watered-down characters

[chanteuse thalia chaunacy]

Kyle Longbottom wrote: "I want the same cast for the whole nine yards! It 
bothers me that the water down the twins, colin creevey's and a lot of 
the rest of their parts except for the main ones!"

first: the whole nine yards? meaning what? <confused look> the whole 
movie series?

moving on... (and this is to everyone who's complained with such 
bitterness, not just Kyle)

i repeat a previous question: you ever tried to make a movie out of a 
book? try it, i dare you.  write the the HP script as you want it, then 
time it. bet you it's over four hours. bet you. prolly more like five, 
with action.

watering down is necessary, and i'll tell you why.

in theatre, one page of dialogue equals one minute of time on stage. this 
does not account for action sequences or close-ups or montages or any of 
that additional movie-type stuff.

PS is 309 pages. that's 5.15 hours. CoS is 341 pages, which is 5.684 
hours. PoA is 435 pages, or 7.25 hours. besides, there are zillions of 
sequences in which tons happens in two paragraphs, difficult at best to 
translate to film. granted, i'm going off of the US versions. somebody 
wanna do this with the UK versions? maybe it's more doable for PS & CoS. 
<shrug>, but i don't think you can argue with PoA or GoF. they're just 
too long for a 'faithful' 2.5+/- hour movie.

so -- beyond the whole 'they should have made it a mini-series' 
argument, which is valid but neither here nor there -- how do you make it 
a movie? you cut. well, *what* do you cut?

there's the issue.

well, why are you making a movie? because the plot's exciting and the 
characters are interesting, right? i don't think anyone can tell me the 
plots of PS/CoSmovies weren't exciting or that the characters were boring.

so logically, the makers did their job.

but this is our baby, our canon, and we all have our own visions, which 
of course will never be exactly reached.

so ya'll get angry.

now, this doesn't make sense to me. disappointed, i'll go with, but 
negative energy *towards* those involved in the making is megolamaniacal 
and misplaced. all they did was use their vision. this is not an offense. 
this is a *translation*. why do you have the right to belittle them? do 
you yell at fanfic writers too?

thalia 'earning her b*tch points for the day' chaunacy