Quotations Weblog

Last night, Mike and I went to see Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Condensing a 734-page book down to a two and half hour movie is a difficult task, especially when most of the audience has already read the book.

They did an excellent job on the movie. They were able to tell the whole story without cutting the essential elements of it all. I would have liked to see more of the torture that Rita Skeeter put Harry through with her stories in the Daily Prophet and I would have also enjoyed seeing her just desserts at the end, but Rita Skeeter was a minor character. They were able to bring about the most important elements of the book to the big screen and I’m so thankful we didn’t have to endure an hour-long segment on the Quidditch World Cup.

I read the book when it first came out and added the following quotations to our collection. Not one of them made it into the movie, however.

This quote is the closest one that made it into the movie. The movie made it better, however.

The quote from the book leaves it open, but the movie made it much more definitive.