[HPFGU-Movie] watered-down characters

[LeeMunLim03 at aol.com]

Here are my bitch points!  I have never made a movie but on the same token if 
you told everybody like on angel we are now revamping the cast!  Would you 
want to go see the movie or t.v program!  It depends, but look at dennis the 
menace or even the Flintstones!  Yes it comes down to cutting!  But why can't 
wood stay since his not in the goblet or have him in the deleted scenes which 
are now real big??  Cutting room floor film now in the dvd!! extra fotage!!  
Yes it does come to the director vision but on the same token the new 
director can go so far out that is doesnt look like the same thing!  What 
happens if they revamp the whole cast!  

It scares me that they could say well we don't need the main or minor cast 
because their too old!  Why??  In the books they grow up!

For me I will have to wait and see now.  Who is next to be on the cutting 
room floor??

Kyle Longbottom  

I am angry for the fact that they really dont care about the fans!  What 
would the problem be if they had wood?    



In a message dated 3/9/03 6:03:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, thalia at aokp.org 
writes:

> 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



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