Broom Chase Scene was Re: World Cup and OoP film

[Eustace_Scrubb]

Lynda wrote:
> On the OoP front -- there's an article on Leaky today talking about
> Harry doing a "James Bond-type chase scene" on a broom flying down  
> the  Thames!  The location manager is having trouble getting all
> the  17  governmental districts to agree to let them film there -- 
> they want to include  shots of all the "recognizable" things along 
> the Thames.  But when would  Harry be doing a CHASE scene along the
> Thames???  He should be riding a  thestral to the Ministry's
> Visitor's Entrance with his five friends -- what's up  with this
> idea????  Or do  you suppose he gets separated from his guard on
> the way to Grimmauld Place the first time???  Ideas?

Eustace_Scrubb:
I hope that the second idea you mentioned is closer to the mark!  It
might not represent quite so much messing with the book as the
flying-to-rescue-Sirius idea.

However, I can imagine that the film makers would love to have a way
out of the threstral scenes.  In the books readers only "see" the
threstrals because we're seeing from Harry's POV.  The movies don't
quite work that way, of course, and the audience shouldn't really see
the threstrals that the 6 students are riding.  So we _should_ just
see them riding through thin air, not a concept that the film makers
are apt to be too keen on, I'm afraid.

Cheers,

Eustace_Scrubb