GOF one movie?

[mmouse322]

--- 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!
> 
> 
> OH..and I forgot to mention all of Rita Skeeter's scoops, the Yule 
> Ball, SPEW, Padfoot in the cave, the Pensieve trial memories of the 
> DE's.....
> 
> 2.5 hours???????????  they are mad...mad...mad!!!


  -- there is absolutely NO WAY that they can make GoF into one 
movie, I was shocked that they're actually going through with it. 
I've been saying since PS first came out that they'd be finished at 
PoA. I knew they'd try to stuff it all into one movie, which makes me 
wonder if they've even READ the books? How can anyone who's read them 
even think about making it one movie? Obviously, major points will 
have to be cut or butchered to an "acceptable" length - i'm thinking 
here of the Yule Ball, SPEW, Burrow scenes, Unforgivables lesson, and 
the wand weighing, and those are just scenes that are essential! 
Everything that happens ties into later plots, not only in GoF, but 
OotP as well (let's not even get started on that one) The people at 
WB have definatly lost their minds, if they even had them to begin 
with.

molly, who's nearly crippled with apoleptic rage by this news

  ps: Get new kids for the Trio? They lucked out in the first place 
to get kids who look the part, can act (sort of), and are the right 
age. Who else could play them? I think maybe a monkey is secretly 
making all the decisions for WB.