One small problem with the Film - HBP

[bboyminn]

---  "Geoff" <gbannister10 at ...> wrote:
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> ---  "bboyminn" <bboyminn@> wrote:
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> > As with all the films, there are parts I would have done 
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> Geoff:
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> And, returning to HBP, why did Luna find Harry in the train? What 
> was wrong with Tonks, as in the book?
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bboyminn:

I don't have a problem with this. The only reason to have Tonks
find Harry in the books was we, through Harry, could see that
her Patronus had changed to something vaguely dog-like. That
sets up the relationship between her and Tonk later. But
since those later scenes were deleted, there was nothing special
about having Tonks find Harry. Anyone could have found him, just
so he was found. 

So, the underlying question is, does Tonks finding Harry have
anything to do with the central plot, and I don't think it
does. 

Still, in the books Tonks finding Harry does setup some
secondary plot aspects that come up later in the story. But
the whole Tonk/Remus storyline seems to have been all but
virtually eliminated. 

I think David Yates has great potential as a director, and
with in a certain context, he has done a good job on the films
he directed. But he tends to cut the story too shallow. He 
leaves out substance that a vast majority of fans would think
important. 

Still, he's all we've got, and he will do what he will do. 
But I can't help wondering, even with two movies, just how
thin he will cut the second book.

I look at a book as a mountain range. Making a movie about
a book is about how much of the mountain tops you are going 
to use. How deeply you are going to cut into the mountains.
Minor plots are mountain peaks that are so low, the don't 
make the cut at all. Other peaks are higher, and they
deserve to standout more than others.

In my opinion, good a director as he is, Yates is cutting 
far to shallow into those story-mountain-peaks. Plus he is
building mountains, that either don't need to exist, or that
complicate things rather than simplifying them. 

Just a few thoughts.

Steve/bboyminn