I've made it. The film was good. I haven't read the book yet but I felt the film was a summary of what happens in 760 page book. There were parts that I needed to try to fill the gap between each scene in order to feel the sense of characters. However, I have no idea how to narrow 760 page book into a 2 hour film. Fortunately, I found an interview that the director talks about the process of how he managed to make it into one film.
"And so they(Warner Bros.) said to me, if you can see a way in which your conviction, your storytelling convictions can survive the impact of 760 pages then it's worth us having a conversation, but if you can't see a way of cutting the material down to single film length - then you've just got to be straight with us and we'll move on.
So I read it and what I saw - this was the big, big come-on for me - was that I could see that there was, to my eye, an absolutely classical thriller at the base of this which was like North by Northwest. It has a hero, Cary Grant - or Harry Potter who at the beginning of the story knows absolutely nothing except some weird stuff begins to happen...But of course the audience knows that James Mason is behind all this - or Ralph Fiennes. Then the progress of the film is a matter of the hero finding out just how bad a jam he is in, and only just managing to avoid it. [...] I said, I can only make this if you will agree that what we're making is a thriller and we will ruthlessly take out stuff that doesn't go to that, to that way of telling the story."
(http://www.darkhorizons.co
Maybe I should watch it again now... One thing I noticed as a difference between previous directors and him by going through the interviews is that I didn't find Mike Newell talking about J.K. Rowling. (Let me know if you find a source that he talks about her because I'd like to read it.) Thanks.
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