David Yates to Direct Deatly Hallows!!!!

[Carol]

bboyminn:
> 
> The only complaint I have about Yates is he cuts to thin. In the
> last movie, overall, I thought it was well constructed. If 
> flowed very smoothly, but the detail was gone. It was edited
> down way too far. This one one of the longest books, and one
> of the shortest movies. While it did show Yate's great potential
> as a movie maker, it simply wasn't fleshed out enough.
> 
> It will be interesting to see what he does with HBP. That was
> a story that didn't really have much of a plot. It didn't have
> the great action adventure of the other books. A basic summary,
> is that Draco is up to something, and Harry has an interesting
> book; meantime, they are tracking Voldemort's history, and
> thinking about Horcruxes. 
> 
> This is a story that really needs to be fleshed out to make
> sense. 
> 
> Also, as I've already commented, I believe the movie makers
> are backing themselves into a corner. They have left so much
> important stuff out of the existing movies, I question 
> whether the last movie can make any sense at all of the 
> necessary plot details. They are either going to have to make
> up for a lot of lost time, or they are going to have to go 
> off in their own direction and forget about the books. And,
> I safely suspect the last option will not go over well with
> fans.
> 
Carol responds:
All that's really been left out that I can think of the the Marauders'
backstory and Harry's relationship with Snape. (They didn't make it
clear that Snape sent the Order to save Harry, which, IMO, was a big
blunder.)

However, given the casting, it's pretty clear that the entire Slughorn
and Lavender storylines will be presented, along with Snape/Draco. And
they're even bringing in Quidditch. I disagree that the plot of HBP
was thin, although characterization may be its main strength.

So far, it looks like they'll cut chapters one, three, five, maybe
nineteen and twenty-nine, and parts of the various Pensieve chapters,
but they'll have the cursed necklace, the poisoned mead, the
Unbreakable Vow, the cave with the Inferi, the tower, and, I really
hope, "The Flight of the Prince."

If they're casting all those minor characters (except poor Theo Nott)
from Blaise Zabini to Romilda Vane, we're going to have an HBP film
that's closer to the books than any we've seen so far.

Carol, hoping that they'll do a two-and-a-half hour film, which would
give time for all the crucial scenes 
> Steve/bboyminn
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