#HARRY POTTER HALF BLOOD PRINCE MOVIE#

#HARRY POTTER HALF BLOOD PRINCE MOVIE#

ThatвЂ™s the image weвЂ™ll remember best until HP7 Part One arrives, ETA November, 2010. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: The movie brings more complexity into the franchise with the introduction of the Horcrux. The standout achievement in the film is knockout spectacle, courtesy of cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel and production designer Stuart Craig, with one climactic sequence amid flames giving Dumbledore his Moses parting the Red Sea moment. Two new additons, however, in Hero Fiennes Tiffin (RalphвЂ™s nephew) and Frank Dillane (StephenвЂ™s son) prove apples donвЂ™t fall far from the tree by being appropriately unnerving as Tom Riddle (who will, of course, grow up to become Voldemort) at age 11 and 16 respectively in key flashbacks. The renowned elder thespians, apart from Gambon, Broadbent and Rickman, barely feature, with the emphasis on the youngsters вЂ“ and while the leads have grown with their characters some of the teens are, frankly, dull and graceless. Not only that, theres no spell described in the books that can actually kill them (a Patronus just repels them) and Word of God says theyre immortal. The acting is once again wildly variable. During Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows, theres an army of Dementors 'breeding' all over Britain and no one controlling them. He was waiting for a call from the President of a far distant country, and between wondering when. It was nearing midnight and the Prime Minister was sitting alone in his office, reading a long memo that was slipping through his brain without leaving the slightest trace of meaning behind. Do we really need another game of Quidditch to lighten the mood, when a destiny of doom and gloom is supposed to be closing in? Given the much-trailered destruction in London that opens the film, it seems odd that the consequences of that or anything else in the outside world donвЂ™t rate a mention. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. But major plot points slip by (weвЂ™re still wondering what a horcrux is exactly!), big doings seem rushed and more everyday goings on extended. The Half-Blood Prince reverts to overlength (screenwriter Steve Kloves has returned to duty), but still wrestles with blending the impending doom side of things (manifestations of which were a tad distressing to our smaller audience consultants) with the humour, heartache and angst of adolescent amours essential to what is, after all, a coming of age chronicle. The middle films picked up the pace with freer adaptation as developments grew darker. The earliest films sprawled though every chapter of the source novels, fearful of leaving anything out and enthusiastic in realizing every bit of whimsy in the wizardy world of Hogwarts.

The artistic challenge has always been telling a story that stands up whether or not one is au fait with the J.

Ominously, the master for Defense Against the Dark Arts (a position that bodes ill each and every school year) is now Alan RickmanвЂ™s inscrutable don Severus Snape, whose withering way with one-liners and inexhaustible creepiness continue to be a highlight of the whole shebang. His area of expertise is Potions, which creates opportunities for several fiascos вЂ“ fun to potentially fatal вЂ“ involving concoctions for love, luck and painful death. As befits the Hogwarts tradition of dodgy instructors, another new eccentric professor is engaged: Jim BroadbentвЂ™s Horace Slughorn. Now Dumbledore is intent on extra private life-lessons for Harry, whose assistance is required to sleuth out a key secret from VoldemortвЂ™s youth as Tom Riddle. So, for those not quite up to speed, Previously on Harry Potter: Sirius died, Lucius Malfoy was packed off to Azkaban and a revitalized Voldemort continues lurking (but not in this picture). But even a protracted introductory bit of back-story chitchat between Daniel RadcliffeвЂ™s boy wizard and his mentor, Michael GambonвЂ™s Professor Dumbledore, doesnвЂ™t refresh the memory for mere Muggles. The decision of Warner Bros to forego its pre-Christmas release makes financial sense for their 2009 accounting, and the millions of Potterites are without doubt good to go. Where the devil is Basil Exposition when you need him? It seems so long ago вЂ“ exactly two years in fact вЂ“ since we left Harry Potter and friends, and anyone not of Mastermind standard on all things Pottery can be forgiven for not being sure where we got to.

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