Campaign to keep Sean Biggerstaff?

doliesl doliesl at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 8 20:34:50 UTC 2003


Well if no Wood implied the elimination of Quidditch, or Quidditch 
sequence became very minimal background thing...

I'm totally fine with that, I've seen enough quidditch in the SS & 
CoS already and am getting really tired of them (I skipped all the 
Quidditch chapters when I re-read the books anyways). Because I just 
don't see how it's ABSOLUTELY crucial to the major plotlines and 
themes of PoA, especially the significance of Wood. They could have 
change certain plot devices (ex: Draco's Trio faking Dementors) to 
something else that could make the film flow better. Again, NONE of 
us know how the script works or what's really on Alfonso's mind, so 
aren't you guys jump too fast on conclusion whether a film is "ruin" 
or not based solely on the these little tidbits we have right 
now ...the film just started filming for what...3 weeks??). 

Also it seems to me more of an artistic decision than monetary. 
Alfonso said he finds PoA more emotional than the 1st two (the 
Lupin/Sirius/Peter plotline I supposed), and maybe that's what he 
wants to put the film focus on. Instead of trying to show as much 
scenes possible from the book (but end up got everything in there 
except the soul and emotions), he rather sacrifice being slavish to 
the book, for the sake of illustrating the theme and emotions of PoA 
OVERALL as a better FILM. I felt the first two movies played more 
like collections of interdependent sequences/chapters, they worked 
more like visual campanions (not to mention very SAFE and 
PREDICTABLE) than a complete film with more artistic value. Maybe 
Alfonso wants more of a unify flow and central focuses, and these are 
the decisions he made. He said he wants to shake things up BIG time, 
I like that. Anyway I'm definitely really more excited (maybe a 
little fear, the pleasant kind, as in taking a risk) than being 
disappointed. 
       
-D







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