GOF one movie?

[Tim]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Tracie" <tracie622 at y...> wrote:
> I totally agree with everyone on here who has said how awful the 
> thought of GOF being one movie is.  I, for one, can not see how 
this 
> can be done without seriously hacking the death out of the book.  
> There are so many wonderful and exciting things happening in GOF. 
> 
> 1. The Riddle House
> 
> 2.The muggle post by Mrs Weasley with all the stamps on it. And 
> Harry's letter to Sirius, plus all the bday owl posts.  And the 
post 
> by Ron using "pig".
> 
> 2. The Weasleys busting thru the Dursley's boarded up fireplace 
> to "pick" Harry up for the Quidditch World Cup.  (This brought 
tears 
> to my eyes I was laughing so hard)
> 
> 3. The Burrow, Weasley's Wizard Wheezes, Bill, Charlie..etc.
> 
> 4.The World Cup itself (this will take at least 30 minutes as so 
> many things happened there)
> 
> Okay...that's just the first HOUR....
> 
> 5. Hogwarts express and the begin of term feast...DD describes the 
> TWT.  The arrival of Mad Eye Moody.
> 
> 6. DADA and the Unforgivables...this is really important because it 
> brings to light some of Nevilles apprehensions
> 
> 7. The arrival of the visiting students from the two other schools.
> 
> 8. placing the names in the Goblet and the announcements, Harry's 
> name being read.
> 
> 9.  The wand weighing...important because we see Ollivander again, 
> learn a little more about Harry's wand..which is very important at 
> the end of this book when old voldy shows up again.
> 
> 10.  The First Task
> 
> Okay...i'd say we are thru the 2nd hour.
> 
> so...we squeeze the second and third tasks...voldie's re-emergence, 
> the confrontation and Cedric's death in the graveyard..the 
revealing 
> of Barty Jr...DD's "glint"...Sirius being "revealed"...all in the 
> last half hour???
> 
> they are MAD!!!  I don't know about anyone else...but if they do 
> this..and hack it to bits...I'm not going to bother going to see 
> it.  I love these books too much to see them butchered like this.  
I 
> said before in another post.  GOF and OotP are both twice as long 
as 
> the first three books.  Squeezing PoA into a 2.5 hour movie is 
going 
> to be bad enough...but GoF and OotP???  I can't see how it can be 
> done without losing the story. I don't care how good a director you 
> have...it just won't work.
> 
> Oh, and as far as the kids go...Harry, Hermoine, and Ron all "age" 
> in the books..seems only natural that Dan, Emma and Rupert age 
right 
> along with them...I wouldn't be able to see any other kids playing 
> those roles.
> 
> all of them at Warner must be on drugs.  Or else they all slipped 
> into insanity over night...
> 
> Tracie...who was appalled when she read about this...and needs 
> coffee...badly!

How come everyone seems to keep missing the "unexpected task"??  
That's something you just can't leave out either as it sets up the 
second task.

Tim