[HPFGU-Movie] Re: My Review of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

[Child Of Midian]

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Behalf Of montavilla47
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 4:31 PM
To: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HPFGU-Movie] Re: My Review of Harry Potter and the Half Blood
Prince

 


Montavilla47:
The problem of Slughorn watching stupidly as Ron is dying is a holdover from
the book. He was no more helpful then. 

Harry finding the bezoar is a logical problem in the film, since we haven't 
heard about that trick since PS/SS, and we don't have Harry reading that 
fun, snarky little tip in the Potions book. And, it takes him forever to
find
it, unlike in the book, when he was able to go straight to it.

Plus, we then get one of those scenes where other actors have to *tell*
us what happened. It reminds me of that clumsy moment in PS/SS when
we learn that Harry made the Quidditch team from Nearly Headless Nick.



md:

In the book we have the narrators guidance, and we KNOW that Harry knows to
look for the beazor, in the film we do not have these things so the scene
makes no sense. We know Harry is on the Quidditch team because McGonagall
Marches him over to Wood and announces she's found him a seeker, hardly from
Nearly Headless Nick.

 


md:
> Why is
> there no defenses at the Weasely house if they are in dire danger, why no
> Order members standing guard, no spells around the property and why do the
> Death Eaters attack? (hint, it's not in the book at all!!! so there's no
> answer.) Why does Dumbledore take Harry to the Burrow at the beginning of
> the film (it makes sense in the book, here, no reason.) 

Montavilla47:
What puzzles me is that Dumbledore sort of drops him off in the middle of
a marsh a good distance away from the Burrow--and doesn't bother to tell
anyone that Harry is going to show up. Leaving the Chosen One vulnerable 
to any random attack by DEs.

Also, later on, the Trio are allowed to wander into the burned-out wand 
shop without even Hagrid's lackluster guarding or use of the invisibility 
cloak.



md:

I love that, it makes no sense whatsoever.

 

Montavilla47:
In the film, Harry has no reason *not* to take Snape's orders. There's
hardly
any tension between the two of them, and the key conflict for Harry (Snape 
telling Voldemort the prophecy) is never revealed.



md:

Harry and Snape had "tension" since the first film, that doesn't have to be
new to the movie. Also, Harry heard Snape and Draco, he knows of the
unbreakable vow, he knows Snape must stand by Draco, so yes, he has TONS of
reasons not to trust or listen to snape.

I didn't feel that Dumbledore *needed* help at that point, either. So, if 
he didn't want Snape to kill him, he'd have snapped his fingers or called 
Fawkes or something. He didn't seem weak, as he had in the book, and
which made Snape's action seem all the more terrible.

md:

It wasn't a point of needing help. In the book Dumbledore knew Harry would
only take his orders so far, Dumbledore knew Harry would not let Snape kill
him and would, the minute he was dead, run out and confront as many
death-eaters as stood before him. Why not film the scene that way:

Dumbledore:

Harry, quick, your cloak!

/petrifies Harry/

Then it all makes perfect sense, Harry has to watch, can't do a thing about
it and we all get, book-readers or not, the Dumbledore is protecting. 


md

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