David Yates on Editing Prince's Tale
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MTV Blog: Yates Says Snape's Memories are Oddly Moving
"It didn't feel quite like a memory. It wasn’t quite evocative enough," Yates said. "I think we were telling too much story basically, so by fragmenting it, it just became oddly more moving ultimately."
The original sequence had a lot more conversation between Snape and Dumbledore, but Yates found that the memories had too much exposition and that was hurting the emotional impact of the scene. Instead, as those who have seen the movie will know, the memories are revealed in a non-linear fashion, with the final reveal of Snape holding a dead Lily Potter being all the more heart-breaking because of it.
"Rather than discovering things, you were being told things, so we took out anything that told you too much, and we crafted it so you just hopefully felt it," Yates said.
And MTV gives more kudos to Alan Rickman.
Rickman's performance in "Deathly Hallows: Part 2" is arguably the best of the entire series. With its huge box office numbers and great critical response so far, "Part 2" is already getting some serious Oscar buzz, and we think it's high time to start petitioning for Rickman to get a Best Supporting Actor nod.
MTV Blog: Yates Says Snape's Memories are Oddly Moving
"It didn't feel quite like a memory. It wasn’t quite evocative enough," Yates said. "I think we were telling too much story basically, so by fragmenting it, it just became oddly more moving ultimately."
The original sequence had a lot more conversation between Snape and Dumbledore, but Yates found that the memories had too much exposition and that was hurting the emotional impact of the scene. Instead, as those who have seen the movie will know, the memories are revealed in a non-linear fashion, with the final reveal of Snape holding a dead Lily Potter being all the more heart-breaking because of it.
"Rather than discovering things, you were being told things, so we took out anything that told you too much, and we crafted it so you just hopefully felt it," Yates said.
And MTV gives more kudos to Alan Rickman.
Rickman's performance in "Deathly Hallows: Part 2" is arguably the best of the entire series. With its huge box office numbers and great critical response so far, "Part 2" is already getting some serious Oscar buzz, and we think it's high time to start petitioning for Rickman to get a Best Supporting Actor nod.