Shell Cottage scenes

[Carol]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...> wrote:
>
> "Carol" <justcarol67@> wrote:
> 
> > Griphook will appear in both films 
> > ("The Goblins' Revenge" and "Malfoy Manor" 
> > through "Shell Cottage" in DH1 and 
> > "Gringotts" in DH2. At least, that's where
> > I'd divide the films. 
> 
> Then except for the epilogue the entire DH2 film would
> concern events that happened over the course of 24 hours,
> they could almost do it in real time as a certain TV show
> does who's name escapes me. That might be a little too 
> much wall to wall action, a movie needs some breathing space.
> 
> I'd divide the films when Ron saves Harry's life,
> and it's almost exactly the halfway point in the book.
> 
>  Eggplant
>
Carol responds:
I think that either approach would work, but I don't think they'll want to crowd almost all the action, including the kidnapping by the Snatchers and "Malfoy Manor" into the second film. It would be more unified, IMO only, if it began with preparing to rob Gringotts and went through that whole day (though, of course, real time would require about twenty-four hours).

The first half of the book includes a lot of waiting around and thinking or reading, which, of course, won't work for a book. And while I agree that Ron's saving Harry and destroying the Horcrux is a high point that would work as a place to end the film, I suspect that they'll want the end of part one to focus on Harry rather than Ron. My guess is that they'll end it after Dobby's burial or possibly a little later, with Harry's decision to go with Horcruxes rather than Hallows. The only question in my mind is whether the events at Shell Cottage, other than the burial, will be in the first or the second film.

I could be completely wrong, of course, but I don't think we can assume that the films will break at the halfway mark in the book. We do have Yates's comment in an interview as a clue:

"I'd wanted Order of the Phoenix to be an intense journey with a troubled young kid, more social-realist than the other films. But The Half-Blood Prince is more heightened, and if Deathly Hallows Part I is quite verite and goes back to that social-realist style, Part II should be epic and operatic."

http://www.snitchseeker.com/harry-potter-news/david-yates-steve-kloves-talk-half-blood-prince-deathly-hallows-64041/

or

http://tinyurl.com/c9sgrb

So, if I read the comment correctly, DH 1 is about conflicted kids dealing with real-life problems (jealousy, boredom, frustration, figuring out Dumbledore and the riddles of the artifacts they inherited from him) with a few comic or dramatic interludes, including the DEs in the cafe and Bathilda!Nagini and Voldemort at Godric's Hollow and the visit to Xenophilius Lovegood, while DH2 focuses on the "epic and operatic" final confrontation with Voldemort and the resolution of the Snape subplot.

We'll see, of course. But that's how I'd do it if I were Yates or Kloves.

Carol, whose "social-realist" day begins with a dentist appointment!