene is a particularly hard one.  I mean, it would 
be a bit tedious to go through the entire roll for every new pupil as 
it does in the book, but it still would have been interesting to see 
a few other students sorted, outside the very main characters.  

They also didn't need the "touching" scene of Harry looking out his 
dormitory window on his first night at Hogwarts.  That was just 
cheezy and time consuming.

When Harry get's his Nimbus 2000, they should have kept that scene as 
it was in the book.  It would have had more impact, and humour.

As for the scene where they first find Fluffy, half of me wishes they 
could have found some way to keep Neville there.  It makes his later 
scene, where he tries to stand up to Harry, Hermione and Ron much 
more interesting, and helps with his character.

A question though, what was up with Seamus always blowing himself 
up??  It seemed like a time waster, and a try for a cheap laugh that 
didn't work.  

Two other minor annoyances: uniforms.  Quidditch and school.  Neither 
of them existed in the book.  I don't mind the school ones, they add 
that touch of Britishness to the film that it sometimes seems to 
need, but the Quidditch ones are just ridiculous money wasters.  

Well, that's about all I can think of right now.  Looking back, it is 
quite a lot lol.

Tamara