breaking GoF in half for two movies

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--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Jeremy Davis" <jmd at j...> wrote:
> 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!

I am not going to flame you for stating your opinion. Although I 
loved the World Cup scene in the movie I don't hink it should not be 
cut for that reason alone. So much is revealed at the World Cup that 
you would need a great deal of time to put it all in. All the things 
and people are very important to the story and I think it is 
necessary for the people who have never read the books to see the 
match and get to know all the new charactors and see all the events 
that unfold at the match. 

I must admit that I would like them to make two movies out of it, not 
just for the fact that there is too much to fit into one move, but 
for the fact that it would mean 2 HP's in one year!! by that time we 
will all be anctiously awaiting the 6th book and two movies will give 
us something to take our minds off of it.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <ArtsyLynda at a...>
> 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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> >
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