Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: 190 pages.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: 251 pages
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: 320 pages
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: 636 pages
If you’re adapting serial source material into the movie format and you’re suddenly faced with the problem of the next installment having twice the amount of content of the previous one, you’ll be forced to ask yourself whether it might not be smarter to split it up into two films, keeping the proportions intact. This was a fact that had to be strongly considered by WarnerBros., the financial backers of the Harry Potter films’ production. It was Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’s director Alfonso Cuaron who strongly suggested to the fourth film’s director, Mike Newell, to fit the 636 pages long (original UK Bloomsbury edition) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire into one single movie. Mike Newell agreed with his predecessor when he found the book’s essence, it’s red line he could hold onto and focus on within his motion picture: the book is a classic thriller. This was the notion on which writer Steve Kloves started adapting J.K. Rowling’s book into a screenplay - set up the antagonists and their shrouded plan in the beginning, then show how the main characters get more and more entangled in it. Any side plot that is only secondary to this process is prone to be left out of the script.
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I am a little leary of the situation. The truth will come out when, and if the US economy, and the dollar begins to strengthen. If prices remain high, you’ll know someone is lying. Either OPEC doesn’t have the supply they claim they have, or Analysts are incorrect when they say demand has decreased. Personally, I don’t buy the claim that demand has decreased. Population is ever increasing, so, the the demand should always be increasing. 