[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Undeathly Hallows ?

[Cabal]

If they do two 2hr 30min films they won’t have to cut much if anything. I
mean, 4 ½ - 5 hrs is a lot of screen time.

 

The book is not as long as OOTP, and if it was printed in standard type and
margins for adult readers it would actually be about 100 pages shorter (HP
hardcover’s have about 250 words per page, most adult fiction has 300 – 350
per page – less white space)

 

The only real issue at 5 hrs is where to separate the head from the body.

 

I think the best option for two films (aside from just stopping a la “Lord
of the Rings”) is to devote the first half of the film to the Hallows and
the second film to Horcrux’s.

 

You’d have to change the timeline to do that, but I think having all the key
scenes is more important than the order they happen, and anything they can
do to make the Camping Trip more exiting (like cutting most of it) will be
welcome to most fans, I think.

 

md

 

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Subject: [HPFGU-Movie] Re: Undeathly Hallows ?

 

--- "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> 
> bboyminn: 
> > Still, were to cut? I think possible Ron rescuing Harry
> > and getting the sword, ...
> 
> Carol:
> Well, true, but that scene involves the resolution of *Ron's*
> self-doubts, not Harry's. The mystery of the Hallows remains
> unresolved until the visit to the Lovegoods,...
> 





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