[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Would Columbus get rid of Cuaron?

[Kriselda Jarnsaxa]

ihatethis99in recently mentioned:

>If the movie does badly (and it could very well do badly, Curaon is
>taking one hell of a risk by radically departing from JKR's set
>story line)

What departures is he making?  Do we know how many of them are definately 
Curaon's and how many where written into the script by Steve Kloves?  I 
mean my questions seriously. The only real departure I've heard of is that 
there's a lot less Quidditch in the movie than there is in the book, and so 
some of the Quidditch characters (such as Oliver Wood) aren't being used.

>The problem with the Harry Potter property (and you can be sure that
>Warner Bros. treats as such) is that the money lies with the massive
>number of patrons who've read the book and want to see what they've
>read faithfully rendered on screen - because if this, all of the
>four movies have an instant audience - and this is the massive
>audience that Columbus made use of.

Agreed - and I imagine that Warner Brothers will do what they have to so 
that Cuaron doesn't put the franchise at risk.

>Curaon made changes so drastic that he even saw it fit to change the
>name of the protogonist from Pip to Finn (as if Pip wasn't hep or
>modern enough for him). Let's just hope that he doesn't change our
>beloved hero's name from Harry Potter to Larry Rotter and change the
>location of Azkaban to Azarbaijan!

I think we can be pretty well assured that he won't be making changes like 
that.  As for Great Expectations, I would ask the same question - do we 
know what changes were generated by Cuaron and what were made by the 
scriptwriter?  I don't know much about the production of that movie, so I'm 
not sure if Cuaron went to the producers and told them he had an idea for 
an update of Great Expectations set in modern New York City, or if the 
producers came to him and said they had a script updating Great 
Expectations to modern New York City and asked him to direct it.

Believe me, I understand being worried about how something's going to come 
out - I'm still not convinced that Gary Oldman will do a good job as 
Sirius, but I am willing to give him a chance.  I know that there are many 
people involved in making this movie, and all of them are aware of not only 
how important it is that they turn out a product that respects JK Rowling's 
vision of the story, but also meets, if not exceeds, the expectations of 
the audience.  I just have to trust that they know what they're doing and 
that the movie will be everything we hope it will be.

Kriselda


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