Foreshadowing in PoA

[susanbones2003]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "bgrugin" <bgrugin at ...> wrote:
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> My family just finished watching the 3rd movie (we've been watching 
> all of them - what else do you do when you're sick?), and I started 
> thinking about what JKR said about the 3rd film and how something in 
> it foreshadowed someting coming up in a later book. 

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Betsy,
> I think you made a point, about "foreshadowing" (Up "Spooky" music). 
Has Jo ever told us what she was talking about? I am going back to 
watch the "fall from the astronomy tower" scene now. I'd like to know. 
I'd always assumed it was something relationship-oriented. Something 
squishy... But I'd take a hard fact like that as long as we knew. If we 
don't "know," I tend to wonder, is there more?

For all the old-timers, I won't bore you with my dislikes of POA on 
film. They are well-known and probably not much different than your own 
(can we all say "Crying scene?") but I will say in the movie's favor, I 
enjoyed the scene with Harry and Lupin on the bridge. The richness of 
the scenery just remains fixed in my mind. The green of the hills! 
Harry's excellent eyes. I still remember him scratching his ear or 
something. Two faces, each telling a very good story. I think Cuaron's 
eye for the setting of a thing is so important but it's also quirky. 
Scenes like Hagrid's hut just seemed oddly inconvenient. But other 
scenes, the village! That was just out of a storybook! 

Don't tell anyone, but I haven't seen OOTP. I couldn't bring myself to. 
I was so afraid of what would happen to the longest book being the 
shortest film. I will see it and I hope I like it, but given how 
difficult it has been to bring these books to film with any semblance 
of continuity, I don't know what to expect. It just seems to get harder 
and harder with a studio less and less willing to do what needst o be 
done. I don't want to see Daniel, Rupert and Emma trying to make sense 
of a story that is more like swiss cheese than a credible, intelligible 
plotline. Okee dokee, got that out of my system....
Jen D. back and probably forgotten!
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