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01-29-2005, 09:55 AM
| | |  PoA Potter Producers Video Interviews
New video interviews with PoA producers, David Heyman and Chris Columbus, have emerged. Previously, these could only be seen on a DVD given away free with an Australian newspaper.
The Chris Columbus video can be found at this page, the David Heyman one can be found here. Please download them from those pages.
Transcripts for both can be read here. Chris Columbus - Producer: Quote:
I think it's interesting to see Harry dealing with that sense of rebellion. He's not going to take it anymore, he is not going to put up with the rules Uncle Vernon has sort of set in stone in the house. And what I loved, there was a line that was cut from the script that I loved, when Harry said to Uncle Vernon, "I'm tired of living by other people's rules." And I thought that was the heart of the film, I thought that, that's exactly what it means to be a teenager. You know, it's like those great rock 'n' role songs from the sixties - "it's my life, you can't tell me what to do."
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When he (Harry) walks out of the Dursley house at the beginning of the movie, that's pretty powerful. The fact that he's taken a stand and he's walking away from this nonsense.
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I think one of the most moving and emotional sequences is Harry riding Buckbeak through the grounds of Hogwarts. I just think that's a lyrical, poetic moment that just is, is very moving and I think Alfonso did a wonderful job.
David Heyman - Producer: Quote:
One of the themes, or one of the ideas that Alfonso was keen to explore in the film and which he discussed with me at the outset was this notion that when you become a teenager, or as you grow up, the demons are no longer just the monsters in the closet, the basilisk, the giant spiders and the likes, but actually the demons begin to come from within and a lot of the darkness comes from within. That was something he was keen to explore, so that infuses some of the story. Also, the books grow up, the films grow up, just as the kids grow up, and I think you deal with slightly more adolescent issues in this film than you have in the previous two.
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01-29-2005, 10:09 AM
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Is the Chris Columbus guy the same as the director of the first two films, or another person?
Yep, they made good points about the film.
Thanks for the news, Emma! :sorcerer:
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01-29-2005, 10:13 AM
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Yes, he is. He stepped down from directing the third and decided to produce it instead.
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01-29-2005, 10:14 AM
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I got that DVD, but i got it free from the newspaper. Quote:
I think one of the most moving and emotional sequences is Harry riding Buckbeak through the grounds of Hogwarts. I just think that's a lyrical, poetic moment that just is, is very moving and I think Alfonso did a wonderful job.
Isnt it ironic how he thinks it was poetic and moving, while some fans thought it was really cheesy?
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01-29-2005, 10:17 AM
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I thought the same as Chris. I think the people who think it's cheesey are too concerned with making comparisons between HP and other films (Titanic) to even attempt to enjoy it. It was moving, brought me to tears.
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01-29-2005, 10:20 AM
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I thought the same as Chris. I think the people who think it's cheesey are too concerned with making comparisons between HP and other films (Titanic) to even attempt to enjoy it. It was moving, brought me to tears.
It didnt really bring me to tears, but it did make me feel happy, more like a shiver up the spine than tears. And the other scene where harry was crying, people like to make fun of that one all the time. People on this site thought that the scene was cheesy too, okay the tears were abit fake, but it was still some good acting.
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01-29-2005, 10:22 AM
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I thought that scene was very iffy. I wonder why it wasn't cut from the film, but then we needed to see his reaction to the 'news'. It should've been re-shot though. If you can't do tears right, don't do them. It could've been just as effective without them.
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01-29-2005, 10:40 AM
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I thought that scene was very iffy. I wonder why it wasn't cut from the film, but then we needed to see hiw reaction to the 'news'. It should've been re-shot though. If you can't do tears right, don't do them. It could've been just as effective without them.
I thought the tears were needed. It showed that behind the 'hero' there is still a boy, if they wasnt any tears, then it kind of show you that Harry is still the hero, and he has no faults, always brave but never showing his emotions, like modern day man lol. so the scene kind of opened up a new side to the hero.
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01-29-2005, 10:41 AM
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The tears might've been needed, but they weren't even there properly, so...lol that point wasn't even put across
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01-29-2005, 10:48 AM
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The tears might've been needed, but they weren't even there properly, so...lol that point wasn't even put across
lol. When i first saw the movie, and wasnt a member of SS, I thought the tears were well done. But when i heard people saying his tears werent very realistic, then i started to doubt the acting, after watching the movie 2 more times, lol, i kinda saw what they meant. But the first time i saw it, i saw the tears as genuine, so the point got to me, even though now the tears seem abit fake.
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01-29-2005, 05:13 PM
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wow... u guys both have amazing points.... and i did think that in PoA his tears were fake but also it was a needed scene.... they should have maybe rehearsed it or seen how it looked first? i dunno. The Buckbeak scene i thought was a really good scene becuase it was just him and the water and sky as one.... haha that sounded cheesy! it didnt bring me to tears but it was like wow... .that is really.... really... amazing...
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01-29-2005, 10:55 PM
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Interesting......
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01-29-2005, 11:37 PM
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cool. 
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hm...cool!
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01-30-2005, 12:18 AM
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lol. When i first saw the movie, and wasnt a member of SS, I thought the tears were well done. But when i heard people saying his tears werent very realistic, then i started to doubt the acting, after watching the movie 2 more times, lol, i kinda saw what they meant. But the first time i saw it, i saw the tears as genuine, so the point got to me, even though now the tears seem abit fake.
exactly what i thought, i only got to see POA once in theaters, and then when i see it again at home i just kinda started thinking it didnt look real enough.
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01-30-2005, 03:11 AM
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In the promotional dvd, that was in the newspaper, from which the producer interviews came from, there were behind the scenes footage, and thy showed the crying scene, but it was different to the official one in the movie. It was interesting to see how different the actual one was to the behind the scenes one. I thought that it was abit overacted, mostly how he screamed 'he was their friend". I could not distinguish his crying from laughing, or any other emotion. It wasnt a very well acted scene. He looked frozen, and he just sat there with his hands by his sides. Maybe wiping away a tear would have made it better. lol
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01-30-2005, 07:00 AM
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I wish we could have gotten the DVD, my computer's too slow to download. I loved the Buckbeak scene. It wasnt cheesy, at least he didnt say, "I'm the king of the world!" And I agree, that the crying scene looked very fake and made me laugh, but the Trio are only getting better. So hopefully Dan will have a chance to prove himself as an actor!
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01-30-2005, 07:21 AM
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In the promotional dvd, that was in the newspaper, from which the producer interviews came from, there were behind the scenes footage, and thy showed the crying scene, but it was different to the official one in the movie.
I saw that one too. It was interesting indeed. You could see why they chose the one they used as the final one. They showed more than one i think, in those versions he was more rational than hysterical-anger, plus you couldnt tell he was crying, well he wasnt making crying noises. Quote:
I wish we could have gotten the DVD, my computer's too slow to download. I loved the Buckbeak scene. It wasnt cheesy, at least he didnt say, "I'm the king of the world!" And I agree, that the crying scene looked very fake and made me laugh, but the Trio are only getting better. So hopefully Dan will have a chance to prove himself as an actor!
You could get one off ebay if anyones selling it? Daniel will have the chance to prove his crying scenes in the part where he comes out of the maze and he is on the verge of tears, and even more in the school hospital ward when mrs weasley hugs him. But he is getting better, with the different facial expressions.
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01-30-2005, 07:24 AM
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I think the crying part wasn't acted too well.
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so ive heard
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