Cuaron talks about movie cuts

[Annalisa Moretti]

www.the-leaky-cauldron.org has posted a transcript of Cuaron's 
appearance on FOX News. ALSO, Cuaron will be on Charlie Rose 
TONIGHT, and hopefully he will talk more on this subject.

Here's two important pieces (LV is Linda Vester by the way, not Lord 
Voldemort ^_-):

LV: You know there were certain things, though, that are a little 
bit different. Is it true that you had to ask, or at least wanted to 
ask, JK Rowling – you know, for instance, on changing what the kids 
wore – you know, is it okay if they wear their street clothes – 

AC: That was her idea. 

LV: Really? That was her idea? She told you?

AC: Yeah.

LV: And it's really true that she said, look, don't be too literal 
with the book.

AC: Yeah. What she said is she didn't want it to be literal. She 
said be faithful to the spirit of the book, but don't be literal. 
And together with that she said, you know, I think that the uniforms 
are really good, but they shouldn't wear the uniforms unless they 
are doing academic things. You know, when they are doing things in 
their personal lives they should wear their street clothes.

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And:

Audience Member: I noticed, um, there was lots of foreshadowing in 
the third book that kind of leads to the fourth book and explains it 
a little better and I noticed that it was kind of left out. 
Particularly at the end of the third movie and I was curious if that 
was deliberate, or like how the fourth movie will be, especially 
because there's going to be a new director.

AC: Well, yeah, what happened is that you have to discriminate a lot 
when you are doing an adaptation. And we decided to just adapt 
everything that was relevant to the theme of a kid growing into a 
teenager. And pretty much we had to leave everything else, whatever 
didn't stick to that theme, we had to let it go. And that was one of 
those things. And yes, I know, it's setting up for the fourth one, 
but in the fourth one they are taking elements of the third to do 
the set up for the fourth.

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All in all, very interesting! And it seems many of the Shrieking 
Shack scenes that are gone will show up in the fourth movie.

If only GoF was two movies though. How are they going to fit all of 
that in there?

-- Annalisa