reason "no Wood" bothers me (was: Am I the only one? )

[Kewpie]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Calliope" <julia at t...> wrote:
> 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 

Come on! I really don't understand what's the big fuss is, since it's 
not like they never get rid of important stuffs before in the first 
two movies!!! How about the mentioning of James saving Snape in the 
first film? or what about Hermione solving Snape's puzzle? or any of 
the Potion class? or how about Peeves?! It's not like they never 
cut "important" stuffs before, so why the deletion of Wood would be 
ANY implications that's different from before? There are far more 
important elements in the story being deleted in the first 2 films 
than "wood cut from PoA" too. Honestly, Wood is pretty much as 
important as Peeves, just another fun background characters to enrich 
the Potter world, aka disposable elements for the too-short-to-filled-
every-single-detail-in-movies,


> 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 

True, but the above can completely be done without Wood's actual 
appearance. They can just digitally add him in the background to 
indicate the existence of other players. And it's not like Wood is 
any important in the dementor plot deive too.

> 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

two words: computer graphic!

And it would be logically they cut the whole Quidditch cup thing 
since this "cup" was never mentioned in the first two movies. Most 
audience beside book fans wouldn't care about it anyways. If they 
made a big deal about the Quidditch cup, it'll end up like the whole 
over dramatic "standing ovation for Hagrid" thing in the end of CoS. 
Audience who never read the book would be confuse "what's the big 
deal with the cup? just get on with the story!"


Joan