movies vs. books. The 4 HP movies...

[phoenix_kevin]

That is so true about adapting the Harry Potter books into movie 
format. A dear friend of mine is a writer and director of films and 
television. I had privilege of sitting in on some classes he was 
doing on the subject of writing for plays, tv and movies. One thing 
I learned is that one minute of a movie or tv is equal to one page 
on a script. If a film is 150 minutes (2 1/2 hours) then there are 
usually about 150 pages in the script. Because of the demands of 
movie format there has been and will be alot of material from the 
books cut out, but I think they've done a remarkable job of keeping 
the over all storline and the feeling of the books intact in the 
movies so far. I'm looking forward to seeing OotP when it comes to 
the screen.


--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, juli17 at a... wrote:
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> Regarding adapting the movies from the books, we should remember
> that PS/SS and COS were fairly simple books with straight-forward
> plotlines. Thus it was relatively easy to adapt them to 2 1/2-3 hr 
> movies in a nearly word-for-word fashion. Starting with POA the
> books have gotten progressively longer and more complex, making 
> it impossible to adapt them each to a single movie without 
sacrificing
> some of the lesser plotlines. 
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> So in a sense it's unfair to compare PS/SS and COS with later 
movies
> in terms of close adherence to the books. That time is over, and 
> with OotP, there's sure to be more cuts than ever. We can only 
> hope that the cuts are made judiciously. Which for me means as
> little of the Giants as possible (please, please, please!). I know 
they
> will already be there, but no more than a minute or two to 
establish
> Grawp and Hagrid's relationship, I hope. But we all have our 
preferences,
> and some of us are bound to be a little disappointed in what's 
missing.
> Nothing to do but enjoy what we get, which I have so far.
>  
> Julie 
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