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05-19-2004, 09:53 PM
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[img]http://www.snitchseeker.com/images/news/alfonso_cuaron_80.jpg' align='middle'> The new Wizard behind "Harry Potter" - Another interview with Alfonso Cuaron Summary:
The Philipine Daily Inquirer has another interview with Alfons Cuaron. Article: The new Wizard behind "Harry Potter" The Philipine Daily Inquirer has yet another interview with the director of PoA, Alfonso Cuaron.
Here are some select quotes; Quote: Columbus said he had great input from J.K. Rowling, but was mostly given free rein working on the films. How much contact did you have or how much input did you receive from Ms Rowling in the course of filming?
I met with Jo a couple of times. We talked about my approach to the third movie and she mentioned there were a couple of things that were important for her in the book. She's great, from the get-go she gave me all her blessings and freedom. She is also so eloquent in the universe that you have to do nothing but to listen when she has something to say.
Together with the returning characters, Gary Oldman and Emma Thompson join this cast, making it a particularly formidable cast. How did you feel about that?
I had really great new parts and I worked with actors I had always really wanted to work with. David Thewlis plays an amazing Professor Lupin, and I'm so happy with what Gary Oldman did as Sirius Black because it was a tough role in that he has to really fulfill the expectations of the people who are seeing him. Emma Thompson is the most eccentric, funny woman that I ever met in my life-I had so much fun working with her. Timothy Spall-I always wanted to work with him ever since I saw him in Mike Leigh's films. In terms of the tone, what we tried to do was really ground it, to make the acting style very naturalistic because we wanted to ground it in the emotion of these characters rather than the magic. We wanted to make a character-driven movie that has visual effects, and it was not tough as we had great source material and great actors. What I told Fiona Shaw about the scenes in Privet Drive should be like a Mike Leigh movie-let's try and bring the farce out of it, there's enough humor already in these characters. I prefer to have Harry Potter in a more grounded universe and then escape into the opposite of that, which is Hogwarts. Hogwarts is also a very grounded universe-it respects its own rules.
What was the biggest challenge you faced in filming "Prisoner"?
There were scenes that were difficult because of the length of the shoot, for example, the Shrieking Shack shot forever. We shot forever because it was a very long scene that incorporated a lot of actors and we suffered some scheduling problems. The challenge was to do a whole action scene when you don't have all the stuff, like doing a scene with planes bombing except you don't have the planes so you have the actors running around. Daniel Radcliffe was amazing-he has such an amazing visual imagination and he understands the rules so well. It's easy with kids because you can ask them to make-believe. They can do that immediately, but it's not so easy for the adults. With the three kids, I just received them in the best moment. They had done two big movies before, they understood everything about the technical aspects, the craft around them, and they were 13 years old-that means that they are at an age when they start taking themselves seriously as actors and that they want to learn and improve their craft. I'm so thankful for these guys because they really went for it, they really wanted to go beyond what they had done before. For example, previously they used to break up the shots because they had a problem remembering their lines. This time they were older, more focused. In the beginning, they were a little scared because they hadn't done it before, but then they started doing and enjoying it. Now Mike Newell, director of the fourth movie, is going to receive them already knowing the technical aspects and having done an "emotional workshop." Mike is such a perfectionist in terms of performance, after number four, these kids are going to be the best actors in England! I'm really excited about what Mike is going to do with these kids.
And what is next for you after "Prisoner of Azkaban"?
Sleeping... many years of it on a nice beach.
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05-19-2004, 10:02 PM
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05-19-2004, 10:03 PM
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Ahh nice interview...
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05-19-2004, 10:54 PM
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nice interview; Cuaron and the others def worked hard on PoA..
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05-20-2004, 01:24 AM
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thats was a interesting interview! Well I hope the tro continue in the rest of the flims that was they will be more experienced and the films will keep getting better and better.
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05-20-2004, 02:33 AM
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waaaaaaaaaay cool!
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05-20-2004, 03:01 AM
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cool interview... hes not doing the GOF? oh, i think hes done realy good things to the PoA.... darn.
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05-20-2004, 03:31 AM
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:sorcerer: :sorcerer: i like the interview.
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05-20-2004, 03:40 AM
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Cool interview. It seems that with every movie, they kick it up a notch.
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05-20-2004, 10:19 AM
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cool interview...hmm...guess i have to read our newspaper often...didn't know that they have interview with Alfonso...  | |
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