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08-05-2011, 10:21 PM
| | First official Deathly Hallows: Part 2 epilogue photos released; cast, crew talk film
Daniel Radcliffe, David Yates, and producer David Heyman recently discussed the decision to reshoot the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 epilogue at Leavesden Studios in December 2010, rather than keep the original footage from King's Cross for a variety of reasons, not least being that they realised how old the cast looked in the first shoot. The LA Times also released the first official promotional images from the epilogue, with peeks at Dan, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, and Bonnie Wright as Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny in their later 30s, as well as their Potter and Weasley children. Those can be found in our galleries. “Potter” producer David Heyman was thinking of that when he told Radcliffe that there was no way that three “strangers” could deliver the final lines of the three main characters right before the final fade to black.
“After all we have been through with these characters, the way that a generation has grown up with them, they need to be the ones on screen when it’s time to bring it to a close,” said Heyman, who was a key decision-maker back when Radcliffe and his costars were first cast in their roles back in 2000. “There’s an expectation — even if it is not articulated — that they need to be on the screen when it’s coming to an end.” “The thing we didn’t want was for it to be distracting and I think we figured it out,” Radcliffe said. “We did it with prosthetics, in the end, and I’m sure there will be little bits of visual effects for retouching on those moments when we do a close-up… when you have the prosthetic on for a long time, it’s hard to maintain it, that illusion, and with close-ups you need to fix it up. It’s also a challenge to make someone who is 19 or 20 — an age where their face is still changing — and make them a fully grown adult. I think they looked fantastic though and, if I do say so, particularly mine. Mine looked pretty dead on. That’s me in the future I think.”
“Rupert looked like he was about 75 years old with the triple chin and the belly, he looked like he had really lived as a lush,” Heyman said. “We knew we needed to rework the makeup. There was another problem, too, shooting at the train station proved quite challenging for some of the younger kids who played the children of Harry, Ron and Hermione. It was really noisy every few minutes a train from Liverpool would pull in on one of the other tracks. We only had our one track closed.” The makeup team for “Deathly Hallows” was led by Nick Dudman and, to Heyman, the second shot on the “age-up” work was a home run.
“It made all the difference in the world,” Heyman said. “We got what we were looking for. There was a challenge in the performance for the young actors. I know Emma talked about her approach was to think of her young siblings — her father has remarried and she has a new family — and how being with them was her way to get into the head of a parent going off to school. It wasn’t easy for them.”
“We should have thought to film it last in the first place,” Heyman said Wednesday. “It created a reality of sorts to the feelings in the scene and in the air. And I think now we’ve heard from the rest of the world that it worked. In the end, we used some shots from King’s Cross, too, to make a hybrid. There was a little bit of CG as well. The combination is subtle, which it needed to be.” “It was something very strange and affecting,” Heyman said. “I was really pleased because I thought there was a real tenderness about the last scene, a feeling of closure and the cycles of life. There’s a new beginning and there’s an ending. There are different sorts of adventures for these actors and for all of us. But we made it to the train station together.” |
08-07-2011, 06:56 AM
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| Party PlimpyI gave Frodo time-out Firecrab
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I loved the movie so much, and the epilogue was good...but I had a certain attachment to that final shot of the three of them at Hogwarts. It was so intimate to everything they had been through together. I almost wished they had left it at that.
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08-07-2011, 09:53 AM
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| Puffskein
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Alexandra 'Alex' Potter Fifth Year | =) Peeta Mellark <3||x.Dobby's Love For Socks.x||<3 Katniss Everdeen (= I was waitinng for James to run around a corner and go "Teddys snogging Victorie!" lol xx
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08-07-2011, 12:38 PM
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| Lobalug
Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: United States
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this movie/book put were both amazing, put everything together in the end. i honestly cant say anything negitive about this movie it was perfect to the book, i couldn't have asked for better honestly. and the truth is i dont want it all to end, i wish it could just keep going.
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08-07-2011, 04:52 PM
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| Murtlap
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Also wish Harry would have at least put his arm around Ginny or something he seems so distant from everyone. I know they want it to be that he stands out a little but jeez you're waving good bye to your kids for the school year! Maybe that is just me.
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08-08-2011, 12:26 AM
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| Doxy
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Ron looked about 45 and like he enjoyed his food too much.....i did not think one could have as many wrinkles in the mid 30s as Harry and Ron did.
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08-08-2011, 02:09 AM
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| Streeler
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I loved loved loved the Epilogue. I thought it was done amazingly and it really hit me hard when I saw all 3 of them grown up with their families and sending their children off to Hogwarts.
The music was just...*speechless*.
They couldn't have chosen a better music piece to play for the final scene. I thought Dan, Emma, and Rupert played their part brilliantly I am soo glad they didn't cast 'strangers' to close the series, it had to be them.
If anything, I wish they had made it a bit longer and maybe chosen a better angle for the very last shot of when they zoomed in on the trio because they sort of cut Ron off.
Anyway, the Epilogue is one of my favourite scenes in the movie |
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08-08-2011, 04:23 AM
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| Murtlap
Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Chile
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I loved the epilogue! the only I wish they had done is Teddy kissing Victoire!! hehe love the couple |
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08-08-2011, 07:58 AM
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| Dugbog
Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: New Zealand
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I love how Hermione looks exactly the same, Ron has now established himself a stomach and Ginny just makes me laugh. In saying all that Harry Potter looks perfect!
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08-08-2011, 10:48 AM
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| Puffskein
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I wanted to cry so much in this scene!
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08-08-2011, 05:03 PM
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| Gnome
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Yeah, too bad that Hermione was the only one who didnt age as opposed to Ginny who seemed to have aged by 5 yrs more than the ones she is suppose to be younger than! Too bad that they still couldnt get the movie epilogue right. Looking forward the the HBO miniseries of HP. Sorry, I am saying it.
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08-08-2011, 05:05 PM
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| Gnome
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Originally Posted by NannyO Also wish Harry would have at least put his arm around Ginny or something he seems so distant from everyone. I know they want it to be that he stands out a little but jeez you're waving good bye to your kids for the school year! Maybe that is just me. I couldnt agree more. Was it me or was it in the book when they interacted with one another at the end? Typical of the Yates/Kloves production of what not to do.
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08-10-2011, 11:16 AM
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| Jarvey
Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Haguenau, France
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Those pics are awesome!
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08-16-2011, 08:02 PM
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| Flobberworm
Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Philippines
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Originally Posted by Ronni13 I thought that the epilouge wasn't as good as I thought it would be. agree with you... i thought it was lacking... i was hoping they put the whole epilogue in the movie... since i think they still have the time to do it... but anyways.. i like the movie all in all.. was just hoping they put additional info at the end |
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08-23-2011, 01:56 PM
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| Bundimun
Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Ireland
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Amortentia Anemone First Year |
I cry when the epilogue ended.
It's an amazing scene...
A true masterpiece.
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08-26-2011, 12:32 AM
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| Flobberworm
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it was a great epilogue
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09-05-2011, 10:15 AM
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| Snidget
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Nice photos..
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