[HPFGU-Movie] Re: My second viewing and some things I realized

[Valerie Flowe]

From: "huntergreen_3" <patientx3 at aol.com>
Here's a question I have about that (for all of you who were very 
annoyed by that being left out), is it just that they wrote the map 
that you're upset about, or the whole backstory (with the animagus 
transformations and all)? Personally, of the things that bugged me 
about the film, that was one of the smallest. I know they wrote the 
map and the movie hints at it (they didn't change it completely - 
Sirius and Lupin clearly know all about it), and in the book the fact 
that they wrote the map is slipped into the middle of the Shrieking 
Shack scene with very little emphasis (Lupin says something to the 
effect of "Of course I know how to work it, I helped write it."). Now 
if you're talking about the animagus stuff, then that I understand, 
because that's a whole chapter. Personally, I think it would have 
been awkward in the movie, and on multiple readings it felt sort of 
awkward in the book (it was just too much of a digression, in the 
middle of the heavy situation). I think part of the reason for that 
large bit of exposition (which doesn't *quite* fit into the subject 
at hand), was to have something for Snape to overhear without him 
hearing anything important.


[frm Valerie]

The thing I love so much about the HP books is that with each one, they delve 
further and further into the Voldemort storyline, the parents, Sirius, Lupin, 
etc. It's a fascinating mystery that JKR takes her time in unfolding. (I can't 
wait to hear the real story behind why Snape hates Harry so much, and how he 
became a Death Eater; why Dumbledore now trusts him enough to employ him, etc.) 
That's why I dislike seeing these great storylines cut back in the films. I did 
notice that, although I would've like to have seen more background explanation 
in the film, that the younger kids in the audience were squirming and bored 
during any descriptive scenes. So again, the director  has to balance the story 
between his huge viewing audience age span (say, 4 years old to 84 years 
old?!?!) You have to admit, that's a big challenge. Eventually they'll have to 
stop trying to please and appeal to everyone and just make the darn movie loyal 
to the book.


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