Sorry for the Rant - PU to DH2

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 191273

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lkotur" <lkotur at ...> wrote:

Larry:
> Saw DH2 again just to see if my first impression was influenced by it being the final chapter.  Nope!  Again the movie was great to the point of Harry falling out of Hagrid's arms to reveal he was still alive. The writers and director really misses the suspense and awe that JKR put into the finish.  When Harry goes "invisible" there is a wave of "oh crap" that goes through the Death Eater ranks and Voldemort begins to get a bit agitated.  His spells no longer have any "staying power", the defenders of Hogwarts appear to be receiving help from an unknown source (Harry under the invisibility cloak) and the Death Eater ranks begin to lose numbers.  Voldemort continues to fight even after all the horcruxes are destroyed and in the great room, Harry reveals himself.  In the book I got the impression that Voldemort initially crapped his pants at seeing that d***** boy who just won't die! What's up with that. Now Harry is facing the wizard that has tried to kill him - how may times? Now Harry knew he was not going to be the one to die and armed with that knowledge, he tried to help the wizard who wanted him dead.  That dialogue between Harry and Tom Riddle would have been electric in the movie.  I believe that the director made a massive mistake by thinking that those scenes would not work.  Too bad. I also would have loved to see the headmaster portraits applauding Harry.

Geoff:
As something of a sophisticated "me too", this was the view I took in my post
191019 when I started the thread "MOVIE: A comparison". One of the remarks 
I made there was:

"Before I went, I had read a dozen or so reviews, seen about every trailer
I could get my hands on, plus a British ITV1 programme "Behind the
Scenes of Deathly Hallows Part 2". Having looked at all this, I went with
a sense of foreboding and trepidation that what I called in a recent post
the "David Yates Syndrome" might appear – in that the story would be
altered and spurious scenes inserted. "

And that Is what I felt happened. the final scene made me think of the 
sort of apocalyptic ending which so often happens in modern films, shoot 
outs, big special effects scenes, noise, death and destruction.

Well, we had that leading up to the finale. But in the book, the emphasis 
is on the sudden transition from  the battle to the dead quiet as our two 
protagonists circle round. The watchers are quiet; Harry ramming home 
the point with a few well-chosen words and then the sudden and short-
lived flare of spells.

I can only agree with you Larry; that would have been electric. Well, 
we can always turn off the DVD at this point and read the last bit from 
the book, can't we.?
:-))







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> Do you think Warner Brothers could do a do-over re-shoot? Too Bad.