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In debuting these two new photos, Director Bill Condon had this to offer about the film’s running time.
He then talked about the end of the movie, which brings this franchise to a close.
“The running time is one hour and 56 minutes, one minute shorter than the first one and as such, I think the shortest of all of them.”
Lastly, he spoke about the character of child vampire Renesmee (Mackenzie Foy), and how her powers are handled on screen.
“I feel like it’s the biggest musical number I’ve ever directed. It does feel, when you finally get the rhythm of that right, it makes it, I hope, very satisfying.”
“Her power, she touches somebody and she can show them what’s in her head and that you develop. There are some visual things, but a lot of that is done through Carter Burwell’s score, but then just recently in the mixing Dane A. Davis, who is a brilliant sound designer, he did The Matrix and so many other movies, he had her just speak and read poetry and things like that, and he’s turned it into hundreds of tracks. You don’t actually hear words but it becomes the chattering of her [voice], it’s a very abstract effect that I’ve never heard before. It’s really cool.”
