When director Chris Columbus talked about the successes of Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint eight years after the first Harry Potter movie, he told the L.A. Times he was just impressed they could “get through an entire scene in one shot.”
“I know that sounds funny,” he said, “but in the old days … and in that first picture in particular, it’s filled with cuts because they couldn’t really get beyond the first line without either looking into the camera, laughing or looking at the lights.”
Going back about 10 years earlier, novelist Ian McEwan wrote The Good Son
