Wednesday, 16 March 2011

Most powerful/ beautiful scene of Harry Potter movies - deleted: why?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYnrmmyoW1Y&feature=related

This takes place shortly before Harry and Dumbledore return to Hogwarts from seeking the Horcrux in a sea cave - it is the prelude to the invasion by Death Eaters.

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To me this is (by a margin) the best scene in any of the Harry Potter movies (so far); in particular for the marvellously powerful yet understated acting of Alan Rickman as Snape. If you know the back-story you will recognize that this is first-rate stuff.

Yet it ended on the cutting room floor; only being released as a cut-scene 'extra' in the 2 volume DVD.

Why?

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I sometimes wonder about the competence of movie editors.

Particularly as the HBP movie was padded-out with dull 'action' sequences; and inexplicably, amazingly, failed to include the vital piece of information as to why Snape had called himself The Half Blood Prince - thereby failing to explain the movie's title.

Ho hum... 

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7 comments:

  1. The Crow16 March 2011 at 23:54

    Bruce Charlton watches Harry Potter movies???
    Not the Bruce Charlton, surely ?
    Nice to know Conservatives are not all psychotic, jingoistic, baby-eating trolls.
    I feel much better now.

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  2. The Crow16 March 2011 at 23:56

    Oh this is too good to ignore...
    The word verification for the post was: "retch" :)

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  3. Bruce Charlton17 March 2011 at 11:57

    @The Crow - I am a family man - nuff said!

    But if you search 'potter' on this blog you will see several postings on the theme. Thanks to my daughter, I am a Harry convert!

    But the HP books are *much* better than the movies - a different level altogether.

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  4. The Crow17 March 2011 at 18:42

    Agreed. My wife used to read the books to me, but we were turned right off by the movies.
    I see you as a sort of political Professor Lupin :)
    There are worse things to be :)

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  5. Bruce Charlton17 March 2011 at 19:04

    Re: Lupin - I choose to take that as a compliment!

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  6. The Crow17 March 2011 at 20:05

    Oh yes. Compliments are free.
    Defense Against The Dark Arts.
    Somebody has to do it.

    Lupin had it right:
    Look after yourself, and the world is looked after.
    Become sane, and the world is a saner place.

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  7. Daybreaker25 March 2011 at 18:53

    Thanks for calling attention to that. It's beautiful. I think it would have strengthened the whole series.

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