All this practice has allowed the creative team, including returning cinematographer Eduardo Serra, to relax into its best self without having to learn the territory all over again. Screenwriter Steve Kloves has scripted seven of the eight Potter films, and David Yates has directed four of them. “Deathly Hallows - Part 2" also benefits from sticking with experienced and capable people at the top.
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To give just two examples, more than 200,000 golden coins and thousands of other pieces were created to convincingly fill a vault at Gringotts bank, and so much furniture and objects were bought to make Hogwarts’ enormous Room of Requirement look more crowded than Charles Foster Kane’s storehouse that the set dressing department was busy for months buying up bric-a-brac. That willingness to do whatever it took to bring Stuart Craig’s exceptional production designs to life no matter how painstaking the task is central to the new film’s success as well. Though no expense has been spared in its production, it succeeds because it brings us back to the combination of magic, adventure and emotion that created the books’ popularity in the first place.Īll that talent couldn’t have come cheap, and the other consistent factor in the Potter universe is the production’s refusal to skimp or pinch pennies. The Harry Potter films, like the boy wizard himself, have had their creative ups and downs, so it’s especially satisfying that this final film, ungainly title and all, has been worth the wait.
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Almost magically, it ends up being one of the best of the series as well. In a classic storybook finish, however, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2" turns out to be more than the last of its kind. has unwrapped the Harry Potter advertising line it hoped it would never have to use: “It all ends.”
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The following review of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2” was first published July 31, 2011.Īfter seven previous films over a 10-year span, $2 billion in domestic box office and still more treasure overseas, Warner Bros. From our archives, we’re resurfacing The Times’ original reviews of each Harry Potter film adaptation. Today marks the 20th anniversary of the first book in J.K.