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

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Ali <Ali at z...>" <Ali at z...> wrote:

>  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? 
> 
> Ali

Is Cuaron bound to the Heyman agreement? He is if he wants to keep his
job. He has probably the most knowledgable and critical audience in
the world. 'Tick' them off, and the franchise dies, or at least drops
from the top rated down to the middle/mundane somewhere.

Cuaron has a story to tell. I can handle changes to the plot as long
as the overal story is correct. Many, many, many movie adapted from
books take no more than a seed of an idea from the book. The movie is
completely unrecognisable relative to the book, they become two
separate unrelated things beyond technical legal requirements. 

The franchise has to continue; billions are at stake. New books are
going to be written, and only a fool of a director would create a
movie that killed or so massiveley complicate as to kill, any future
extensions of the franchise. 

He has to stay true to the story, but he doesn't have to stay true to
the book. (if that makes any sense)

There has been an on going dialog about Quidditch and how it will be
handled because there are sigificant plot points that are advanced in
the games.

Solution that is true to the story but not true to the book. 

Note: So far the movies have only allowed one quidditch game. 

Now condensing everything into one game. 

Harry faints on the train and is embarassed, so he ask Lupin to help
him protect himself from the dementors. Plot point advanced without
quidditch.

One quidditch game in which the Dementors come, Harry gets weak but
manages to cast a Petronus before he falls off is broom. Dementors
defeated, Harry cast the charm, Lupin congradulates him, Harry gets
back on his broom and wins the game. Badda-bing badda-boom.

Now all we have to do is get Harry a Firebolt. Simple, his other broom
doesn't break. He simple gets a new one from Sirius for Christmas.
Hermione, McGonagall, take broom, Wood freaks, broom comes back, Harry
wins game.

What happens to his old broom? It was given to him by the school. It's
not really his. It's on loan from the school until he graduates. Katie
Bell gets it instead (or whatever)

So the key elements of the story are there, but several things are
left out. It's enough to get a Quidditch game in the movie, hit key
plot points, and move the story along.

So changes like this are tolerable when you consider that they are
never going to have even remotely enought time to tell the whole story.

Sorry, but we lose Draco & company as fake Dementors.

Just a few thoughts.

bboy_mn