MOVIE: Running Time (was Re: Running time of movie final cut announced)

[cynthiaanncoe at home.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 25669

Luke wrote:

> And on a personal note, I refuse to make any judgment calls on the 
> movie's quality based on its running time.  I would hate to see the 
> studio impose some superficial time limit on it just because they 
> don't think kids have the attention span.  But I can also tell you 
> that as a general rule for movies, some scenes deserve to be 
> shortened.  In the case of HP they may not be cutting scenes so 
much 
> as tightening them up.  A longer or shorter running time does not 
> directly correlate with how accurate the adaptation is.
> 

Yes, but what scenes could you cut from PS/SS?  Maybe you could 
skip "Norbert the Norwegian RidgeBack", and maybe you could shorten 
up the "The Forbidden Forest."  But generally, I think PS/SS is 
pretty tight already, and there's not a lot there to cut (as opposed 
to GoF, which has lots of things that could be cut).  So I hope the 
filmmakers are willing to go a bit over 2 hours.  2:20 sounds about 
right to me.

Cindy