[HPFGU-Movie] Re: OOTP Movie

[Karen]

On Jul 11, 2007, at 9:15 PM, ne4lock wrote:

> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "bridgetteakabiit"
> <bridgetteakabiit at ...> wrote:
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>> For those who haven't seen this movie, I'll mention that these
>> two points from a previous poster.
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>> Point 1.
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>> "... Fiance... had NO idea what was going on. I did not feel they
>> explained hardly anything. They had the important elements in the
>> movie, but didn't explain what they were."
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> I merely think that Rowling has decided to let Hollywood have its
> way. Hollywood sees this movie as a 'Teen flick' and nothing more.
> Why would they want anything such as conversation or explanation
> to slow down the story. Get folks in, make them buy popcorn and
> get them out is all that a movie is supposed to do.
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> Have you noticed that many reviews of excellent movies such as
> the 'Queen' complain about the amount of conversation?
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> Besides, current movies are as the last three Potter films, are
> gadget and effects laden messes? Who needs plot, story or continuity
> when you can lovingly spend TWENTY minutes on marginal scenes such
> as the 'Luna', 'Department of Mysteries', 'Flying to London',
> and 'GRAWP' episodes. If each of these silly scenes had been cut,
> more of the books plot could have been included. Sad.
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> Worse, they included scences not in the book, such as all the twins
> talking to little Michael. Sigh.
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I actually loved that scene and thought even though it wasn't in the  
book, since they DID cut the quidditch stuff and broom banning it was  
a great lead in to the "final rebellion" crystallizing the twins  
resolve. They traded what would have take 30 minutes of added story  
and footage and put it in a 30 second scene.

It's interesting though because while I think the manner of Sirius's  
death is a non-point (sorry guys. Just don't feel that has ever been  
in contention quite like apparently the rest of you do) I wouldn't  
consider Luna or the Department of Mysteries, at least, to be silly  
things to keep in. Especially the DOM. I mean, that IS a major focal  
point of the book.