[HPFGU-Movie] Re: What I would have done...

[Karen]

On Tuesday, January 31, 2006, at 05:53 PM, susanbones2003 wrote:
> This is where GOF loses me. So many things
> were right, why drop the ball in the last few scenes? It is going to
> make the opening of OOTP challenging. In the last scene, Harry was
> positively serene. How are we going to transition to CAPSLOCK Harry
> without spending a lot of time setting up his isolation and the
> grief and shock he was experiencing at the end of GOF? Remember,he
> was happiest when he was with Ron and Hermione and they were talking
> and he was just sitting there. He couldn't be with others easily.
> But this Harry seemed to have managed to take it all in pretty well.
> They are going to do some fancy footwork to get us an angry Harry.
>

I can understand their dilemma. Even though it's an ongoing story, they 
try to keep the movies somewhat self contained and not have carry over 
payoffs (for instance, we know they are including the St. Mungo stuff 
in OoTP because it looks like Lockhart is back, but they didn't punch 
up Harry knowing Neville's parents are there for crucio induced 
insanity - leading to the big punch of Neville's character in OoTP). I 
suppose they wanted "closure". But it seems to me, when the franchise 
is very much established that they could risk a little bit of openness. 
It worked for Spiderman. Really the only disappointing aspect for me 
(and I can really get over it) but dang they COULD have done it!!!