[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Film Theorist Question

[Matt Huber]

I am glad that my question has been recieved and such well formulated answers have been created. I would like to apologize if I had been previously offensive as this was not my intent.  I am one that is not holding an opinion on this matter until I can fully understands others outlook on it.  Hence my further questions. From what i can tell, from previous posts, is that the Large and main complaint with the first 2 films is the lack of character development.  THis is inronic as it seems that this is the one thing that the filmmakers have identified as an area that they felt they couldn't convey properly in order to keep the pacing of the film on target.  This apparently is the reason for the deleted scenes, which we discover from the interviews found on the DVD's. I wonder how the filmmakers could have strayed from the story and shown more development.  Which film do they do this in?  SS/PS was the inital story set up, and COS was the obliquitory "keep the ball rolling" sort of story.  But looking back on them both, and thinking about them without including our knowledge gained from the future installments, what have we missed?  Looking at each as a story "arc", similarly found in TV series, we have to examine what the story sets up and comparing that to the film translations.  What have we missed in setting up for the future.   This is what I was trying to convey previously.  When a filmmaker knows that a sequel is obvious to occur then they sacrafice the character development for action, romance, and humor.  They figure they can continue to develop the central characters later.  A perfect example of this is the upcoming Spiderman sequel, where the story will pick up where it left off and continue to develop the fancinating "story arc" of best friends and sworn enemies. Basically, i would like to continue to debate this in an open discussion, but If the only problem with the film is lack of character development then I would have to say that we need to give the filmmaker a break realizing that there is more to come. --Matt  P.S. I am not impling that this is could be only subject of criticsm on the films. Also please help me out and explain Neville's Character in the 1st 2 stories and how it could be developed further, without hinting towards any future developments.

daughterofthedust <daughterofthedust at yahoo.com> wrote:>What should
have been done in order to amke a better film?

Here's the short answer: Focus on developing the characters and not 
on getting every single recogizable element from the book to the 
screen.



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