[HPFGU-Movie] Re: SPOILER!!! HBP REVIEW.

[Child Of Midian]

From: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com [mailto:HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of eggplant107





> They left several things from the books
> that really should be needed for DH

Well of course they did, but have a little mercy. Put yourself in the place
of the screenwriter, you've got to condense about 18 hours (the time of the
audio book) into 2 and a half hours. Unless you the screenwriter can figure
out how to overcome the space time continuum you are going to have to omit
some absolutely wonderful stuff. That's just the way it is.
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Actually, I've adapted books to screenplays, nothing that's been sold to
this point, but I've done it. I know EXCACTLY what it entails.

The clues, the information on the horcruxes was and is more important than
making up new scenes. Also, as I pointed out before, they've overlooked a
huge audience that would love to see a LOTR situation where 45 - 60 minutes
of footage could be added to an extended edition Blu-Ray latter and would
make the studio hundreds of millions.

What I liked about the screenplays for the first 3 films is that they
streamlined the films in such a way that the left-out information was
missed, but as they moved to the last three films they seemed to take
highlights from the books and stitch it together rather than reimagining the
story in for the screen. 

As for 18 hrs to read the book aloud, I can read the book to myself in half
that time, and the book can take 20 pages to cover what takes 30 seconds of
screen time. I'm a writer and an English / literature teacher, words are my
life, it's what I do and what I understand better than anything else. That's
just the way it is.

 

md



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