Breaking GoF in half for 2 movies

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Meliss9900 at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 2/17/2003 3:02:35 AM Central Standard Time, 
> dianasdolls at y... writes:
> 
> 
> > If they chose to end the first movie after the first task instead, 
> > then Ron and Harry becoming friends again after their argument
> > would  be a good stopping point, I guess, but...Harry's name 
> > coming out of the Goblet would be a more dramatic ending point... 
>  :)
> > 
> > I'm really interested to hear where others would end the first 
> > movie if GoF was broken into two movies.  
> > 
> > Diana
> > 


> 
> I'm leaning towards after the first task.  Granted there are a lot 
> of things happening before his name comes out of the goblet, but 
> not nearly so much as afterwards. And I think that it would feel 
> like they had to cram everything into the second half.
> 
> Melissa  
> 

bboy_mn:

I agree with Melissa, I just finished reading GoF and intentionally
paid attention to what event was near the middle of the book and the
first task takes place near the middle. I think breaking it at Harry's
name is a little too close to the front of the book.

Of course, all this depends on the screen play and what they cut out.
They could shrink the first or second half substantially. So what will
really make the difference is where the middle of the screen play is. 

I think people will feel a little cheated if they just take it up to
Harry's name coming out. The first Lord of the Rings movie was a
little disappointing because it just stopped in the middle of no
where. I understood why, so I accepted it, but it really doesn't stand
on it's own much as a movie.

One thing to note is that while the movies do give us Quidditch, they
don't give us much. It's almost like token Quidditch. They know the
fans want  to see it, so they show a few brooms flying and move on.
That could me that they cut the Quidditch World Cup very short. Not
that the game is very long, but I can really see them trimming this
part down. That would make it easy to concentrate on the Goblet of
Fire scenes at school. I'm not saying I like or prefer that, but based
on what they have done in the other movies, I can see the Quidditch
angle getting cut short.

Just a few thoughts.

bboy_mn