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TehRin Ayaya Snuffleupagus the III ([info]tehrin) wrote in [info]fandom_lounge,
@ 2008-03-12 16:54:00
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Deathly Hallows to be Split into Two Movies, directed by David Yates
Link to the article at Leaky.

Like butter? Discuss.

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[info]drakyndra
2008-03-13 12:11 am UTC (link)
See, I'm just baffled because it'd be so easy to cut DH down to movie length. Reduce the camping scenes to montages, you're there!

I don't get it.

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[info]tunxeh
2008-03-13 12:36 am UTC (link)
What's to get? Two movies, twice as much money.

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2008-03-13 01:47 am UTC (link)
the fecking ENDLESS camping scenes...

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[info]pfeffermuse
2008-03-13 03:01 am UTC (link)
Ghod, tell me about it. As I read DH, all I could think was why didn't the threesome just hide themselves in the TARDIS ever expanding beaded bag and owl mail themselves from place to place.

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[info]rosehiptea
2008-03-13 02:11 am UTC (link)
Yeah, if they were willing to cut down Goblet of Fire, why not this one? I don't have serious complaints about its length as a book but... there's still plenty you could cut out.

I know it was a different director but still, I don't get it.

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[info]julesnoctambule
2008-03-13 02:33 am UTC (link)
Seriously. At least 'Goblet' had enough plot to warrant a longer film.

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[info]eleutheria
2008-03-13 04:04 am UTC (link)
^^This.

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[info]julesnoctambule
2008-03-13 02:32 am UTC (link)
Reduce the camping scenes and it could be a one-hour television special.

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[info]vzg
2008-03-13 06:37 am UTC (link)
...The camping scenes were actually my favorite parts. XD Do I fail?

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[info]cowgirled
2008-03-14 08:25 am UTC (link)
Do I fail?

No, not at all. To be honest I don't get all the gripes about the camping stuff. It's not like stuff didn't happen during that time. I loved it as well. Great character building. Plus, even reducing the camping scenes there's no way they could smush it all in without a bunch of cuts.

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[info]cleolinda
2008-03-13 02:05 am UTC (link)
I'm waiting for the Chris Columbus fans to start wailing.

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[info]sisterelwood
2008-03-13 02:45 am UTC (link)
Personally, I like the idea- I only wish they had done something similar with the previous movies.

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[info]da_angel729
2008-03-13 03:54 am UTC (link)
I agree. GoF and OotP would have been greatly improved as two-part movies.

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[info]darth_wanker
2008-03-13 04:17 am UTC (link)
See, I'm just going to wait for five or so years to pass from the release of the last movie, then I'm going to batten down the hatches and start praying for a TV miniseries. A big one. That way they can go into ridiculous fan-obsessed detail without having to cut everything down to movie-length. Just make an epic miniseries instead.

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[info]tehrin
2008-03-13 04:48 am UTC (link)
Personally, I'd love to see an animated cartoon series of HP done right. That would make me so happy. They don't really make miniseries for children. However, it probably would have better duration as a miniseries. Cartoons usually run the risk of getting canceled.

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[info]drakyndra
2008-03-13 09:32 am UTC (link)
Yes, that!

I'd love a whole long animated HP series, I think it'd work fabulously.

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[info]bigi
2008-03-13 10:49 am UTC (link)
Yes. (Especially if they somehow got Makani to do the character designs. Which probably won't happen but I can dream.)

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[info]belafarinrod
2008-03-13 04:43 pm UTC (link)
Much for the sheer crackfactor, I also want an anime. If the doujinshi market is any indicator, it would contain a long-haired bisihe Voldemort and loads of smiling Weasleys.

And it would be beautiful, beautiful crack =D

But why settle for one thing? HP is big enough that they should be willing to try and milk it for cash for several years to come!

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[info]tehrin
2008-03-13 05:48 pm UTC (link)
Voldie must be hot Ralph Fiennes bald and terrifying! I do not accept this bishie!

But yes to crack. Crack is always good. Who knows, we might even get Peeves!

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[info]belafarinrod
2008-03-13 05:53 pm UTC (link)
He'd totally be a half-bunny or something.

At least I honestly think they'd handle the thing between Harry and Ginny in a clearer way. (that is, no chestmonster, more like ages upon ages of shy blushes and almost-not-quite love confessions)

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[info]melisus
2008-03-13 07:10 pm UTC (link)
I would LOVE an animated series. I think it'd be a lot easier to capture the right look or essence of a character with a cartoon than being limited by actual people.

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[info]chibikaijuu
2008-03-14 01:06 am UTC (link)
What I really want it an animated series (GOOD animation, damn it) of Garth Nix's Key to the Kingdom series. (Well, what I really, really want is a series of live-action movies, because they would be AWESOME, but there will be seven books with a twelve-year-old protagonist (and several non-aging child side characters), with the action only actually taking place over a couple of weeks. That could be mildly problematic, though a live-action miniseries might work.)

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[info]southerngaelic
2008-03-13 07:55 am UTC (link)
That could actually work better. I've got a DVD of "The 10th Kingdom," and when I watch it I'm happy they didn't try and cram six hours of Scott Cohen numminess a great story into a two hour movie because it would have failed really hard.

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dracothelizard
2008-03-13 01:55 pm UTC (link)
Mmmmm, Scott Cohen.

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[info]southerngaelic
2008-03-13 02:38 pm UTC (link)
Is it wrong that I got jealous of Virginia A LOT during the series? Especially in the Kissing Town part?

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dracothelizard
2008-03-13 03:06 pm UTC (link)
If that's wrong, I don't want to be right.

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[info]drakyndra
2008-03-13 09:33 am UTC (link)
I've been saying that for years.

Then again, I've also been saying that they should have waited until the last book came out so they would know which stuff could be easily cut.

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[info]mary_mac
2008-03-13 10:33 am UTC (link)
Yeah, they're going to have to turn somersaults to make the last two make sense due to stupidity in the first five. My sympathy is limited, mind you.

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[info]tofuknight
2008-03-15 07:41 pm UTC (link)
No sympathy here. The scriptwriters were so idiotic, the only thing that could make up for it in the last two (three now!) is if the movies actually present Harry/Hermione. *blissfully dreams of the wank*

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[info]velvet_mace
2008-03-13 06:18 am UTC (link)
Two movies is the only way they can reproduce the tedious and plodding atmosphere JKR so masterfully captured, while simultaneously giving the audience the true to book niggly feeling that somewhere else something really interesting is going on, and if we'd only stop watching Harry, we could probably get in on it.

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2008-03-13 06:58 am UTC (link)
*smirks and applauds*

And that something else probably involves Neville being AWESOME.

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[info]vzg
2008-03-13 06:40 am UTC (link)
I just know that, even after half or more of the fans I used to argue with cried over and over for two movies per book, they'll probably end up complaining in one way or another about this. "Why do I have to wait? THEY SHOULD BE SHOWN BACK-TO-BACK ALL THE TIME EVERYWHERE and never deviate in even a single word from the books and they should look exactly like how I picture them..."

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[info]jira
2008-03-13 07:10 pm UTC (link)
Oh god I want that icon. Can I gank it?

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[info]vzg
2008-03-13 10:02 pm UTC (link)
Oh absolutely yes. :D

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[info]gun
2008-03-13 10:51 am UTC (link)
I AM SO GLAD THAT THEY ARE MAKING TWO MOVIES. NOW THEWLOL WON'T BECOME THE NEW CASPER VAN DIEN!!!!!

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[info]plazmah
2008-03-13 07:45 pm UTC (link)
Two movies = twice as much wank.

I SEE NO DOWNSIDE!

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[info]tofuknight
2008-03-15 07:43 pm UTC (link)
EXACTLY!!! CLEARLY THIS IS WB'S GIFT TO FANDOM_WANK IN RETURN FOR ALL THE USEFUL INFORMATION ON THE LEXICON CASE! YAY!!

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[info]andi_chan
2008-03-13 08:19 pm UTC (link)
Gah, that just means they're DEFINITELY going to put the epilogue in to fill up the time.

Think they'll try and make the actors look older, or just get older actors who can pass for the Trio and Co.?

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[info]julesnoctambule
2008-03-14 02:51 am UTC (link)
Depending on how well they stick to schedule, age makeup might not be required.

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[info]andi_chan
2008-03-14 04:50 am UTC (link)
It says 2010 and 2011, but still, HP7 takes place with them between 17-18 or 19, while the epilogue has them at least 10 years past that, right? (You can tell I haven't had much motivation to read it again.) They'd need to at least look like they're in their 30s, right?

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[info]julesnoctambule
2008-03-14 08:26 pm UTC (link)
It was a joke about the films possibly taking longer than expected.

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[info]andi_chan
2008-03-14 08:39 pm UTC (link)
^^; Ah... I've been told I have no sense of humor, which explains why I didn't see the joke. :P

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[info]huehau
2008-03-14 03:18 am UTC (link)
There's no way they're not going to end the series with a closing shot of the trio as portrayed by Radcliffe, Grint, and Watson. I think they'd, at most, skip ahead five to six years and show a big party at the Burrow or something.

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[info]chibikaijuu
2008-03-14 01:10 am UTC (link)
AUGH. Of all the books, they pick the one with the most repetitive boring crap and inessential details to not cut down?

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[info]cowgirled
2008-03-14 08:28 am UTC (link)
Lol at fandom. They've been whining for years and years about how the movies cut too much, and now when they finally get a chance to have a book to movie adaptation with far more minimal cuts, they just whine. HP fandom=never happy.

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[info]julesnoctambule
2008-03-14 08:28 pm UTC (link)
I think if it were put up to a vote, this book would be on the top of the 'Plenty of useless crap to cut' list for many fans, unlike previous books. I know I personally was bored out of my skull for most of it.

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[info]cowgirled
2008-03-14 08:36 pm UTC (link)
Sorry you feel that way. I disagree. For me that would be OotP and GoF. They both had loads of subplots and bits that had very little play in the final volumes. GoF especially. I've always felt is the weakest of the latter books...

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[info]julesnoctambule
2008-03-14 08:37 pm UTC (link)
As to the comment you deleted:

'Sorry you feel that way. I disagree. For me that would be OotP and GoF.'

there's no need to feel bad for me because my opinion is not the same as yours.

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[info]cowgirled
2008-03-14 08:39 pm UTC (link)
Oh I deleted it because I just reposted it and added something on. Sorry for the confusion. :(

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