I'm sorry but the costumes are still boring for the kind of colourful world these characters supposedly inhabit and that's a big problem I have with David Yates' Harry Potter films as well: everything is grey and visually uninteresting. The story here also doesn't seem that interesting to me.

Batfan175 wrote: ↑

March 14th, 2018, 1:59 am

I'm sorry but the costumes are still boring for the kind of colourful world these characters supposedly inhabit and that's a big problem I have with David Yates' Harry Potter films as well: everything is grey and visually uninteresting. The story here also doesn't seem that interesting to me.

Harry Potter is colorful? Huh. I thought they escaped to Hogsmeade to get some color back in their, essentially, ‘regular’ wizardring lives. It’s actually a perfect mirror to our own world, just with a bit of sparkled levitating magic.

Stronger Rowling effort + New directorial voice are essentials for me to be really interested in this universe again.

At least, it looks like it may have that first condition. Please get someone else than Yates for the remaining three films

Now Where Was I ? wrote: ↑

March 14th, 2018, 9:37 am

Stronger Rowling effort + New directorial voice are essentials for me to be really interested in this universe again.

At least, it looks like it may have that first condition. Please get someone else than Yates for the remaining three films

Yates did a great job with the final Potter films. Even if the first Fantastic Beasts was just mediocre, I think it's a little bit early to call him off. Let's see how this movie turns out first.

Also, IMO the direction was not what was wrong with the first one. It had a weak story. Now, with Grindelwald, Dumbledore and Hogwarts in the equation, the story should be more compelling.

Jude Law:

On J.K. Rowling’s notes on Dumbledore:
I had the good fortune and opportunity to sit with [author and screenwriter] J.K. Rowling shortly after we started work on it. She gave me a very good sense of Albus’ life journey and who he was and what was happening in his head and his heart and his world for this particular story…
The one thing that came out was the sense of play. He has a youthful mercurial approach to life, but that there’s something that hangs heavy in his heart, in his past, that underlies all of that. There’s a root of good humor and good heart and sense of self and a sense of past.

On Albus Dumbledore at this point in his long life:
This is a man with almost 100 years ahead of him before he became that character so we wanted to look at who he was in this moment and construct our own version. It makes me laugh when he’s called “Young Albus” because I’m 45, so I’m more in the middle of a midlife crisis, but I’m happy to hold onto that as long as I can!
As I mentioned before, there’s a sense of humor and mischief, a dash of anarchy, a sense of what’s right and what he believes in, and a sense of mystery. There’s also how he comes around to get people onto his way of thinking — which is rather indirectly. He also has a certain heaviness about him that I don’t want to reveal too much about — and that’s something he has to overcome, or hopes to overcome. He’s also got a great passion for sharing his knowledge, he’s a powerful and inclusive teacher.

On Dumbledore’s role at Hogwarts in this film:
He doesn’t teach Transfiguration, actually, not at this stage … in his career, he’s not. I’m not sure I’m allowed to say what he teaches … I only get to cast one [spell]. There’s a lot you don’t know about Albus in this film. And there are certain restrictions in storytelling — you’ll see, it all makes sense. You don’t see him in full flow yet.
Albus doesn’t have the Elder Wand yet, no. I have a wand. It’s very reflective of him, beautiful dark wood root with a stone on one end.

On Dumbledore’s sexuality:
Jo Rowling revealed some years back that Dumbledore was gay. That was a question I actually asked Jo and she said, yes, he’s gay. But as with humans, your sexuality doesn’t necessarily define you; he’s multifaceted. I suppose the question is: How is Dumbledore’s sexuality depicted in this film? What you got to remember this is only the second Fantastic Beasts film in a series and what’s brilliant about Jo’s writing is how she reveals her characters, peels them to the heart over time. You’re just getting to know Albus in this film, and there’s obviously a lot more to come. We learn a little about his past in the beginning of this film, and characters and their relationships will unfold naturally which I’m excited to reveal. But we’re not going to reveal everything all at once.

On Dumbledore’s relationship with Newt and Grindelwald:
I think he admires in Newt this sense of moral code that he will always do the right thing because he can’t do anything but the right thing. I think he likes that Newt finds beauty in beasts because I think occasionally Dumbledore feels like a beast. And there’s a master and mentee kind of relationship. And Newt isn’t afraid to say when he thinks Dumbledore is wrong, it’s not servitude.
I don’t actually have any scenes with Johnny. As I said before, this is only Part 2 of a longer story. I’ve always admired him from afar, but we don’t know each other, and I’ve not yet met him on this. In many ways that suits the relationship as it’s been many years since they’ve seen each other. So there’s complexity in that that’s fun to mine. Again, the past will reveal itself.

yates was the worst thing to happen to these movies since I actually (mostly) love a lot of the screenplay for Fantastic Beasts 1, even if Rowling could stand to learn a bit about cinematic structure vs literary.


-Vader

It's a pity that he's going to direct ALL OF THESE FILMS.

smh

Imagine if they got Cuarón for one of these.

Or Paul King.