It’s easy to roll your eyes and groan about Hollywood greed whenever a studio announces that it has to, just has to, split up into multiple parts one of the books being adapted for one of its gazillion-dollar franchises: When the seventh Harry Potter book becomes the seventh and eighth Harry Potter movies; when the Twilight trilogy magically acquires a fourth installment; when Peter Jackson releases (you know it’s coming) The Hobbit: Part 4: Three Hours Wasted Smoking Pipe-Weed with Gandalf.
But sometimes, studio greed can serve the cause of art. The mandate to fill more screen time can be a permission slip to linger over elements of a story that normally wouldn’t find a place in a big-screen treatment, to do something a little more interesting and personal amid all the action set pieces.
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