[HPFGU-Movie] Re: If YOU were writing and directing

[JessaDrow at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/20/03 7:46:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
buffyeton at yahoo.com writes:

> 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.  
> I totally agree, the car scene while interesting got boring real fast, I 
> couldn't wait for it to finally fall out of the tree. And while I love the 
> quidditch scenes, it really did go on forever. I could be wrong, but I 
> don't think that was in the book.
> 
> 
> 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.  
> Ironically enough we were watching the first movie last night, and I was 
> bitching to my husband about that very thing. It was an important scene, 
> and they should have kept it in. I did like the wand scene however, I loved 
> how they showed that Harry had the right wand.
> 
> 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.  
> 
The thing that drives me nuts about the sorting hat is he doesn't sing the 
song, when I first watched the movie, I was dying to actually hear it sung 
out.

> 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.
> I think it was nice that they symbolized Harry feeling safe and comfortable 
> finally, like he finally came home. It would have been nice though if say 
> Neville or someone found him up and came to talk to him. They don't give 
> the kids enough lines. 

> 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.  
> This is wonderful, you're pointing out all the stuff that drove the me 
> crazy last night, I couldn't agree more. The Seamus scenes were annoying, 
> they could have found better and more important stuff to put in those 
> places if they were looking stretch time out. 
> 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.  
> My husband keeps pointing out everytime we watch a Quidditch scene that the 
> Slytherin colors for the robes are wrong, he says something about them not 
> matching the colors on their school uniform badges. 

~Faith~



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