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Might tick people off? Mess up the continunity? This entire series has been a continuation from one book to the next!!! Yes, by all means, put this into two movies. I wish they’d made OotP into two movies. Gone with the Wind was 4 hrs. long with intermission, why not this as well? Do these books justice, and make the films as in-depth as possible…..

I think a longer movie would be ok. I can sit for a 3 or a 31/2 hour movie if its good. Lord of the Rings was 3 hours and I had no problem with that. The real die hard fans could do it easy. But two movies would be ok too as long as they werent too far apart.

I’ve always felt that with each new film, they should have increased the length of it. But, they didn’t. In fact they did the exact opposite. OotP is the longest book, yet one of the shortest films of the series to date. I’m def a fan of making DH a 3+ hour movie. I’m more annoyed at the fact of some of the film makers attitudes to certain plots and characters in HBP, when they know what happens in the last one.

Nearly everyone who champions the idea of two movies doesn’t want anything left out. An 800-page book cannot be condensed into even a four-hour movie without leaving things out. Sometimes things translate well cinematically and sometimes they don’t. I for one don’t want to see the Trio wandering around in the forest and bickering for the majority of the movie, but if we’re going to be absolutely faithful to the book …

Sometimes cinema improves upon the original. I’ve said before that I felt the fifth movie surpassed the book in making Sirius’s death seem especially tragic. I credit Gary Oldman’s talent and the chemistry between him and Dan Radcliffe, as well as the director’s sensitivity (as opposed to his ego or his arrogance). In this instance, it wasn’t a matter of leaving things out but adding things in. In other words, a greater effect was achieved by NOT adhering to the book.

Please don’t equate “better” with “nothing left out”. The adaptation of the written word to the screen has absolutely nothing to do with this concept, and may in fact have more of an inverse relationship!

I like the idea of more screen time, but not of two separate films. I’m with you guys who are voting for an intermission. Just my opinion, but I think that would work best for everyone.

Right you are Ginevra, I wouldn’t mind a little less bickering in the woods too, but there is a big difference between DH and the other books. Accept for the bickering in the woods allmost everything is important, while in the other books there was a lot of attending classes and quidditch trainings that were much easier left out.

BellaSnape: Titanic is not a two part movie. It is one movie. I saw it at the movie. It was just split on VHS because it was so long.

i agree with Muddtallica. I perosnally don’t see the need for a two part movie. It is not nocessary. I personally think they can condense it into a nice 3 hour movie. If you just cut out/condense slightly the whole camping sequnece and cut out things like the bar scene and alot of the Burrow stuff and also condense alot of the ministry and Gringotts scenes. It really isn’t impossible because laot of the book hings don’t apply in te movies from the things that have already been cut. Like alot of Dumbledore’s backstory isn’t completely needed, excpt for the Grindewauld.

I just think two movies will be really bad for the overall story cause Deathly Hallows is one final story. Not two, but one. It wouldn’t work well and would be a mistake.

I think if you are right Leo, that the filmproducers will come to the same conclusion.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! They can’t split it – I’d go ‘Dementor’ed (pardon the pun) waiting to see what happened next. Can’t they just give the fans what we’ve wanted all along – one 4 hour long film that isn’t hacked to pieces! Please God it’s their last chance to get it right!

The book has too much information and it cannot be made in a two hours movie, they have got to split it to two movies with everything included. After all every body wants an incredible finish to the series and as for me it will be totally PERFECT and so should for the other great fans.

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Let them make two parts, perhaps they will do the last book justice. Already we are seeing that Half Blood Prince will another short movie as from the article saying just over 2 hrs. Sad that Yates butchered OOTP so badly, so much was left out, very crucial parts that were just cut away. Let Columbus direct the last films as he did the best directing them.

Am I alone in actually loving the camping around and bickering bit? It reminded me of bad camping holidays LOL! I did once wake up in a big puddle because we’d pitched our tent in a dip and it rained in the night (plus our tent blew away in a gale!). I thought the bit with Ron and Hermione arguing about the fish dinner was great and showed up Ron’s character perfectly (lazy, selfish, mollycoddled, .... sorry, I really hated him in DH, and haven’t quite got over it), and Hermione’s rant at Ron when he came back has just GOT to stay in. They could cut out a lot of the wandering about though, as they only need to give the impression of it and change of weather. They could do that with the wide shots introducing some of the important scenes.

It’s all the rest, how they find out about various things, that I’m intrigued about them fitting in. What I liked about the book was the gradual, detective manner in which they found out certain things, the meaning of the DH symbol for instance. I expect the films will have to remove much of that sense of discovery for time reasons.

“Besides, what’s unbelievable about audiences sitting through all of Titanic?” (Mudtallica)

Because it’s a godawful film? Sorry, I had to say that, I’m in a funny mood. I hated it.

Kill Bill’s a good example though. I didn’t realise that it was actually meant to be one film but I really didn’t like the first one as a stand alone film. Together, they do make more sense. There’s plenty they could have cut out to condense it, that stupidly unconvincing fight in Hong Kong for one.

I think there’s a lot they could cut out of DH to reduce it to a reasonably long single film. Did I just read that JK has given the producers a suggested alternative Hogwarts battle to reduce the time that takes?

If you take a close look at the book….a ton can be convincingly cut …and stress put at the end….where the most time and emphasis should be….to wrap up the series. I’m sure that everyone involved will think this through carefully. We must remember that the actors aren’t getting any younger…and there may be a time constraint on doing a 2 film deal.

Instead of two movies. Why not make it a 6 or 8 hour film. I love long movies like that, but unfortunately I might be in the minority.

they only want to do it, because the hobbit is doing it. milk the cow

Emma, they allready had this idea before, during the fourth movie. It’s hardly a new idea. And it’s not just milking the cow, read the book and see. There is much more story to be told than in the other books. Maybe two films won’t be needed, but I think if that’s true, then the producers will come to that conclusion themselfs too.

I still don’t understand why the producers think they have to shrink the HP movies to “just over 2 hours.” That is ludicrous!!!! I have seen plenty of non-blockbuster movies and movies without the HUGE fan base that HP has that are over 2 hours—so why can’t such a big franchise as HP have 3-4 hour movies? Why doesn’t some interviewer ever ask that question to the producers?

I hope they won’t stop themselves from making 2 movies because of fear to be criticized.. because, oh I’d feel really bad, right, paying another $10 just to have another full movie of the best book in the Harry Potter series! What a bad deal !!! I want less of HP7, sure…

So far I feel like the HP movies are like action movies, so full and fast pace you don’t have time to think… they don’t have at all the same flavor as the books. Why not try a change for movie 7? Try 2 !

And for LMB3 who thinks we should cut when Harry finds the sword.. that is not a bad idea, except I would cut AFTER Ron saves Harry. It would be positive, and it would end with excitement. LOTR2 ended after the battle was won, not before.

i think that maybe they shouldn’t make it into two separate films, but make it two parts, somewhat like the Sound of Music and how there’s an “intermission” in between both parts. i also have to agree with Stephen on the whole thing about putting both parts on the same DVD. that would certainly make people’s lives much easier.