hey everyone welcome to greenlight so today we're going to look at uh
the press conference for filmmaker david yates on um secrets of dumbledore
but these stories bring such a collective together to work on them and there's
something really beautiful and enjoyable about working with the people around me which is a
great pleasure when you make a movie it's a huge logistical enterprise and it's tough
and creatively logistically technically and so going into that experience with people
you respect and admire but who also can take the strain of it with some real dignity and
some real humor is essential and and that's the qualities i found in many of the people i work
with in front of the camera and behind the camera so if i look back over those seven films it's
a very fond memory the many wonderfully creative people i've worked with across all of them and
that sense of family we use that word quite a bit but it's important because that doesn't always
happen in our industry because it's a tough business and when we come together to make
something it's always i think more interesting than working apart making something so to speak
um and i think what's enduring about these movies i think they just they they become a safe place
to go to for lots of people they celebrate certain values loyalty love friendship um
empowering the outsider the person you always underestimate things that you know resonate
for a lot of people out in the real world and and they do it in this magical space so i think it's
sort of sort of yeah it's it's a beautiful thing to be part of stories that create a safe space
for some people when they when they go into the movie theater to watch them you know and
i'm very proud of that gosh there are so many themes that resonate throughout joe's work and in
this film it's about family the family you make as opposed to necessarily the family you bought into
it's about the courage of doing the right thing it's about love it's about
learn about sacrifice ultimately it's a you know for dumbledore it's about choosing
between the love he had and maybe still has and doing the right thing for the greater good
he and grindelwald have two different views um and it's about the choices which again is something
that really permeates all of joe's work it's about the choices you make and um it's for newt for
dumbledore for all the characters it's about making the right choices for them yes i think
i mean one of the exciting things certainly for the audience and certainly for us filmmakers
is being able to open up the magical world and to go to completely new areas which gave us hugely
interesting creative new environments to reproduce um i mean i'm not sure which countries i'm let's
say but we start off in china in in the forest and that's a very different area for us to go to
we then spend quite a lot of time in germany we see the german ministry of magic which
we've obviously in the past in new york we've seen the uk it and it's nice to open up and just see
a completely new ministry and then at the end we end up in bhutan uh again a completely new
different area and then we do go back as you said to familiar places we go back to hogwarts uh quite
a lot and we go back to hogsmeade and i think that for us as we've been on this journey for a while
is exciting to go back and see those places again um and um be familiar with those places that from
all the previous films well you know with this movie in particular um our previous um episode was
it was quite complicated plot-wise for all of us and it took us a while to figure that one out and
so with this story in particular we wanted it not only to be emotional but we wanted it to be
enjoyable and for it to be a real treat and for it to lean into the values of some of the earlier
potter films it had whimsy and charm humor and humanity we showed it to a little audience a few
weeks ago and there was this very young man in the audience i won't name him but he was a very young
he's a kid and uh everyone turned to him when the lights went up and said what do you think
you know because he's one of our first audience members other than the people here who've seen it
and he looked at me and he said i liked it it's really human
and i thought we'll take that we've made a film with all this extraordinary stuff in it
and the one thing he takes away from it is really human and that's a testament to the performances
and the story and everything is really human let's have that in the world we're living in
at the moment hope you enjoyed this behind the scenes look at secrets of dumbledore and you
learned some things from the filmmakers including how to be a family on set and everything like that
and coming from the harry potter franchise i'm sure he was able to bring that in so go
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