tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942543806634394395.post790893567164346779..comments2023-03-13T06:10:18.104-07:00Comments on Deaf Ears Madness: Harry Potter and the moviesPawel Kuczynskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05560375946783948879noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942543806634394395.post-31294099640362602442010-12-26T18:22:23.666-08:002010-12-26T18:22:23.666-08:00Oh come on, new Harry isn't that bad :) It was...Oh come on, new Harry isn't that bad :) It was pretty well-made, I even enjoyed it on some level and if I had to put on a review of it - it would be a positive one. The problem is that so much of Rowling's rich literary world has been lost. Having been confronted with its incredible vastness and then seeing what Mr. Yates gracefully brought on screen one cannot help but feel existential pain inside :) The characters and the screenplay are surprisingly lifeless. The humor, as you said is lame and, by the way, completely unnecesarry and even if it was it should've been used in the right moments - it's not. And because of it large part of the ominous atmosphere from the last volume of Rowling's series has been misguided and lost. David Yates, who took the director's helm since part 5 has disappointed. Again. And again with the same mistakes. What a heck.<br />BUT. The cinematography is beautiful, action scenes are perfectly staged, supporting performances are intruiging and there are three moments that succeed over the movie itself - opening shot of Hermione wiping out her parents' memory, her and Harry's dance in the tent (only, as far as I noticed, really meaningful and right deviation from the literary source) and the stunning animated sequence illustrating the Story Of Three Brothers read by Hermione. In other words, the film defends itself with details.<br />Nevertheless, it's just painful to see what Hollywood producers, if they're not the right ones, can do with a beautiful source material like this and turn it into a pseudo-dark, only-surface-lickening excuse for a fantasy drama. And the vision of what distuinguished directors such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Alfonso Cuaron (who made the third, and probably best of HP films), Steven Spielberg or even Polanski could do with this material still mocks me at nights.<br />Best regards to you, I still hope we can put together a movie someday :)Rodianoreply@blogger.com