Somethings going to be cut from PoA

[junediamanti]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Tracie" <tracie622 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Donna" <deemarie1a at y...> 
wrote:
> > --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Beth in Sacramento" 
> > <Tasukibeth1 at c...> wrote:
> 

> > 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

It is to be hoped that the studios will learn from the production of 
LOTR which has to some extent re-wrote the rule books.  As a huge 
fan of the book and movies so far of LOTR, I never felt that the 
book could be filmed as one film.  What I would also like to see 
with future Harry Potter films is the same kind of unifying vision 
that Jackson has brought to the retelling of the LOTR trilogy.  He 
has earned the odium of some die-hard fans for making slight changes 
to the books, but IMHO has understood well that film and literature 
are different media and what works well on the page and in the 
reader's imagination does not always work so well visually.  I hate 
to upset any of the Harry Potter film fans but the reason that the 
last two films have been so disappointing is a slavish and 
unimaginative re-telling.  The books are largely episodic with a 
central plot, but usually also an "chapter issue" which is resolved 
in that same chapter.  This is perfect for reading aloud to a child 
for instance because there is a clear end point.  In the films I 
found that this episodic fell came over lumbering and dull - and yet 
the books are not lumbering and dull - I read OoP in 24 hours and 
was largely incommunicado throughout.  We need a director who loves 
the books but who is primarily an artist in the art of fantasy film 
making.  

I would happily sit through a two parter of GoF or OoP because 
everytime I have seen the films I have bitterly resented some of the 
bits that were missed out.  Kids are sticklers for accuracy and 
would probably cope too.

June