GOF script

Tim tmarends at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 3 04:04:41 UTC 2004


--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Sherry Garfio <sgarfio at y...> 
wrote:
> --- hermionekitten9 <kreneeb at h...> wrote:
> > kitten: Yes... it looks like another fun-filled adventure- 
> > extravaganza entitled Hermione Granger and the Goblet of Fire...
> > 
> > kitten... who can't help but roll her eyes at Steve Kloves
> 
> Point well taken, and it always really bothers me when he gives 
Ron's more
> intelligent lines to Hermione just to show us how smart she is.  
OTOH, I did
> like how they used her in PoA to verbalize what Harry was thinking 
in the book.
>  I'm referring to the scene near the end where Harry is waiting for 
his dad to
> come and save the day.  They could have done that with a dorky 
voiceover, or he
> could have been talking to himself, but I think it worked well 
having Hermione
> there.  The dialogue between the two of them mimics Harry's thought 
process
> from the book without being contrived.  This is one of those things 
you can do
> in a book, but it doesn't work so well in a film.
> 
> The script excerpt from GoF looks similar.  In the book, Harry is 
very
> introspective here, so film Hermione can play the same role she did 
by the lake
> in PoA.  Meanwhile, they've also compressed a few different plot 
lines into a
> short time - hinting at Hermione/Krum, Rita Skeeter's article about
> Harry/Hermione, a bit of exposition about Barty Crouch's past.  It 
sounds like
> a fun scene, loaded with clues.  In any case, the dragon fight 
itself should be
> stunning!
> 
> Sherry Garfio
> 

The other thing to remember is that Harry and Ron aren't talking to 
each other at this point in the story.  So obviously Hermione would 
be there and not Ron.

Tim







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