[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Movie length

[Sherry Garfio]

--- Tim <tmarends at yahoo.com> wrote:

> If you watch old movies, like I do, then you'll notice that 
> most of the credits are actually at the beginning of the 
> films.  I think Star Wars was one of the early films that got 
> straight to the story and put all the credits at the end.  
> Films have been doing that now for the better part of 30 years.

I actually heard that Lucas got in big trouble with the guilds for not doing
opening credits on Star Wars.  It must not have fazed him, though, since he
continued to do it with the rest of the SW films, and now it's the norm.  I
like the new way.  Whenever I watch an old film that has several minutes of
credits before the film starts (except of course Monty Python and the Holy
Grail - those are hilarious), it just seems wrong.  A lot of films now call out
the director, producer, and main actors while the opening action is going on,
and that's fine too.

I watch the PoA credits every time I watch my DVD.  There's also a couple
dancing, a cat chasing the owls in the owlery, and somebody tapping their foot
to the music!  I like the fact that they had the main people's credits in GoF
on slips of smouldering paper, but we all had to pee too bad to stay and watch
the rest of the credits ;-).

Sherry Garfio


"Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open."
    -- Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire





		
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