MOVIE: The Turban & Chairs

[cynthiaanncoe at home.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 27332

Brandon wrote:

> Here's some more evidence of benches in the Great Hall taken from 
GoF
> Chapter 37.
> They did it, all of them; the benches scraped as everyone in the 
Hall stood,
> and raised their goblets, and echoed, in one load, low, rumbling 
voice,
> "Cedric Diggory."

So, then.  Is the score Benches -- 2; Chairs -- 3?  :)
As a member of the "Bench" team, I'll have to do some more nit-
picking to see if we can overtake the "Chairs" group.

Miltz wrote:

I was skimming through that Harry Potter book with stills from the 
> movie. In it is a still of Hagrid and Harry, who's pushing the 
> trolley loaded with suitcases and Hedwig's cage. It looks like 
> they're at the train station. I figure the movie will clarify the 
> scene. But if they do have Hagrid dropping Harry off at King's 
Cross, 
> I will be moderately miffed.
> 

And Luke wrote:

I do not advocate changing things for no good reason, but they may 
> have had specific motivations to make Hagrid's hut out of stone, 
for 
> example.  And they had logistical filming considerations to take 
into 
> account with Dan Radcliffe's haircut and what would be the best 
> balance of easy to work with on set and accurate to the JKR 
vision.  

I would like to propose the formation of a new support group for 
listies who are willing to accept changes to PS/SS if they make the 
movie tighter and don't do harm to the plot and integrity of the 
series.  For instance, in the book, Hagrid drops Harry off back at 
Privet drive for a one-month stay, and Harry basically wrings his 
hands and reads his school books until it is time to board the 
train.  Harry also has the angst of not knowing how to get on the 
train and the accompanying self-doubt.  I would think it would be 
quite difficult to convey all of this in a movie and not worth the 
effort, so omitting it for the sake of brevity seems like a good call 
to me.  

Membership in the new group, called S.A.D. (Society of Apologists for 
the Director) is one sickle, payable upon viewing the entire film and 
concluding that the director has done a good job on the movie under 
the circumstances and should not be fed to a skrewt.

Cindy (wondering if the Great Hall will contain tall bar stools for 
OoP)