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August 14th 2011 23:08
So here we are: the end of an era!
How old were you, when ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ hit your cinemas? I was 21 years old. I had somehow missed the early hysteria about the books. A friend of mine at work was raving about just having read the third instalment. Of a children’s book series. I don’t recall what I was reading back then, but it wasn’t childrens’ books.
Not one to follow mass media hysteria, I nevertheless let myself be persuaded to buy the first Potter book. And I loved it! Within days, I ate the second and third books as well. And like a proper Potter-addict, I couldn’t wait for the fourth book to be released- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I never quite went as mad as queuing outside book stores at midnight but I thought about it....
I did, however, queue at the cinema to see the first film. I was living in a sleepy little seaside town on the Sussex coast at the time and I dragged my boyfriend along to the event. (after all, he made me watch all three of the re-released Star Wars movies!) And let me just, very briefly, quote something I found on the all-knowing internet:
As of 2008, the overall box office revenue generated by the six Star Wars films has totalled approximately $4.41 billion,[1] making it the third-highest-grossing film series,[2] behind only the Harry Potter and James Bond films.
I have never had to queue since to see a Potter film. My journey through Hogwarts started in a cinema in West Sussex; it came through New South Wales, Royal Berkshire and, yesterday, ended in West Sussex.
What can I say....Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part2..... We all knew it would end here. J.K. Rowling told the entire story in 7 books. Warner Brothers had no choice but to wrap the whole thing up in 8 films. I like that. I am not a fan of these harebrain schemes where someone thinks- Oh, hang on, there’s more money to be made here!
No, not with Harry Potter. Not unless you are producing a film which is set in the years Harry was even born. What would you call that? ‘Lily and James and the Sex they had to make Harry’? Think carefully about that, Warner Bros. My gut instinct says No.
You couldn’t really qualify bastardising the Potter series. We have all known that we were headed for the final instalment. Hell, we saw ‘Final movie part 1’ not long ago....
The producers/ directors/ J.K. Rowling/ the film makers really went to town on this one....
It is war. And it is tears galore. (or maybe that’s just me, as I seem to be getting more sentimental every day).
So this one really is war. No niceties about groups forming to ply badminton or Orders to fight the Dark Arts. There are no surprises anymore, about who’s good, who’s bad and who’s downright evil. (Surely, even if you’ve never read the books, you knew Snape was a goodie?)
And this is what made Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 so utterly charming-there were no surprises left, no ‘Oh my God, I never knew that!’ moments. This one was just tying together all the strands, giving the series a mighty finale by blowing everything up we’ve come to love over the last 10 years. Killing characters that we have known to be on our side in the fight against You Know Who.
This movie (as dictated by the books) kills off all our mates, the ones that survived until part 8, anyway.
But then that’s not the director’s fault. David Yates beautifully managed to include footage from the first ever Potter film. And there we have three cute kids, learning magic. Now, in The Deathly Hollows Part 2, we have Ron and Harry stripping off to reveal their upper bodies.....unnecessary, in my opinion. Yes, we have been there to watch the Hogwarts students grow up, but that doesn’t mean we are thinking of them as sexual objects. (Or maybe I am in the wrong age group?)
Anyroad, it is an amazing film! Absolutely stunning stuff, it had me crying silently a number of times. Partly because I have been there from the very beginning and mostly because Potter number 8 draws out all the strings. You simply must go and see it, or else miss out on a piece of cinematic history.
Farewell, once and for all to Harry, Ginny and Albus Severus Potter........Fish on Film will love you forever! xx
How old were you, when ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ hit your cinemas? I was 21 years old. I had somehow missed the early hysteria about the books. A friend of mine at work was raving about just having read the third instalment. Of a children’s book series. I don’t recall what I was reading back then, but it wasn’t childrens’ books.
Not one to follow mass media hysteria, I nevertheless let myself be persuaded to buy the first Potter book. And I loved it! Within days, I ate the second and third books as well. And like a proper Potter-addict, I couldn’t wait for the fourth book to be released- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I never quite went as mad as queuing outside book stores at midnight but I thought about it....
I did, however, queue at the cinema to see the first film. I was living in a sleepy little seaside town on the Sussex coast at the time and I dragged my boyfriend along to the event. (after all, he made me watch all three of the re-released Star Wars movies!) And let me just, very briefly, quote something I found on the all-knowing internet:
As of 2008, the overall box office revenue generated by the six Star Wars films has totalled approximately $4.41 billion,[1] making it the third-highest-grossing film series,[2] behind only the Harry Potter and James Bond films.
I have never had to queue since to see a Potter film. My journey through Hogwarts started in a cinema in West Sussex; it came through New South Wales, Royal Berkshire and, yesterday, ended in West Sussex.
What can I say....Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part2..... We all knew it would end here. J.K. Rowling told the entire story in 7 books. Warner Brothers had no choice but to wrap the whole thing up in 8 films. I like that. I am not a fan of these harebrain schemes where someone thinks- Oh, hang on, there’s more money to be made here!
You couldn’t really qualify bastardising the Potter series. We have all known that we were headed for the final instalment. Hell, we saw ‘Final movie part 1’ not long ago....
The producers/ directors/ J.K. Rowling/ the film makers really went to town on this one....
It is war. And it is tears galore. (or maybe that’s just me, as I seem to be getting more sentimental every day).
So this one really is war. No niceties about groups forming to ply badminton or Orders to fight the Dark Arts. There are no surprises anymore, about who’s good, who’s bad and who’s downright evil. (Surely, even if you’ve never read the books, you knew Snape was a goodie?)
And this is what made Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 so utterly charming-there were no surprises left, no ‘Oh my God, I never knew that!’ moments. This one was just tying together all the strands, giving the series a mighty finale by blowing everything up we’ve come to love over the last 10 years. Killing characters that we have known to be on our side in the fight against You Know Who.
This movie (as dictated by the books) kills off all our mates, the ones that survived until part 8, anyway.
But then that’s not the director’s fault. David Yates beautifully managed to include footage from the first ever Potter film. And there we have three cute kids, learning magic. Now, in The Deathly Hollows Part 2, we have Ron and Harry stripping off to reveal their upper bodies.....unnecessary, in my opinion. Yes, we have been there to watch the Hogwarts students grow up, but that doesn’t mean we are thinking of them as sexual objects. (Or maybe I am in the wrong age group?)
Anyroad, it is an amazing film! Absolutely stunning stuff, it had me crying silently a number of times. Partly because I have been there from the very beginning and mostly because Potter number 8 draws out all the strings. You simply must go and see it, or else miss out on a piece of cinematic history.
Farewell, once and for all to Harry, Ginny and Albus Severus Potter........Fish on Film will love you forever! xx
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