How "true" does Cuaron have to be? was Re: Cedric Diggory cut from PoA

[Ali <Ali@zymurgy.org>]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Richelle Votaw" <rvotaw at i...> 
wrote:

 << Is it possible to cut Quidditch entirely?  To the story line in 
general, I mean?  It would be a butchering of the story as a whole. >>

This has made me wonder. How true must Cuaron be to the books? I know 
that Heyman promised JKR a fairly strict interpretation, but is 
Cuaron bound to follow that? I know that Columbus and Heyman are 
still producers, but what sort of "artistic licence" will Cuaron be 
allowed? Will he be allowed to tamper with the script if he considers 
it too pedestrian?

To date, there have been a number of complaints that in trying to be 
too true to the books, the films became a little, let's say laborious 
or lacklustre. It's a no-win situation though isn't it, because I for 
one will be polishing my LOON badge and complaining the minute I 
catch a whiff of variation from the books. 

I just wonder how PoA would be viewed if it was a much "better" film, 
but less true to the images brought to us by JKR? I think it would be 
possible to have PoA without Quidditch. Harry could come across the 
dementors in a different setting, but it wouldn't be PoA as we know 
it, and it would exclude a part of Harry that we know to be very 
important to him - it's the only thing he thinks he's any good at. 


Ali

Who asks not to be flamed for calling the films laborious etc, as she 
was trying to thinking of one term to describe the many complaints 
she's read. Whatever the faults in PS and CoS she still finds herself 
sadly addicted