[HPFGU-Movie] reason "no Wood" bothers me (was: Am I the only one? )

[LeeMunLim03 at aol.com]

No but it would be nice to have wood play quitditch one last time!  I think 
Eleanor Columbus is not in it either!  She is not intregal to the Harry 
Potter universe either!  How are they going to have the match if he is not 
there!!  He is the captain of the team at least for the Prisoner!!


Kyle Longbottom 



In a message dated 3/8/03 3:01:31 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
julia at thequiltbug.com writes:

> Kewpie wrote:
> 
> >>am I really the only one who think the deletion of Oliver Wood will 
> NOT play a vital factor in the quality of the film at all?!?! Are 
> some of you really serious when you said the film is "ruined" because 
> there'll be no Wood!?!
> 
> Honestly, I really don't understand what the fuss with all these 
> complaining about Wood not being in POA at all. Really, for those who 
> overreact at that please think about this: is Wood really THAT 
> important and vital to the major plot!? PoA is a much longer story 
> than PS and CoS, it introduced essential new  
> characters/creatures/flashback of the past, in comparison, Wood is 
> completely a disposable elements to the story.
> 
> 
> Me:
> 
> It's not so much the actual lack of Wood, but the implications of "if they 
> get
> rid of this character, what else do they get rid of?"  Quidditch is more
> important to this book than the rest (meeing Cho for first time; bad 
> encounter
> with the dementors causing Harry to lose Snitch for first time, which I 
> feel
> really SHOULD be in the movie as him ALWAYS winning smacks of Hollywood
> sappiness; Cedric's first appearance and his noble gesture of wanting a 
> rematch
> in the dementor-affected game; success in casting the Patronus against the
> Dementors - he thinks - which turn out to be Malfoy et al; Harry's extreme
> happiness when they win the Cup).  The Cho and Cedric bits especially have
> implications for movie #4, should it ever be made - Harry's crush and 
> Cedric's
> goodness.
> 
> Quidditch is not a solo sport, so the only way to get these points in is to 
> have
> Harry play with the *team*, including the captain.  I guess you could have 
> the
> matches without actually showing all the players; but it seems stupid to at
> least not have him in the background a la Katie/Angelina/Alicia even if he 
> never
> has a single line.  Angelina being a prime example; to my knowledge, she 
> never
> had a line in either of the first two movies, but we knew who she was as LJ
> mentioned her names several times in commentary.  We saw her and Wood 
> several
> times in non-Quidditch scenes with the Gryffindor masses such as in the 
> Great
> Hall at meals, in the common room when McGonagall addressed them after
> Hermione's petrification, and in the Hagrid lurve fest at the end.  They're 
> part
> of the atmosphere of the place, just like when you return to school you 
> expect
> certain people to be there whether you actually hang out with them or not.  
> 
> 
> Someone said in an earlier post that maybe they're going to pretend that 
> Wood
> has left school already. What is the point of that other than to play fast 
> and
> loose with canon for no reason?  Is the Quidditch team going to consist 
> solely
> of Harry, Fred, and George?  If not, they have to fill the other 4 spots 
> with
> *someone*, even if just to be in the background, to show the game.  Why not 
> fill
> the background with the same people that really should be there in the 
> first
> place? This just smacks of messing around with canon for the heck of it, 
> and not
> for a real purpose.  Next thing you know they'll say "well, let's make 
> Harry
> captain now, since it's Hollywood and all, and he's the hero of the 
> story..." 
> Wouldn't winning the Quidditch cup and the resultant Gryffindor lurve fest 
> be a
> good enouch "touchy feely moment" for Hollywood?  (Better than the 
> manufactured
> Hagrid lurve  fest...)  Again, how can you have a team celebration without 
> the
> team?
> 
> And I don't think they're keeping Wood and recasting...Biggerstaff's 
> website
> makes it clear that the *character* was cut, not the actor.
> 
> There's no Wood...*honestly*...
> 
> Calliope
> 
> (who will be extremely disappointed if Oliver Wood is cut, but somehow 
> Eleanor
> Columbus returns as Susan Bones, who is even *less* integral to the plot 
> than
> Oliver Wood...)



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