Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final part of the literary saga signed by J.K. Six months later, in July 2011.
This unprecedented cut, which certainly allowed fans to enjoy the magical saga a little longer, also caused difficulties for David Yates, the director of the final installments, and his editor-in-chief Mark Day.
Indeed, as the filmmaker recently revealed on the microphone ColliderHe apparently planned to keep the show’s main and final battle at Hogwarts for the eighth and final film, but still tried to provide a satisfying conclusion to the penultimate installment so it wouldn’t end up as a mere episode. series.
“The big challenge with this movie was that it didn’t have a third act. It lost momentum in the middle, and Mark and I talked to each other a lot trying to find a solution. (…)“David Yates said.
“With these two movies, Part 1 and Part 2, the idea was to make the first one a road movie about taking the characters out of school, putting them in danger outside of that safe place, and seeing how they develop. How was their relationship tested? But then we went straight to the climax of the last movie and the fireworks. So we improvised a kind of cut in the first part to try to give the impression of a build-up at the end, when in reality it’s a bit of a show. .”
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remind you Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 It ended after Harry, Ron and Hermione’s visit to Xenophilius Lovegood and their capture by Voldemort’s henchmen. Thanks to Dobby, the trio managed to escape, but the house elf was fatally stabbed with a dagger. So the film ended with her sad disappearance, while Voldemort ended up putting his hand on the Elder Wand at Dumbledore’s grave.
A sequence that had already prepared the audience for the spectacular outcome and which ended this interlude episode quite effectively. A final opus that fans clearly didn’t complain about, on the contrary, as David Yeats also explained:
“People tell me, ‘My favorite movie is Deathly Hallows Part 1. It was amazing.’ It was like a European road movie.’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, but we did an incredible job editing it.’
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