[HPFGU-Movie] GoF movie

[artsylynda at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/25/2003 4:33:22 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com writes:

> With Goblet of Fire, 
> however, you have a child who has just been yanked into a very unexpected 
> setting, has several adults standing around him, masked, intent on 
> intimidating and threatening him; has to watch as a servant willingly has 
> his hand cut off - even though the servant knows that it will be quite 
> painful and demonstrates the anticipation of that pain through his fear; 
> sees someone he's come to consider something of a friend (and to whom the 
> audience is very likely to be sympathetic) coldly murdered; and has to 
> watch as his greatest enemy is "reborn" into a new body, after which the 
> enemy plans to kill him.   That's a much scarier and emotionally traumatic 
> scenario - especially for children - than the confrontation between Luke 
> and Darth is - at least in my opinion.
> 

But in typical movie fashion, they will probably take the camera away from 
Wormtail's actions as he cuts off his hand, and show Harry's reaction to what 
goes on, and you'll hear Wormtail scream and moan and all that, and then the 
camera will show him dropping the hand into the cauldron, or maybe they won't 
even be that graphic, but will just show him clutching his by-then-wrapped stump 
of an arm.  Later we'll have confirmed visually what happened when we see the 
silver hand appear on his arm.  That's not gory, just tense, as is much of the 
rest of the scene preceding and after that.  It's SUPPOSED to be scary.  Kids 
actually like scary stuff (remember Grimm's Fairy Tales?  Yikes!)  It will 
work, and I know there are ways to make it PG-13 if they want to.  

Lynda 
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". . .the cat's among the pixies now."  Mrs. Figg, OoP


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