Bittersweet (with an OT tangent thrown in)

[Cat]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...> 
wrote:
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>Yates's Phoenix will be the only one of the (now 8)
> movies where the screenplay was not written by Mike Newell, it was
> written by Michael Goldenberg.
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>   Eggplant

Not meaning to pick nits here but Mike Newell Directed GoF and Steve 
Kloves wrote the screenplay for GoF (as he did for SS/PP, CS, PoA, 
HBP and will be HD I & II). You are correct in that Michael 
Goldenberg did write the screenplay for OotP.

Granted the screenwriter and the director have to work together in 
the creation process of the film ... but let's not forget the true 
Grand Creatrix of the whole WW herself JKR.

She allows people their own creative "head" except when their 
creations will negatively impact future happenings in the saga ... 
Remember how she insisted that Kreacher be left in OotP? And the only 
thing she would reveal was that if they didn't they would really be 
writing themselves into a corner when book #7 came out. Also, she put 
the kibosh on a throw away line in the script about Dumbledore having 
a crush on a girl while he was at Hogwarts? (I think that was OotP)
Revealing then, matter-of-factly that Dumbledore was gay. 

In terms of loyalty to JKRs literary work and working very closely 
with her, I think Steve Kloves has done a fine job, bearing in mine 
the constraints of the medium he has to work in. With the exception 
of PoA, but IMO it was the director that really bolloxed up the movie.


Please forgive me for going off on a tangent that had nothing to do 
with the original topic!

Cat