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UNITED STATES · 2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
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Synopsis
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills.
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David Yates wanted the final Harry-Voldemort confrontation to feel inevitable, mythic, decided by fate rather than skill. He watched Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and saw how Leone built the tension: extreme close-ups of eyes, the score building across unbearable silence, death arriving as punctuation. Yates borrowed Leone's grammar for the duel. In a 2011 Los Angeles Times interview, he was explicit about this influence. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly streams on Criterion Channel.
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