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Yesterday, I finally watched the new Harry Potter movie.
I feel rather frustrated by this movie. Halfblood Prince is my favorite HP book - no doubt due to the fact that one plot line focuses on Draco Malfoy and another on Snape, my two favorite characters in the HP universe.
The movie does a great job when it comes to the visuals, e.g. the look of the Burrow, the Quidditch rehearsal, the pensieve scenes, Aragog's funeral. (Although I think they went over the top with the "bleached look".) Some scenes are caught perfectly, but overall they just lose one of the major plot lines of the book...
To me it feels as if the screenwriter/director didn't get a core theme of the book, i.e. Harry has to learn to look behind the surface.
Well, movie 5 also suffered from a similar problem. Here I thought a large point of the book was that Harry had to learn that father figures can make mistakes (e.g. his own father, Sirius and Remus reg. his treatment of Snape) and that he himself can make mistakes and still go on living (Sirius' death). But both of these themes were mostly lost, Sirius comes across as perfectly heroic and Harry never seems to doubt any of his father figures.
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I feel rather frustrated by this movie. Halfblood Prince is my favorite HP book - no doubt due to the fact that one plot line focuses on Draco Malfoy and another on Snape, my two favorite characters in the HP universe.
The movie does a great job when it comes to the visuals, e.g. the look of the Burrow, the Quidditch rehearsal, the pensieve scenes, Aragog's funeral. (Although I think they went over the top with the "bleached look".) Some scenes are caught perfectly, but overall they just lose one of the major plot lines of the book...
To me it feels as if the screenwriter/director didn't get a core theme of the book, i.e. Harry has to learn to look behind the surface.
Well, movie 5 also suffered from a similar problem. Here I thought a large point of the book was that Harry had to learn that father figures can make mistakes (e.g. his own father, Sirius and Remus reg. his treatment of Snape) and that he himself can make mistakes and still go on living (Sirius' death). But both of these themes were mostly lost, Sirius comes across as perfectly heroic and Harry never seems to doubt any of his father figures.
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