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

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., cynthiaanncoe at h... wrote:
> 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

Well, what I meant by tightening up scenes was not that the scenes as 
they appear in the book might need to be tightened before appearing in 
the movie but rather that the scenes as they were filmed might need it 
(I don't know if that made sense).  Such as a couple unnecessary lines 
of dialogue or pauses or excessively long close-ups here and there and 
that sort of thing.  Not necessarilly cutting content at all.  In 
other words perhaps the movie scene was already paced too slow, slower 
than the book equivalent.

Anyway, that's not my main point.  My main point is that I'm against 
artificial time considerations of any sort.  In 'My Perfect 
World'(tm), movies would never be cut for reasons of pure length, but 
for reasons of EFFECTIVENESS.  Forget the numbers entirely and go for 
what works best.

-Luke