I have thought the filmmakers ignored -too much- the great humor Jo puts in her books but she levels it so well with tragedy and darkness
it should also be balanced in the films as well.
Hopefully this film will not turn into a teenage romantic comedy.:(
I am looking forward to it very much but I hope
the seriousness that is also in the book is also there.
Anytime I can read an interview fron Daniel Radcliffe I’m having a great day.This one didn’t disappointment and as usual let me know his mind setand his vocabulary so amazes me. Loved Yates ,David Heyman’s and Elmelda Strauton’s comments about the trio. I’m hoping also that Yates can buy Columbus that pint [or two].
Heh. No light stuff in the near future for Mister Radcliffe (I can hear a collective awww from the danlovahs…mwahaha)
Sounds cool! I am dying to see the movie and my computer wont even let me watch the interview sniff sniff but o well like i said i can not wait for HBP and DH
-HPfreak
I really don’t like that they’re calling this film a light romantic comedy. No, I don’t like that at all. The humour and the romance is fun, yeah, but it’s hardly the most important thing in the book… :S
GREAT ARTICLE!!! Loved the links!!!! The trio has matured and I miss the little munchkins.
Maturing child stars everywhere, take note, you don’t have to go crazy and make fools of yourselves when coming of age!!!!.
As for the HBP being a little lighter . . . quiet before the storm.
i agree Amy S.i dont like to all.i want half blood prince not comedy.this is not children movie now plaese dont do this.i dont care hermione&ron relantionship.
I bet Dan is bored, after doing Equus, everything else must seem pretty tame.
Once Dan is done with HP, and all that phase is left behind him, I truly doubt we’ll see him again in kid roles.
He leans to the dark stuff, he worships Oldman, he’s made some heavy connections and I wouldn’t be surprised if he just acted in whatever quirky, odd or out of the ordinary role he could get his hands on. He’s got enough money NOT to do it for the cash so he might not be interested in formulaic FX blockbusters for the near future. Which is good. If he manages to shed the HP image succesfully I’m sure he’ll have a bright acting career ahead of him.
I love it when interviewers get Emma to talk about the books. Her answers are always so thoughtful. I’d love to hear more from her about them. Come on media, it’s way past time to move on from the usual boring questions…this girl’s got Hermione-like BRAINS!
And Dan…well he’s grown up so beautifully and I ADORE him!
After reading this, it’s clear to me the only one who put attention while reading the books is Radcliffe. What on earth is what Emma Watson is talking about? Hermione is not the center of the world! she is not the one who made Harry realize that, it was Dumbledore who told him that he needs his friends. I’m a little tired of Emma stealing things from Dumbledore, it seems Kloves is not the only one who likes to do that. And although I agree with some of you that humor is one of the great things of these books, there is a lot of dark stuff in the last 2 books. It’s stupid, in my opinion, they have forgotten about Jo’s fantastic sense of humor in the previous 5 movies and now they want to put all of it in just one?? I hope I’m wrong but I have the impression the filmakers (producers, director, scriptwriter…) are giving too much importance to things that are secondary in the book, and they are forgetting the important plots. The only romantic relationship really important in HBP book is Harry and Ginny, I wouldn’t even call Ron-Laverder a relationship. And things like quidditch are not important either, it’s just a way Jo uses to show other things. But it seems they are forgetting about Harry learning about Voldermot’s past, the horcruxes, Harry learning more about Snape too, Dumbledore and Harry spending more time together, even things like Lupin and Tonks are much more important than quiditch and stupid WonWon and his Lav Lav and Emma’s wish to make Hermione the center of the world.
Good interview: I wouldn’t worry too much about the “romantic comedy” thing, I take that more as an acknowledgment that HBP is tonally somewhat lighter than the brooding OotP.
In all honesty, now that I come to think about it, the regression towards frothier adolescent school hijinks that characterises much of the first two-thirds of Half-Blood Prince has always been one of my central problems with it; tonally, it seems like a weird backwards step in a series that otherwise gets gradually and logically darker as it progresses. I mean, on the one side of Book Six you’ve got Harry’s isolation, the death of Sirius and the tyranny of Umbridge, and on the other side you’ve got Dumbledore’s murder and the dark duty of the Horcrux search; in this context, all the lightweight dalliances with Romilda Vane, McLaggen, Lav-Lav and the Slug Club just seemed oddly trivial and tonally out of kilter to me, a weird throwback to the more carefree days of Books Two and Three, but one that seemed out of place in the darker post-GoF climate. I guess all of the books featured a balance of humour and drama to some extent, but HBP’s tonal problems were compounded by the fact that its main narratives were the weakest of the series, in my view: the “what’s Malfoy up to” plotline felt like a diluted retread of CoS’s whodunnit structure, whilst the actual Half-Blood Prince/mysterious textbook strand promised a lot, but didn’t really go anywhere in the end. As such, they just ended up getting swamped by the “light relief” elements of the story…thank goodness, then, for the intriguing Pensieve plotline, which picked up the slack of the other storylines and kept the momentum going long enough to ease the book into its fantastically dramatic ending, one of the best 100 pages in the whole series. For me, that’s what really rescued HBP, and it’ll be what I’m lloking forward to seeing come November 2008. In that respect, seems like I’m with Mr. Radcliffe… :)
I have to say, a good portion of this book is quite romantic-comedy-like (no no, not all of it). The interview said something like ‘While Half-Blood Prince does have dark passages it will emphasize the romantic entanglements,’ which I think sounds quite nice. I’ll enjoy the last big hurrah of romance and comedy while I can, as DH will certainly be almost all dark.
I’m with Dan all the way! the OOTP movie was fantastic because it was dark, deep and emotional, I hope they’re not turning HBP in a romantic comedy. Dan is great in angsty scenes (like sirius’death) so I hope they’re going to give him the chance to show his acting skills again. After all dumbledore dies in this one, so it’s definetely not so “light”
aw.. another interview with these trio. I love them much!