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Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video

A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.

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Mr. Broom - Sep 15, 2005 5:00:27 pm PDT #7367 of 10002

"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor

Why add something new, when there is already so much that will have to be excised to make the story fit the confines of a Hollywood movie?

One reason I could think of would be to make it smoother. Take a large book and made large and judicious cuts and what you get is a script with lots of noticeable stitchmarks. All of my favorite film adaptations have included a generous (though not too generous) dose of original material to blend it all together. After all, PoA was a book as long as first two put together and made into a movie one-third of the length of the first two put together, and it's generally agreed that it was the best. It also had a few original bits to make the movie its own being. That's another thing that separated it from the read-from-the-page feel of Chris Columbus's films.

sj - Sep 15, 2005 5:08:06 pm PDT #7368 of 10002

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I love those lines too, Teppy. Thanks again for letting us know the movie was on. I was feeling miserable tonight, and now I am much better.

Steph L. - Sep 15, 2005 5:11:12 pm PDT #7369 of 10002

I look more rad than Lutheranism

Thanks again for letting us know the movie was on. I was feeling miserable tonight, and now I am much better.

Isn't it funny how HUGE the computer is? I kept looking over at my laptop and giggling.

sj - Sep 15, 2005 5:15:07 pm PDT #7370 of 10002

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Isn't it funny how HUGE the computer is?

I know! I keep thinking of Emmy as an early form a google. Especially when they get tons of information that isn't what they need. Imagine if everything had to print out everytime you did a google search?

erikaj - Sep 15, 2005 5:24:07 pm PDT #7371 of 10002

Always Anti-fascist!

The rainforest would be dead.

Aims - Sep 15, 2005 7:13:29 pm PDT #7372 of 10002

Shit's all sorts of different now.

t stamp

WHAT NEW TRAILER?? The one that was with the french subtitles? I saw no You Know Who!

Volans - Sep 15, 2005 7:50:17 pm PDT #7373 of 10002

move out and draw fire

Vonnie K "Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video" Sep 15, 2005 6:36:55 am PDT

Vonnie linked to it upthread, Aims.

Aims - Sep 15, 2005 7:51:41 pm PDT #7374 of 10002

Shit's all sorts of different now.

t sheepish

I missed it. Thank you.

Fred Pete - Sep 16, 2005 3:45:32 am PDT #7375 of 10002

Ann, that's a ferret.

One reason I could think of would be to make it smoother. Take a large book and made large and judicious cuts and what you get is a script with lots of noticeable stitchmarks.

Classic example -- Greta Garbo, Love. Imagine an 80-minute version of Anna Karenina. And that 80 minutes includes both endings (yes, the studio made an alternate happy ending for U.S. audiences).

Not a bad movie on its own, but strictly limited to the Anna-Vronsky story.

Calli - Sep 16, 2005 4:45:38 am PDT #7376 of 10002

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Salon has a review of The Corpse Bride. I expect there's a spoiler or two lurking in it: [link]

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