"Oh, my legs are turning." It seems to me that I will fall or fall or somlei. It was this and similar phrases that met me this morning with my favorite cinema, or rather, its visitors, most of whom are overexcited girls, my own year olds, trying to buy tickets for the premiere.
Well, congratulations to Warner Bros., one thing they did absolutely right, an extra year of waiting has borne terrible fruit and a huge box office. The only thing I can add about this is that listen to the bosses of our native KinoPoisk and move the premiere to the same December 23, so enthusiastic fainting in the lobby of cinemas would definitely not be avoided.
Hand on heart, I will say that I have already leveled films with books in previous reviews, so at the moment I do not have the desire to do the same with the Half-Blood Prince.
But there's one "but," too big for me to keep quiet. While I’m calm and skeptical about most of the Harry Potter books, I can’t deny the fact that they’re smart. That is, they are as complete in their events as in their explanations, as it is necessary for the reader.
Therefore, I am very confused, the moments of the so-called "scarlet", which by the sixth film became more frequent exponentially. I seem to have too much respect for these seven books, as it seems to me that all the moments that Stephen Kloves himself made up were somewhat “out of this world.”
As for the processing of book material, then the screenwriter steered with greater success. While this can be safely explained, the material in this book is not as large as that of the Order of the Phoenix, so it begs a conclusion. It was this fact that saved the tape from the complete illogicality and incomprehensibility of the twin film. So the first hour, the viewer can safely enjoy a more or less coherent plot, which inexorably disappears by an hour and a half, after which the viewer can just as calmly observe the skill of David Yates in separate scenes.
Speaking of director. This is exactly the “hang” in the film crew, which, it seems, has not moved from the level of the “Order of the Phoenix”. Take at least his second attempt to film the kiss of the main character, which failed, as for me, at most a little less than the first.
Fortunately, there are only a few new locations in this film, and it was extremely difficult for me to spoil them. The cave was quite atmospheric for a single video, beautiful, somewhat surreal and very gloomy. But the tower of Astronomy, so prominent in the media, to be honest, did not impress, in my opinion, another unremarkable part of Hogwarts, which is the main word in terms of semantic load.
Another important one, but as I thought, the persecuted part of the film, special effects. Yes, yes, at the beginning of the viewing it seems that Yates saves money for important historical places. In any case, in one of the first scenes, when a Muggle girl says that she thought the picture in the newspaper was moving, I had a clear idea in my head. But do not despair, they, the pictures in the newspaper, still move, but only when the camera shoots them close-up. All the rest of the time, nothing happens to them, in fact, as with the portraits on the walls of the castle.
However, this erroneous opinion about saving disappears as soon as you know what the money is really going for. The large-scale fall of the London bridge against the background of the famous “cucumber” gives the viewer a couple of seconds to enjoy his involvement let the “left” image in the action in the film, in itself is a meaningless lyrical retreat. So did the scene I dubbed "The Fire at Nora." Enchanting, beautiful, and Bellatrice got more screen time, that’s just why?
Of course, in the screensaver of the studio, the viewer invariably meets the main, “Harripotter theme”. But as they say, the further into the forest... As for me, there was a kind of popsy, something like that, sometimes youthful, sometimes beaten. The only plus of music is that if you remove your skepticism, it almost perfectly fits the picture.
The actors, inexplicably (each for his level) pleased. Daniel Radcliffe trained on cats for good reason, now he has at least some variety on his face. Perhaps it was unpleasant to look from this trio except at Grint. But here's who really pleased, it's Tom Felton, decent progress, both for the role and for the actor.
But even this all “darks and pales” before I suddenly realized that Gambon, for all his dissimilarity, has an insignificant professionalism, which gave him a decent performance of Dumbledore even in the scene in the cave. I think it’s also nice to think of Jim Broadbent, who immediately seemed like a good candidate, and I’m glad I didn’t make a mistake. Who else is worth noting is Helena Bonham Carter, whose role was qualitatively promoted to the leading position for all 2.5 hours. Of course, this is not the character with whom every viewer who has read the book is familiar, but, in his own way, "bonnemkarteroski", attractive. I'm afraid I won't be mistaken if I call the other actors furniture.
Well, now I’m probably ready to voice what plunged me into a fit of quiet rage and almost made me cry at the top of my voice in the last minutes of the film.
Maybe I don’t understand something, but for 5 years, the main driver of me to watch the next Harry Potter was the wonderful Alan Rickman. This actor in his eighth year never tires of surprising me with his amazing penetration into the depths of the role, cold charm and perfect appearance with the character. While still reading the sixth book, I imagined the chic pictures of the “star hour” of the former professor of potions, knowing the vast possibilities of Alan dear to me. Oh, how cruelly I was put in place by his complete absence as an actor!
Restraining your emotions, you can draw a conclusion, as always, ambiguous. The quality of the footage, fortunately, began to rise, but the film, and even more, the next “Harry Potter”, it will not work. In their aspirations to move away from the original literary foundations, to do something authorial, the creators have long made a fatal mistake in their miscalculations, and it finally began to simply blatantly bulge out of all the poor-quality patched cracks.
They killed the unique, magical atmosphere of history, without which the existence of a world in which such a boy named Harry Potter could live is unthinkable. Unfortunately, this fact cannot be refuted by either expensive spectacular episodes of “complex magic” or boring (!) observation of Quidditch. And especially not the huge length of the film, in which after a little less than an hour, children begin to play with drunk bottles of Coca-Cola and pop-corn buds, asking to go out or just bellowing.
Will it be Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows? Definitely. Is it Harry Potter? Of course, in the first three parts.
P. S. Looking back on the previous part, I understand. Sometimes it’s hard to be right!
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