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Old 12-10-2003, 09:39 PM
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[img]http://www.snitchseeker.com/images/news/hogwarts_80.jpg' align='middle'> GoF Director Interview - Interview from DarkHorizons.com

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Darkhorizons.com has an interview with Mike Newell discussing GoF.



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Interview: Mike Newell
"Mona Lisa Smile" & "Harry Potter 4"
Posted: Tuesday December 9th, 2003 11:00 PM
Author: Paul Fischer
Location: Los Angeles, CA



Mike Newell is a director whose diversity is apparent. While movie goers may flock to see his predominantly female starrer Mona Lisa Smile, many more will descend in droves to see his next film, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The director of such films as Four Weddings and a Funeral and Pushing Tin, has no doubts as to why he chose to go from one cinematic extreme to the other. “I am of a generation in England that was brought up (at a time when) you could work and find out how to work in television. And television was omnivorous then. It was very varied and it was full of extraordinarily diverse opinions and points of view and talents. You could never say, ‘I don't comedy. I don't do thrillers. I don't do this or that or the other.’ You did everything. One of the things that I found when I began a different line of work was that people were much happier if you did the same thing all the time, because that was quantifiable. I don't know why Ang Lee made The Hulk, but it may be that the Ice Storm Ang Lee made The Hulk because he was bored by being asked to make The Ice Storm again. There is a huge virtue for us guys in variety. Also, it's something to tell your grandchildren,” he adds, smilingly.

Newell believes that it’s possible to take such an established franchise as the Potter films and make it your own. “Obviously, that's what you try to do. Chris Columbus made the first two, and those were a particular kind of film. Alfonso Cuaron is making the third, and it is radically different, and for me there is a story worth telling.” Newell confirmed that the original children will be returning for Goblet. “But, whether (Daniel Radcliffe) will be back beyond this or not, I don't know. But he will be the same age as the character should be. The (other two kids) will (repeat their parts as well). But listen, one of the reasons to do it is that the way you literally make a film is that you take a subject and you hone it and you hone it and you hone it until it is an arrow, and it goes as straight as you can make it to the middle, if you can manage it, of the target. These stories aren't that at all. These are like Bollywood in that they're all singing, all dancing. They're like variety shows and you can have that spine to them, but, at the same time, you've got to hang the baskets of flowers off of the spine. That's a huge and very amusing challenge to take on.”

He sees Goblet as “an absolute classic thriller. At the beginning, the antagonist, the anti-hero, the creature of supreme evil has a plan. He needs one tiny, tiny little thing from the boy: three drops of blood. Therefore he sets up this gorgeous piece of clockwork which will get him what he needs. And the boy, classically, starts, as all thriller heroes do, in complete ignorance, and then you watch him ratchet around until and he and the antagonist are in exactly the same place at the same time, knowing everything.” Asked if there is one section of the book that, as a filmmaker, is especially irresistible for him to tackle, he is very clear and excited. “Yeah, the big denouement, the big shootout at the end is very exciting, not least because the antagonist starts as a kind of horrible foetus wrapped up in a bundle of rags and has to become this great looming presence. You have to transform it.”

All of this is in stark contrast to Newell’s Mona Lisa Smile, a 1953-set drama about a forward-thinking art history teacher determined to reach out to a cluster of conservative young women. Partly a socio-political comment on the role of young middle-class women of their time, Newell aggress that the film could have been even more political outside of the big studio system. “I think the writers will have felt that, but curiously I don't think it would have been in the political arena so much. But the straight answer to the question is yes. If this had been a low-budget independent movie, of course (it would have gone deeper). I think, in a way, the thing that would have been most affected is that we would have been tougher about the technical aspects of it; that is to say the teaching. The pictures that were referred to would probably have been referred to in a different kind of way. We would have become more rarefied, more intellectualized. I don't necessarily think that would have been a good thing. It was quite clear when I saw (the script), that it wanted to be a big, popular movie, that could be done with honour, so I knew what was happening.”

As for working with star/producer Roberts, Newell was more than surprised by her. “She's really, really clever. I think that one of the days that gave me most pleasure was we had this very odd situation where we had to shoot, literally, the last scene of the film first. At eight o'clock in the morning of day one we were shooting the last scene of the movie, which is a very difficult thing to do. All of the Wellesley stuff had to be done in the first week or 10 days because of the leaves on the trees. We had to have the seasons, and we started shooting in September. So we had to do this stuff wildly out of sequence. And there was a shot we had to do where Julia comes out of a scene right at the end of the film, where the girls are giving her the paintings. She comes out onto a terrace and the camera goes around and around and around her, and she has to feel certain things. Julia found it difficult, as you would. Who wouldn't find it difficult? She came to me and said, 'I'm finding this very difficult.' We then had an absolutely adorable conversation for about 20 minutes, about what the moment was, how she would feel about that. It was a real exchange of views and it was very profitable. It was the beginning of a path that we took through the film, and I was very affectionate towards that memory”.



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i guess that kool...........
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Cool, I cant wait to go see both of them..well POA first and then we will see.
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Old 12-11-2003, 02:17 AM   #4 (permalink)
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i aggre with Fred_Weasley

it sorta is interesting long but kewl i guess
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hope he does a good job....and i'm glad if he uses Dan, Rupert and Emma again. The book was amazing! !
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hope he does a good job....and i'm glad if he uses Dan, Rupert and Emma again. The book was amazing! !
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He seems a cool director :sorcerer:
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Awesome! I can't wait to see PoA and GoF. They will be so different from the first two. But I like that, I like variety, I like comparing different directing styles and stuff like that. I also want to see Mona Lisa Smile. Ever since I saw the preview, I thought it would be a really cooly film to see. Julia Roberts is one of my favorite actresses, and so is Julia Stiles, and I believe she's in it too...?Anyway, I told my friend about the new director yesterday, but she'll probably be upset. I don't think she's very fond of change. She really liked Chris Culumbus, and she wasn't exaclty chuffed about Cuaron directing PoA...I was. But anyhoodles, I think this is a really cool bit of news. :flowersmile:
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Cool... :sorcerer: :sorcerer:
So he directed the new Julia Roberts movie... I've seen the trailer of that and it looks cool...
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i can't wait, i don't want any other actors playing the parts, it will feel wrong
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cooool very ccoollll
any news aboout Tom doin' anymoire films?
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I like the change of directors. It gives the movies a different feel each time. The first two were very similar, so I cannot wait to see how Cuaron does. This new director sounds great. I loved 'Two Weddings and a Funeral'.
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cant w8 4 gof
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Old 12-11-2003, 12:39 PM   #15 (permalink)
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yer poa's gonna b sooooo kool!!!!!! its my fave book... wait... :unsure: no i like them all!! i hope dan stays 4 all of them... theres only 1 harry... :wub:
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Excellent, about time we also have a British Director, im looking forward to see what new angle he will bring, Four weddings and a Funeral was hilarious, hes seems to be more of a comedy Director, so it will be very interesting to see how he portrays GOF.
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GoF does have alot of comedy in it. I think he will do an amazing job, also because he's british and will finally be able to make it look and feel truly british.
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I totally agree Marcella. :flowersmile:

Also it depends on how Steve Kloves writes it, but hes done really well so far I feel. Im looking forward to see how they film the challenges and the fight with Voldie at the end. There I go, wishing my life away again......
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GoF's my favourite book! sounds like mike newell's keeping true to the story.
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cool i hope he dose and great job on the fourth movie
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Originally posted by Marcella_Riddle@Dec 11 2003, 10:19 AM
GoF does have alot of comedy in it. I think he will do an amazing job, also because he's british and will finally be able to make it look and feel truly british.
I think that bringing a more Brittish view to the movies would be fabulous!
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I agree.. I think it'll make them better.. can't wait
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i read it again n it does answers me question he says ALL da kids r doin' 4 but dey don't no wether dan is doin 5! so i take it dat Tom is included in dat!? or am i just wrong?!?
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:ermsmile: So, are they definately doing the 4th movie?
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Great article! :flowersmile:
PoA is my faverite book but I also like GoF. I can't wait to see it in film. I mean, he has to come up with a veelas, leperchons, dragons, merpeople, blastended skrewts*shivers*, and most importent of all, Lord Voldemort. He has quite a job ahead of him. But if he dose it right, it will be wonderful. Here's hoping that he dose a great job! *fingers are crossed* lol

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GoF does have alot of comedy in it. I think he will do an amazing job, also because he's british and will finally be able to make it look and feel truly british
I agree with that!! :sorcerer:
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