Movie plot holes & why the cuts? Was: Gof: Good Movies, Time, and Coffee

[Tim]

I don't understand what everyone's (OK, most everyone's) complaint is 
that the films are not like the books.  Well, duh.  They're films, 
they're supposed to be different.  The books are filled with a lot of 
little nuaunces that let's the reader's imagination run wild... after 
all, when you read you are "seeing" the action played out in your 
head.  Films are a visual medium, where you have to see everything.  
Let's face it.  If you made the books... any book for that matter... 
into a film and filmed every scene from the book exactly as it was 
written it'd be a very boring film overall.  Sure there'd be great 
bits, but for the most part it would drag on focusing on every little 
detail as it pops up in the book.  As a screenwriter myself, I've 
adapted novels into films.  There's a lot you naturally cut because 
it doesn't move the plot forward, or is repeated elsewhere.  The 
average viewer does not want to be hit over the head with the same 
information over and over again.  You can get away with that in 
books, but you cannot in films.  I think Steve Klovus has done a 
wonderful job editing down the books into a visual medium.  Sure, COS 
was full of holes in the plot... but that can't be blamed on him as 
he wrote the scenes, and they were later edited out.

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Dean" <dean7712000 at y...> wrote:
> Lets face it everyone no matter how good any of the future harry 
> potter books are we need to face up to the fact that they will not 
> live up to the books and we will be disapointed. The one thing that 
> im hopeing for in an extended relese dvd. I did not even bother to 
> watch the first two harry potter at the cinema but ive seen them 
both 
> at least a dozen times each on dvd. No matter how bad harry potter 
> films might be they are still harry potter films and i would watch 
> harry ron and herminie play exploding snap for hours if someone 
> bothered to release it.
> 
> I have to dissagee about most of the extra scences on the dvd. 
While 
> some were very good especialy the ones concerning harry been blamed 
> for opening the chamber of secrets most i found a little dull. I 
dont 
> think they could be added back into the film and i dont think they 
> were ever intended to be in the film. I think they were only shot 
so 
> the DVD could claim to have extra features.
> 
> I think ive ranted enought if you actualy read my rant please reply 
> id like to know what u all think
> 
> Dean