Random Ramblings of a Demented Doorknob.: HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1.
Amazing review that validates what I was writing about in my review but articulated better: also the mention of the soundtrack is one thing I missed but I also agree with!
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ReplyDeleteAlso, I read your review, as well. It's good, and of course I agree with you (except on the Half-Blood Prince dislike... I actually really like that one.)
yeh well I think 'let's just skip over the a
ReplyDeleteHalf Blood Prince element which gives the film its name' was madness and I had my issues with the acting (too much teenage emotional angst and long shadows when in the book it deals with it with some measure of wit and levity - Harry and Ginny kiss? embarrassing).
Also one thing you didn't pick up on your list was the worst inflicted wound of the whole franchise - how Yates dealth with Dumbledore's death! Why was Harry is some random undergroud floor when in the book he was paralysed and under the invisibility cloak? That was what made the scene so heartwrenching. In the film it was comic and lacked gravitas IMO.
That's my Half Blood Prince bashing over.
I realised I was actually really scathing of the Half-Blood Prince here before I formalised my reviewing:
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I didn't mention the floorboards/invisibility cloak think mostly because that didn't bother me at all. And I certainly wouldn't call it "the worst inflicted wound of the whole franchise." Not even close. To me, that's a "Harry's eyes are blue instead of green" complaint. In fact, I like how in the movie, he trusts Snape when he walks by, thinking he'll take care of it. But then Snape kills him. I actually think THAT is even more heartbreaking and tragic than the book, since Harry finally trusts Snape to be good, and that's when he seemingly does the worst.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the book hardly deals with the Half-Blood Prince book itself. It deals with it slightly more than the movie, but not by much. Mainly Hermione obsessing over who it could be.
Still disagree. I didn't get that Harry thought Snape would handle it at all, there was nothing in his demeanour to suggest so; throughout the book he is wary of him, why would that change in this one moment? Also, why think Snape could handle a whole troop of Death Eaters? It didn't hold weight with me AT all.
ReplyDeleteAnd I couldn't care less what colour eyes he has, I care what moments make character and this one a HUGE moment to build character and it didn't do that at all; it was flat and didn't even get across the slightest bit of emotion. There was a strange distance to it all and it lacked immediacy. I think it lost because it didn't put you in the fabric of the scene. To have Harry viewing it like some casual observer was pointless; 'oh death eaters in hogwarts, okay then, i'll stand here like a numpty' It completey took away Harry's 'fighting spirit' which was key for me.
I think they needed more references to finding out who this Half Blood Prince was simply because when the final reveal comes, its so blase, so brushed over, it lacks punch. My whole problem with Half Blood Prince is that it lacked emotional impact - everything was as colourless as the cinematography (even that nonsense scene where Hermione blubs over Ron and Lavender, when we all know she is stronger than that and in the book, she deals with it with a lot more fiestyness than bludding).
But at the end of the day, some things are going to be more important to some viewers, while others aren't *shrug*