JKR's comments on the movie

[Diana]

"Annalisa Moretti" <grianne2 at y...> wrote:
  
> Now, JKR, as we all know, is very blunt. I highly doubt she would 
> give a good opinion of the movie just because Warner Brothers told 
> her to. Therefore, my concerns over the Shrieking Shack scenes 
being 
> cut -- which were only partially because of the effect it had on 
the 
> plot of the movie, but instead focused mainly on whether this 
would 
> prove disastrous for the plot of the overarching series -- are 
> considerably calmed by the fact that she has shown no qualms over 
> them. Personally, I would very much like to hear her say something 
> specifically on those scenes. But I have some faith in her opinion.
 
I agree with you.
JK Rowling would not say she loved the film if she did not.  She 
might say she 'liked' it or that she liked the acting or the sets, 
but I highly doubt she would enthuse over this film as much as she 
had if she really didn't like it.  
In an interview I had read, Alfonso Curaon originally wanted to cut 
Professor Trelawney entirely out of the movie.  JK 
Rowling 'suggested' that that was NOT a good idea and she 'advised' 
him strongly against it due to Trelawney's importance in later books 
(at least through book 5, so far).  And the director also had wanted 
tiny people jumping on piano keys to accompany the Hogwarts choir 
scene.  JKR nixed that and told Curaon flat out that there were NO 
tiny people in the Harry Potter universe.  
If something is important to future plots or to her over-riding 
vision of the world she alone created, then Rowling does speak up 
and will tell the director so.  It stands to reason then that if a 
vital detail important to books 6 & 7 was in the PoA book, but left 
out of the PoA movie, she would have objected to it's exclusion 
quite strongly.  She has two more books yet to write, so she would 
understandably be very protective of her creations and how much of 
the central narrative thread and purpose of the story was retained 
in the films based on those books.      

Diana L.
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