Just curious as I like a lot of Cuaron and Columbus' other work. I think Yates did a superb job with OOTP and a good job with HBP, however I was disappointed the first time I saw it but it grew on me.
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Just curious as I like a lot of Cuaron and Columbus' other work. I think Yates did a superb job with OOTP and a good job with HBP, however I was disappointed the first time I saw it but it grew on me.
HP- Harry Potter.
OOTP- Order of the Phoenix
HBP- Half Blood Prince
Columbus- director of first 2 Potter flicks, as well as other movies I like.
Director of third HP (see above) movie, and other movies I like.
They don't connect to this film. But the director who directed this film directed the most recent HP movies. I like a lot of Columbus' and Cuaron's other work, so I'm wondering whether I would probably like some of David Yates (director of this film and last 2 HP movies) other work as well based on that.
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Yates was best known (at least to me) as the director of this film and the series "State of Play." I had seen all of these before OOTP and was surprised that Yates, who on the basis of these telefilms showed himself a competent, workmanlike TV director, would've been picked as the next director of a HP film after an outright visionary like Cuaron and a capable director like Mike Newell. I'm not sure, but I think OOTP was his first actual film to be released to cinemas (unless "Girl" did have a ROW theatrical distribution; it was produced by and broadcast on HBO in the States).
I actually thought OOTP was pretty good, but HBP was -awful-. So I can't argue that Yates possesses a coherent sensibility that would posit him as an auteur (as Cuaron indubitably is). Before HP, I would've said that Yates was a director with some political engagement in him; but his HP films show little spark of that (though arguably there's some). I think at most you can say that he's a director who gives a studio solid delivery.
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I should warn you -- he's a Fourierist.
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I love this film. This film is closer in style and tone to Cuaron's A Little Princess.
I also like HP, but mainly because I read the books. If you're looking for something similar to HP, this isn't it.