Another teaser analysis (with photos)

[Carol]

Rotten Tomatoes has posted an analysis of the teaser, not as detailed
as the one I linked to before, but this one has stills from the teaser
that you might want to download:

http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/harry_potter_and_the_half_blood_prince/news/1745198/rts_trailer_analysis_harry_potter_and_the_half_blood_prince

If that URL doesn't link, try this:

http://tinyurl.com/5dqleb

The analysis is slightly flawed, IMO. For example, the writer seems to
accept the implication of the teaser that the "most important" memory
is that of Tom in the orphanage whereas we know from the book that the
most important memory is Slughorn's. Either the movie has it wrong (in
which case, why bother to cast Slughorn and a teenage Voldemort?) or
the teaser has misleadingly conflated two different Pensieve scenes
(easy to do with a Dumbledore who seldom or never changes his
costume). Also, the analysis has mistakenly labeled the orphanage
scene as taking place in fifties London when it actually takes place
in 1938, a much more depressing era in every sense of the word.

I've noticed, too, that many reviewers of the trailer pick up a
statement by the Herald Sun that the movie is "all about Voldemort."
Wrong. Evidently, the reviewers think that child!Tom will have more
than one scene and that Voldemort *directly* wreaked the havoc created
in the background scenes (the impression created by Tom's words and
the glimpse of the adult Voldemort in the teaser). They seem unaware
of the raging hormones and love potions and the much more important
Draco/Snape subplot (again, only indirectly about Voldemort), not to
mention the HBP's Potions book and Quidditch. Only the Pensieve scenes
are "all about Voldemort," who doesn't even appear in his current form
in the book though, of course, he's a sinister presence in the
background. I wonder if those reviewers mistakenly think that
Voldemort is the Half-Blood Prince.

Carol, who thinks that reviewers should know by now that teasers
seldom give away the main plot and are only intended to entice the reader