[HPFGU-Movie] Re: More Chicago screening reviews

[Cabal]

I don't think the titles of HBP or DH really had much to do with the plot,
but more with the titles being fluid from one book to the next. "Harry
Potter and the History of Tom Riddle" would not have been the same just like
"Harry Potter and Winter Long Camping Trip" wouldn't have sounded right for
the last book.

 

My thing is this the plot of Harry / Malfoy and the two love triangles could
have been a 90 min movie. Really, I'm reading the book to my daughters right
now (just happened that way, we started last year with the first one) and
we're halfway and Malfoy is barely there. Mostly it's been Harry between
Hermione and Ron fighting.

 

What they leave out that harms the films (not in relation to the book) is
that all that Riddle story helps Harry figure out what might be Horcrux's,
it also makes Voldy come alive in a way we don't otherwise get and makes
him, IMO, more rich as a character and not just a symbol of evil like the
EYE in LOTR. My idea, as a writer, would have been to intercut moments form
the book flashbacks in-between other scenes and just slide in and out of
them once it's established what Harry and DD are doing. We could have DD
fill in the blanks by telling Harry some of the story while they were in the
flashbacks.

 

Also, from the trailer you see this HUDGE case filled with memories, you
expect them to explore more than two (since the one memory is just two
versions of the same).

 

Also, leaving out Fleur and Bill in the beginning is bad as well because DH
MUST open with the wedding scene, and likely it will, but it will feel out
of nowhere because they were not in this film.

 

OTOH I am very, very happy Ginny is given more screen time with Harry than
she had on the page.

 

md

 

From: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com [mailto:HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Carol
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 2:39 PM
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Subject: [HPFGU-Movie] Re: More Chicago screening reviews

 


I know that each person's interpretation is different, and I'm not
arguing with yours, but I don't see the flashbacks (Riddle's story) as
the main story at all. It's backstory, preparing Harry for the Horcrux
hunt in DH, but the main story (IMO) is that set up in "Spinner's
End": Draco's mission, Snape's Unbreakable Vow, and Harry's
determination to find out what they're up to. Ironically, he's forming
a bond, almost a friendship, with the HBP, the brilliant boy who wrote
all those helpful Potions improvements and invented all those clever
(and, in the case of Muffliatio, useful) spells at the same time that
he suspects the adult HBP (Snape) of helping Draco do some evil deed
for the Dark Lord.



 



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