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[phamos]

So. I've realized something that was cut from the fifth movie that's going to backfire in the seventh.

They cut out Mundungus Fletcher! Honestly, my least favorite thing about the fifth film, looking back on it, is that they gave such short shrift to the actual Order of the Phoenix. You know, the thing the movie was named after? There was no scene where they cleaned out the cupboard, so no locket. They barely had Kreacher in it, but did the absolute bare minimum with him since J.K. Rowling said he would be important. And there was NO Mundungus Fletcher, which means no one who would have stolen the locket and given it to Umbridge, and no seventh Harry imposter to disapparate and get Mad-Eye killed.

I have this picture in my mind's eye of the seventh movie, having re-read the book last night, but I'm so sure much of what I loved will get cut. Because it's the little moments, the seemingly-insignificant bits of dialogue, that make the story and the characters so compelling. And can we PLEASE hurry up and make these movies before Maggie Smith dies? The woman is about eleventy-hundred years old and she's been slogging through a pretty thankless role for five movies now -- we've got to get her to the last one so she can kick some ass!

In other news, I have a t-shirt that's totally on its last legs. It's a Death t-shirt, circa "Time of Your Life", and it's way too big and basically crumbling. Not a flattering piece of clothing, but it's incredibly comfortable to just lounge around in, and I love the artwork on the front:



I've been thinking, though, that if I need to do another clothing purge before we move, I might have to chuck it. BUT NOT ANYMORE! Because today I went to the mailbox, and as I was bent over checking to make sure everything had been successfully deposited, I heard a quiet voice behind me say, "Nice Death shirt." It took me a second to realize the guy was talking to me, and as I stood up I said thank you, but he'd already walked on. And I was like, yes, it IS a nice Death shirt. And Death brings people together! (Like Moki, or Old Dirty Bastard.) So I'm keeping it, for now.

Comments

[miz-anneliese.livejournal.com]

Could you cut out the pattern on the front and sew it to a new shirt? I can absolutely understand not wanting to get rid of that!

[phamos818.livejournal.com]

Nah...the pattern itself is getting all crumbly -- it's a black shirt and the white parts (her face, the checkerboard) are that iron-on-y type stuff. So they're the parts that are actually falling apart. The shirt itself has held up remarkably well -- no holes -- although it's VERY faded.

[talamasca.livejournal.com]

Well, on the other hand, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" was a little bit of a misnomer. I mean, Rowling herself didn't focus on the Order as much as you'd have expected her to do in a book with that name. Though I agree that it would've been nice if the movie hadn't put them even more into the far background.

I imagine that they could either introduce Mundungus into movie 7 as a guy who's been in the order but we just haven't seen him, or find some way to write around him. I see not showing the locket in the cupboard as a little more problematic. Unless they decide to really streamline the movie and cut out the entire Ministry raid by having the trio just find the locket in Grimmaud Place...which would really, really suck ass, since it's in the Ministry that you really see what's at stake in this war.

At least those things that I thought would bite them due to being left out of movie 5--Neville's part in the prophecy, and the personal note to Petunia--ended up not being that important after all. I guess that showed that they knew a little about what they were doing. Though I still think there's lots left out that should be in these movies, even if they don't directly steer the plot. Characterization is important, too.

I'm currently rereading the book via downloaded audiobook.

Yeah, it'd suck if they can't get these movies done without having to suddenly replace another actor/actress playing an integral character. I mean, they've had such great casting with the movies, the only black mark being the guy that they got to replace Dumbledore when Richard Harris kicked the bucket. 8^/

[murderousclouds.livejournal.com]

Mad-Eye dies in big SFX chase scene on broomsticks. Hedgewig doesn't die, but is removed from the movie entirely.

Harry randomly stakes out the Ministry, spies locket and knows it is a Horcrux due to magical symbol of Voldemort on it or something like that.

[phamos818.livejournal.com]

Mad-Eye dies in big SFX chase scene on broomsticks.

Eyugh, that makes me think of the whole dragon-chasing scene in the GoF movie. Harry never KILLED the damn dragon in the book!