Okay, so I think I’ve found a brilliant solution to what many deem one of the more crushing aspects of The Goblet of Fire;

The Yule Ball.

Now, this is the part in the movie where the plot completely stops at a hault for a whooping 23 minutes without any movement to the story (besides beautiful character development). Then the film proceeds with The Second Task and then seven minutes later The Third Task, followed by the Third Act.

I always hated how The Third Task came so quickly after The Second Task, not to mention how the film grows very stale in the middle-point with The Yule Ball. Like, exceptionally still.

So, what’s the solution?

Well, if the The Second Task was to be introduced after the introduction of McGonagall’s Dance lessons but also right before Winter, then not only will the timing of events be proper to the weather (students wearing scarfs etc. but no snow) but there is also momentum to the story with The Yule Ball events happening simountanously to The Second Task events (except for Harry asking Cho out, then the twins, and then the actual Yule Ball event which will all happen after The Second Task).

So now both the storylines are complementing one another, without the story stopping for the other. Win-Win?

Then we also get increased time between The Second Task and The Third Task, as The Yule Ball event, Dumbledore’s office and the Pensieve, Barty Crouch murder, and Snape’s Potion Chamber all eat up more than 20 minutes of interesting story development.

Having done a rough cut with this idea I am blown out the park that the film wasn’t structured this way, despite not following the book faithfully in the unfolding of the events.

Book lovers will maybe not love it, but then again - my focus is on improving the film, not the book. Hehe. And also this is not a change that removes anything like beautiful character moments. It just re-arranges when they happen.

What do you think?