Shorthand in Film(was dark films, but morphed)

[susanbones2003]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Theresa" <anmsmom333 at ...> wrote:
>
>> >
> I too am glad the Hogwarts song was left out but some of the other 
> scenes I liked. I really wish they had left in the Snape scene 
that 
> seemed important to me, especially since we only had a log on fire 
> for Sirius. I was wholly disappointed to not have the cave scene 
in 
> the film. I think it would have made more sense if they had the 
trio 
> visit him in the cave and chat about the tournament and 
> the "suspected death eaters". My hubby who has only seen the films 
> told me afterwords that if our sons and I had not talked so much 
> about what we wanted to see prior to the film and chatted about 
what 
> we liked in the film afterwords that he would not have understood 
the 
> fact that Karkaroff and Snape knew each other, had been death 
eaters, 
> Karkaroff rolled over on his fellow death eaters and Snape appears 
to 
> be a good guy working for Dumbledore (he knows about HBP because 
we 
> were aghast at the outcome). I also wish they had left the little 
> snippet of Harry trying to get Cho's attention. Those are the two 
I 
> wish had stayed in. Some of the others were OK too and would not 
have 
> added much time to the film but the Hogwarts song, extended Weird 
> Sisters song (just wish they had some of the looking at the band 
more 
> than the crowd in the film - they were Weird looking) and the 
> Quidditch scene in my humble opinion were appropriately chopped.


Hi there,
I was reading your message when it struck me how very well all the 
deleted scenes worked in the first 2 films. It seems they were cut 
merely to get the film below a certain time limit. ABC Family shows 
both SS/COS from time to time with all the deletes. I really enjoy 
them. I can not say the same thing at all for the deletes from GOF. 
They seem to be abrupt, with little to get us ready for them and not 
much to add. Even Snape and Karkarov were not given in enough 
context for a non-fan (your very courageous husband) to make their 
conversation intelligible. That's the one thing that bothers me 
about the films. As they get deeper and deeper into the story, they 
become more and more obscure to a non-fan. It seems a given that a 
film should hold together in and of itself. Our HP films have become 
a lot more clubby than is comfortable for me. I realize that almost 
everyone in the civilized world has heard of/read HP but it still 
seems to violate the nature of a narrative to rely on having read 
the books to make sense of the event. 
Jen D. (quickly putting her hands over her head to sheild herself 
from the blows from angry film-lovers)
>