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Why they decided to do that. It makes no sense to have a single-sex school if its the only (or even the premiere) wizarding school in the country.
And I want there to be a justification if they're going to change something from the books. There are valid reasons to change some things (leaving out the whole Fleur's part Veela thing, for example), but I fail to see the reason for that.
Single sex schools are so common in the UK, though. I'm sure they didn't give it a second thought.
They weren't single sex in the books? I can never remember this stuff.
They weren't single-sex in the book, no.
I think they were changed in the movie for the visual appeal, nsm for the logic.
And for contrast. Highlights the differences between the two schools in a very movie-friendly way, and without harming the story, which is a nice bonus.
I was a little squicked about the actress being IRL so much older than Radcliffe, but then when I thought about it, IRL she wasn't even in the room so I got over it. In movie land she's his age (albeit dead for a while).
Vampire news:
You haven't heard of the vampire film Moonshine yet, but you will. The film premieres at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, which starts Thursday in Park City, Utah, and it has a back story to make every aspiring filmmaker green with envy.
Roger Ingraham, the film's director, dropped out of high school, wrote a script and, at age 19, shot Moonshine using several dozen volunteer actors and crew. Total price: $9,200, including the cost of a Panasonic camera, a PowerBook G4 and website hosting.
According to an employee of the UltraStar cinema chain by way of Shacknews.com, a computer faux pas caused about 5,500 extra copies of the BloodRayne film to be created and distributed to theaters that didn’t even want to show it.
They weren't single-sex in the book, no.
I thought they were. I mean, I trust you (or I'm too lazy to look it up--take your pick!), but I remember having that impression of the schools long before seeing the movie, so it seems like a not-entirely-unsupported change, to me.
I don't know why the bathtub scene didn't squick me, but I think Trudy's point (they didn't film the scene together) probably had something to do with it.
According to an employee of the UltraStar cinema chain by way of Shacknews.com, a computer faux pas caused about 5,500 extra copies of the BloodRayne film to be created and distributed to theaters that didn’t even want to show it.
Huh. Odd.
I read something by the creators, saying that the movie's box office was so poor because so many theaters that ordered it didn't show it. He implied it was the theaters' fault.
I read something by the creators, saying that the movie's box office was so poor because so many theaters that ordered it didn't show it. He implied it was the theaters' fault.
And here I thought it was because everybody other than the studio already knows that Uwe Boll movies are heinous.
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