Somethings going to be cut from PoA

[Tracie]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Donna" <deemarie1a at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Beth in Sacramento" 
> <Tasukibeth1 at c...> wrote:

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> 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


The Potter movies are a major money maker.  They can make them as 
long as they want.  The studio and the theater owners know that no 
matter how long the Potter movies are, people will flock to see 
them, and more then once.  It's the same with LOTR, those movies are 
3 hours long.  POA could very well be that long, altho more children 
will be going to that then LOTR, so that is a consideration I 
suppose.  

This brings up the length of GOF and OotP.  Both books were twice as 
long as their three predesessors.  So, I am assuming those movies 
will have to be at least 3 hours long, or suffer severly under the 
hatchet.  Which I would hate to see.

Tracie