[HPFGU-Movie] Re: The second task is central to the whole series

[Kathryn Wolber]

--- lunalovegoodrules <lunalovegood at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> > If anything, the only problem I see with cutting
> the second task is 
> what then would happen to The Egg And The Eye. The
> prefects' bathroom 
> scene I wouldn't mind missing 
> > (although it would be nice to see Myrtle again),
> but the scene on 
> the stairs is one of my favorites from GoF.
> > 
> > Manda
 Now I haven't been following this thread until now,
so maybe I missed something, but what makes everyone
think they would cut out one of the tasks? That would
be a little absurd.  They have to leave the main plot
and the trio's dealings intact.  What I think will go
will be things like Hagrid and Madame Maxime's
relationship.  They'll likely cut things from the QWC,
such as when the kids spend 3-4 pages finding water,
and Fred and George bothering Bagman about the bet. 
They could also do the whole Frank Bryce thing much
quicker than in the book.  Those are all trivial to
the main plot OR will take a much shorter time span on
screen because all of the space JKR uses to describe
new settings will be apparent because of the set. 
I'm not thrilled that GoF is planned as being so
short, but I think it's going to end up longer than
planned.  Steve Kloves will ask if he can cut alot of
things and the answer will be no because there are
alot of things in GoF that are necessary to making the
plot work.  They can't cut out developing Cedric, they
can't cut out Harry's crush on Cho, they can't cut out
Sirius and they can't cut the Yule ball and Ron and
Hermione bickering because the story would suffer. 
Yes, as usual, we'll definitely lose some of the sly
humor that makes us love the books, but that's okay
because we still have the books and as long as the
movie is a good movie in itself....everything will be
fine.

~Kathryn

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