Showing posts with label Deathly Hallows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Deathly Hallows. Show all posts

Harry Potter and Half Blood Prince Review

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I watched this movie last night... well I was very excited to see this movie after the interesting trailers, but the movie was a big disappointment, atleast it will be for those who have read the book. No idea why J.K. Rowling could have approved this script.
Unlike the the book the movie failed to hold one's interest. There are several reasons, for instance the movie is focusing more on teenage love of Harry-Ginny and Hermione-Ron rather than crucial details which are missing from the movie and people who have not read the book were completely lost. Simultaneously, it was completely frustrating to people that had read the book (who then had to explain to the others what was happening, why, and what was missing from the film).

Let's look at some missing details, which are completely ignored in sixth part which have some importance in the next series

  • Firstly the movie don't start the way it is in the book and too dark and eerie. It start with the replacement of Prime Minister Fudge, with Rufus Scrimgeour and they discuss the collapsing of the London bridge mishap with the Prime Minister of Muggles, which is just mention in the book and not shown, maybe because to give a clear view to the people who haven't read the book about what the Death Eaters were upto against the Muggle world.
  • The kidnapping of Ollivander. This event does not happen in the books until after Harry escapes from Voldemort in book seven and Voldemort is trying to figure out what happened between their wands.
  • Destruction of the Burrow. This scene is a complete fabrication, and undermines several things in the book. First of all, Bellatrix and Greyback would not be together, as Bellatrix considers him unworthy of being in her presence.
  • There is no mention of Marvolo Gaunt, Voldemort's uncle Morfin nor his mother Mereope and his Muggle father Tom Riddle which play a crucial part in the following series.
  • No mention of how Dumbledore got the ring which is a Horocrux. Dumbledore and Harry discuss this issue in depth, looking at the types of objects Riddle has stolen before, along with Dumbledore's guess about Nagini being a horcrux. The ring is left essentially unexplained (and even appears to be undamaged) in the movie. The stone in the movie's ring is also inexplicably a faceted gemstone without visible carvings, instead of a flat rock with the sign of the deathly hallows carved onto it.
  • Harry inherits 12 Grimmauld Place and Kreacher. This scene is cut entirely, and Kreacher is not mentioned. Kreacher and Dobby are supposed to tail Malfoy to find out where he is going when Harry can't locate him on the Marauder's Map.
  • Vanishing Cabinet. Harry has no idea in the book what Malfoy is actually up to until after the fact. He did not see what object Malfoy was looking at, did not tell Mr. Weasley about it, and does not have it put together until Malfoy explains it at the top of the tower. The movie made it very obvious that Malfoy's mission for the year was to kill Dumbledore, while the book tried to keep Malfoy's mission hidden from everyone but Dumbledore.
  • No funeral and white tomb? This movie does show the funeral and tomb scene. Dumbledore's tomb is important in book seven.

Harry Potter and Half Blood Prince breaks midnight ticket sales record

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"Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince" conjured up $22.2 million in midnight ticket sales at 3,003 locations (while “Revenge of the Fallen” made $16 million) according to Warner Bros., putting the popular boy-wizard movie on track for a record-breaking debut today and through the weekend.
The sixth "Potter" film, which cost more than $400 million to make, market and release worldwide, shattered the $18.5-million-record midnight earnings of last year's Batman blockbuster "The Dark Knight," also produced and distributed by Warner Bros.

Evening shows aren't selling quite as well, meaning "Harry Potter" may just miss out on surpassing "Transformers."
According to two people who have followed box office returns all day, ticket sales for night time shows on the east coast are a bit slower than matinees. As a result, both predicted that "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" will gross $57 million or $58 million for the day. It now has only a small chance, they said, of breaking the $62 million "Revenge of the Fallen" record.

Source[Los Angeles Times]

Check out this blonde!

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It's our very own Mr. Potter! A wig-wearing Daniel Radcliffe – whose Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince hits theaters Wednesday (July 15th) - takes a walk on the blonde side as he plays dress-up during his visit Thursday to MTV's It's On with Alexa Chung in New York City.

People
reported that the cast of Harry Potter was in the Big Apple Thursday night for the premiere of the latest installment in J.K. Rowling's popular anthology, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
The crew is currently said to be filming for seventh part Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows in New York City.



Emma Watson buys $3 million house, moves in with her bf Jay Barrymore

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Emma Watson,19, after her recent wardrobe malfunction where she flashed her underwear and much hyped career plans about attending college in U.S, is in news again!
This time Harry Potter star, Hermione Granger have moved in with her "posh banker" boyfriend, Jay Barrymore, into her $3 million North London townhouse, according to the British media.

The source added: “Despite the fame, she’s really got her head screwed on. After consulting with several property experts, as well as her family and friends, she’s decided to invest in her own place.

It is the first sign yet that the couple are ready to go public with their romance, 16 months after initially getting together.

She is currently in New York filming the seventh and final Harry Potter movie. Worth an estimated £10.5million from the phenomenally successful HP franchise, she is the first of the gang to buy her own pad.

Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows plans revealed

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We know that it is very early to talk about seventh part of Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows, as the sixth part, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is yet to be released, but in a press conference, director David Yates and stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson offered up some tidbits about where they're headed with the last two films.

Even though most of you have already read Deathly Hallows, you must be having keen interest about the part where Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny as adults, seeing their own children off on the Hogwarts Express.

"We will be delivering that at the end of Part 7, Part 2," Yates promised. "Were looking at various options of how we do it."

While Yates said they probably won't be using "Benjamin Button" technology, producer David Heyman promised that Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe would be playing their older selves, not some stand-in adult actors. "We may use some of the [Benjamin Button] techniques," Heyman said, maybe as a hedge in case David Fincher comes a calling. "We're still in the exploratory stage."

Well there's another thing in which Harry Potter fan's are looking forward to-- Ron and Hermione's big kiss?
Grint and Watson admitted sheepishly that they filmed the scene a few weeks ago, and did everything they could to get it over with as quickly as possible.
Grint confesses. "It's quite a strange thing to think about doing, We both felt the pressure. It was like kissing my own sister"

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