[HPFGU-Movie] why I was uncomfortable with the Aunt Marge scene

[GulPlum]

At 00:34 16/06/04 , Carolyn replied to my previous post with:

>For whatever it's worth, I had gotten the impression that some time *had* 
>passed between Harry leaving the house and him arriving at the park.

I'm *really* not being argumentative here, I'm just trying to elicit an 
explanation for my own satisfaction: what gave you that impression? Yes, I 
know it's a difficult question to answer, but as I said before, there's a 
definite visual jolt between the two shots, which is the reason I agree 
that some people might infer a discontinuity. However, again the *action* 
seems fairly fluid and continuous: Harry's stride remains angry and 
defiant, his breathing is consistent from shot to shot, and I can see no 
dramatic reason for implying a pause in the action there. If he'd been 
walking for a while, his stride would have broken and his breathing would 
have slowed. This is exactly what happens when he stops and lays down the 
trunk.

To add to my previous pieces of Brit-specific trivia, the kind of housing 
estate on which the Dursleys live can generally be crossed from side to 
side fairly quickly (this isn't the USA, where there are huge spaces 
between houses). And virtually all of them have a traffic roundabout at 
their entrance. :-)

(The non-story reason for the discontinuity is glaringly obvious: the two 
sequences were not filmed at the same time, nor even on the same evening, 
but that's not what I'm talking about. Furthermore, from what I can gather 
from the set reports available online, these scenes were filmed in February 
- standing in for August. Brrrrr!) :-)

--
GulPlum AKA Richard, who isn't going to be able to catch up on everything 
before bedtime after all :-(