[HPFGU-Movie] breaking GoF in half for two movies

[Jeremy Davis]

I very rarely post, and will probably get flamed for this but.....

Couldn't the Quiddich Championships get greatly shorted to fit everything in
the one film? I found the first half of the book a bit boring to be honest.
:-) Controversial I know, so sorry, peace!

----- Original Message -----
From: <ArtsyLynda at aol.com>
To: <HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: [HPFGU-Movie] breaking GoF in half for two movies


> Diana wrote:
>
> > For me, the logical breaking point for the end of the first movie
> > would be just after Harry's name comes out of the Goblet of Fire as
> > the fourth champion.  They could cut to Harry's face expressing
> > shock and disbelief...add a 'to be continued
> >
> I think that would be the most logical place to break it, too.  When I
read
> the book, it read almost like two books, with so much time devoted to the
> World Quiddich Championships and so forth, it and the Tri-Wizard
Tournament
> each felt like an entire book in itself.  I would love to see GoF done as
two
> movies so we don't lose too much of the story.  I sure hope some of the
movie
> folks are listening to us about this!!  How do we give them our input?
> Anybody know?  I'm new to this fandom, but in other fandoms I've been
> involved in, we made our voices heard to the producers of the films or TV
> series and in many cases, they did listen to us.  Is that true in the
> Potterverse?  (Not that I want us to have a stronger voice than JKR, but I
> think they should know what we'd like. . . then again, maybe they know
what
> we want most is MORE MORE MORE Harry Potter!!  And to be true to the
books!
> ;->)
>
> Lynda
> * * *
> "Don't let  the Muggles get you down." Ron Weasley PoA
>
>
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