[HPFGU-Movie] Bigger names + bigger pay = smaller budget?

[artsylynda at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/22/2004 7:48:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com writes:

Sassy  here: I just worry that the financial end is causing a slight 
disloyalty  to the production - for example - the Gryffindor boy who 
was given lines  (like who is he - he wasn't in Harry's house from the 
start) is a way of  telling the secondary characters/actors that they 
are easily replaced.  

If other non-existent characters are given lines, then the secondary  
actors (Seamus, Dean, etc) can be replaced with an interchangable  
actor. If you start mixing up faces and lines, but keep the trio, the  
fans will not be upset. I for one, was very upset that Gryffindor kid  
had lines more than once, and the Slytherin boy also received a  
considerable amount of air time. I don't mind adding background  
extras, but if the original kids are in the film , they deserve the  
lines. Don't get me wrong - I believe the talent deserves to be paid  
their worth (especially Daniel) but don't sacrifice the secondary lot  
for a name, who may also take something away from the  character.



I couldn't imagine why they added those two boys  either.  It annoyed me 
quite a bit that they gave lines to those boys that  could've easily been given to 
Dean or Seamus (in the case of that Gryffindor  boy), or Malfoy's usual 
cohorts in that case.  That Gryffindor boy annoyed  me -- he just didn't belong -- 
he wasn't sorted into Gryffindor in the first  movie, so he wouldn't be in 
their Divination class unless he's a transfer  student, y'know?  How dumb does WB 
think we are to be foisting strangers  off on us and expecting us to accept 
that these are third-year  Gryffindors?  argh. . . .   

Lynda

"The cat's among the pixies now." Mrs. Figg,  OoP



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