Somethings going to be cut from PoA

[Donna]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Beth in Sacramento" 
<Tasukibeth1 at c...> wrote:
> 
> Spohia wrote: 
> (I just loved the voices Stephen Fry made to go with the map at 
this 
> point in his reading of PoA, I had to rewind the tape and listen to 
> it several times, I thought he did it so well. Especially the way 
the 
> tone of each successive insult becomes increasingly affected.)
> However, as Joann points out, this would be difficult to translate 
to 
> the screen.
> 
> Beth says:
> I think that with some creative direction they will be able to 
leave 
> it in. In my mind I picture something like this:
> 
> Snape starts commanding the map to reveal it's secrets, and then we 
> see the look on Snape's face change. He crouches lower for a better 
> look, at which the camera changes to Snapes POV as he (and the 
> audience) reads the rude remarks. It's really no different that the 
> way the audience was able to read Tom's entries as they appeared in 
> the diary while Harry was reading them.
> 
> I only hope that Cuaron doesn't employ the irritating "read-it-out-
> loud-so-the-children-who-can't-read" device; Snape would never read 
> something like that aloud; it would go totally against his 
character.
> 
> Beth in Sacramento

Much as I would love to see many things in the next movie, consider 
this.  What rules in Hollywood, is the dollar, the bottom line.  
Frankly, I am surprised that the two previous movies were as long as 
they were.  

Distributors and theatre owners like their films short.  The shorter 
a film is, the more often they can show it.  The more often they can 
show it, the more people attend therefore larger box office.  

So, whatever gets put in this movie, much as we want to see all the 
little details, will be only the stuff that moves the plot along.  I 
think that all those visits to Hogsmeade in the book will be 
condensed into one visit.  

For those of us who know the books intimately, this might seem like 
cheating.  But we must put up with that.  Besides, Steve Kloves seems 
to be doing a really good job of screenwriting.  And he does get in 
contact with JKR.  And it seems the films have her stamp of approval.

I wish that they would make movies like they did in the old days, you 
know, like Ben Hur and My Fair Lady.  Those films were long and had 
an intermission.  If they did the same for Harry Potter, think of all 
the things they could put in.

Donna