Ray Bradbury/Cuaron's style

[Dean]

Greatings fellow eggheads

> Anyway I can't wait for the movie. I'm not too fussed about them 
leaving 
> this part and that part out of the story, when I go to see a movie, 
I go to 
> see a movie, not a book onscreen. My gripe with the HP movies has 
always 
> been that, as films, they've concentrated too much on plot and 
cramming in 
> as much story as possible, a lot of it unnecessary, had waaaaay to 
much 
> expositional dialogue (which is due to just plain laziness in my 
opinion),

I think the problem with the first two movies is that the harry 
potter books did 2 things very well, first they had a very good plot 
and secondly the magical world is so interesting that i could read 
about it all day with out any plot. I think the movies tried do do 
both of these things and as a result failed at both. I think for a 
Harry Potter film to be well made the only focas can be the plot and 
judging by the trailer( i know its not much to go on) that is what is 
been done.

The also helps that POA is the most plot driven book so far. In GOF 
most of the screen time will be taken up by the tri wizard comp and 
voldie just happens to appear at the end. If you can make a coherent 
plot line out of OotF let me know ( don' attack me i loved it i just 
think it will make a bad movie)

 
> and have been visually cliched ('hey, let's shoot Lucius from a low 
angle 
> and bathe him in shadow in every scene, just in case the audience 
hasn't yet 
> realised that he's EVIL')and the cinematography etc has often been 
static, 
> repetitive and boring. Cuaron seems to have solved this problem and 
is 
> showing us the story, not telling us 

I couldnt agree more the first to films have been very pretty to look 
at but thats about all, they ave none of the depth that i can already 
see in POA, ( or mayby im just seeing what i want to)




>which, and I know I'll probably have 
> to duck rotten fruit here, after reading those huge chunks of 
unending 
> description in Book 5, I reckon J.K. Rowling could probably learn 
to do a 
> bit better herself). I think this is already my favourite HP movie 
and I 
> haven't even seen it yet!
> 
> - Ash's Evil Hand

i disagree with you a bit here i find in novels good authors can get 
way with unending descriptions it's just that waffle dosnt translate 
well into film

The only thing that could destroy POA for me is my unrealistic 
expectations


DEAN