I dont know where they get the idea of "darker".... the later books have more serious
parts as the kids grow older. People get really hurt, people die. English childrens
books are not as "fluffy". The lemony snicket (sp?) series is supposed to show kids
with difficulty (which I will read if I can get em back from my step sister!).
Rowling is a very VERY tight writer. on her website she even talks about characters
she has dumped cause while interesting they didnt forward the story properly. so
stripping stuff out of her books for the movies is very hard indeed.
they have dumped this director for one more like chris columbus from the first two,
but then I hear they are doing GoF in a single movie, not two which is going to be
very hard indeed seeing how everything is so tight already and the book is 600? pages
long.
Rowling balances the good with the bad. this last movie stripped out all the good
and focused on the bad. Like the quiddich game where he falls when the dementors get
in (they left this in). But after he learns the patronus charm the next quiddich game
Malfoy et all show up looking like dementors but HP zaps em good and wins the game to
great celebration (they left this out).

some of these directors are morons. I dont think many of them had a nice childhood so
they are going to ruin every one elses .... it isnt like we dont have enough of
horror in reality without trying to poison and destroy the fantasy world too.
Ingrid

"dkat" wrote:
Wow, really sorry to hear that. I had read that they had stripped the movie
of all but the bones of the book (which explains how the longer book could
be a shorter movie).... The books however do get darker as they go
along.... still this should not take away from the magic....


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