Fictional plot holes.

[Carol]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "zanooda2" <zanooda2 at ...> wrote:
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> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67@> wrote:
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> > > Eggplant wrote:
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> > > It was in a magazine interview with David Yates
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> > Carol, hoping that the article was wrong
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> zanooda:
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> I've read an interview with Yates some time ago where he mentioned a possible breaking point, but I don't think it's the same interview that Eggplant saw, because there was no any specifics there (like the chains :-)). He only said that they were filming HRH's capture by the Snatchers, and that the breaking point will be very soon after this scene. From this I gathered that it will be somewhere around Malfoy Manor. Yates then said that it's only for now, and the final decision will be made during editing. Here is the link:
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> http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2009/6/19/david-yates-snatcher-scene-just-filmed-for-deathly-hallows-talks-split-of-films
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Carol responds:

Yes, I read the same interview that you linked to, which is why I was trying to think of points that might qualify as "cliffhangers." (the death and burial of Dobby certainly qualifies as a "death or bereavement," as mentioned below:

"Things can change when you edit, of course, but the idea now is that it will be not long after the sequence that we are filming here today. That's what we're experimenting with. We've had three or four different ideas about where to cut off the seventh film. Traditionally, the movies have ended with a death or a bereavement, some sort of passage or arrival. This time we think we will end with more a cliffhanger. Again, though, that's the thought as of this moment."

At any rate, it's "not long after" (not during) the sequence with the Snatchers, so it could be at any point during the Malfoy Manor scene, but most likely the death and burial of Dobby. Imagine a stop-action scene with the knife flying toward Dobby. That would be too upsetting for young viewers, I think. They could leave Harry wondering whether to go after the Elder Wand or let Voldemort take it and concentrate on the Horcruxes, which is really the crux of the book, but it might be hard to make that sufficiently dramatic. Maybe we'll get Dobby's funeral in place of Dumbledore's.

Anyway, I still think that ending it just after the Snatchers or at any point in Malfoy Manor would leave too much to squeeze into the last film and too little action in the first (other than the MoM, Bathilda!Nagini, and the destruction of the locket Horcrux. Adding the Snatchers and Malfoy Manor gives it an exciting climax. (Logically, I suppose the Gringotts break-in can go in the second film because it's the same day as the Battle of Hogwarts--one very action-packed twenty-four hours even if some of the action is off-page.)

Carol, hoping that the filmmakers won't add lengthy scenes at the expense of the book as they've clearly done in HBP