MOVIE: TIME Magazine Nov 5. 2001 Issue

[Kewpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 28562

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> > M> 1. No Peeves.
> > M> 2. We don't see Ron's Mirror of Erised image.
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> > 3. I think the fact the we're only going to get the first half of the
> > Norbert saga is significant: Will they leave it hanging how thet 
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> > rid of him?  What does this foreshadow about the overall 
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> > of the film's continuity?  Will we be able to *tell* that the movie
> > was trimmed from four hours down to 2-1/2??
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> Columbus says it wasn't trimmed from 4, and the TIME mag 
> says the rest of the norbert scene wasn't even shot. I had a 
> strong suspicion this would be what they cut - it's a slihtly 
clunky 
> storyline, there seems a host of other ways around it, and 
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> you can draw it out and use all other kinds of plot devices in a 
> book, I'm sure Kloves found some other ways to shorten the 
> 'getting the trio to be in the forest for the unicorn thing' and 'lose 
> points for gryffindor' storyline. Remember the filch photo - it's 
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> trio + neville, which means ron got detention, too.
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actually, I think they cut Neville's part in the Forbidden Forest, 
because there's only the Trio + Draco in all the Forbidden forest 
scene pix I've seen so far (including that one with Filch, there's 
no nevile at all).

jo