I walked from the air-conditioned theater back to the sunny and hot summer outside, finally letting my head follow my body back to this world without magic, I suddenly thought that the Harry Potter series is not also an RPG. What.
Study, take risks, solve puzzles, fight, etc. etc. Aunt Rowling recorded the experiences of the boy and his friends in the world she created, and she had these seven books. The movie is very much like we are playing a game, but the most difficult part of this game is that it has a time limit. The main storyline must be cleared to clear the level, but the side storyline is reluctant to abandon it. This situation is really painful like a hundred scratches, and if you accidentally pick the wrong sideline, it is possible that the fun of the game will be less at once. A lot.
Unfortunately, this happened to the Half-Blood Prince.
Of course, the script of this movie is inherently inadequate. The Half-Blood Prince is different from the five previous Harry Potter books: the previous five books are somewhat fragmented on the surface; however, the main story of the Half-Blood Prince—discovering Voldemort’s past and destroying the Horcrux— -It is directly connected to the Deathly Hallows, in fact, it can be combined into one book. This makes the Half-Blood Prince a very important book in the series that has a link between the past and the next. It also makes the story of the whole book smooth and stable, except for the period from the locket to the death of Dumbledore, it can be said that there is no climax. It can be said-the real climax of Aunt Rowling is all hoping to explode in the Deathly Hallows.
The fetus is inherently deficient, and the born baby is naturally deformed. After the 150-minute movie, it is as gentle as a novel. Without the Desiree family, without Hedwig, without the Order of the Phoenix, Quidditch is nothing new, and the whole story is cut to pieces. The two sets of love triangles, the passages of love, jealousy, and jealousy are considered to be interesting, but these love-talking passages occupy too much time in the movie, and it is almost suspicious whether it is Harry Potter or Twilight. City of Light. However, some passages are well adapted, and the jokes are just right in the depressive movie, and the lily petals given to Harry by Slughorn after the funeral of Aragok. The story of the fish turned into is no less sensational than Dumbledore's Hogwarts teachers and students after his death lit the tip of his wand to mourn him. The contrast between these passages is so great, as if two people wrote a script separately and then rubbed it together. However, considering the fact that the scripts of Star Trek 11 and Transformers 2 are written by the same two people, but the gap is huge, there is nothing to be relieved.
If you put aside the bad story, the Half-Blood Prince is still very good in other aspects, which may be one of the reasons why it can still maintain a high freshness of more than 80% on Rotten Tomatoes. David Yates made some trouble in the adaptation of the script, but he painted the tone that the half-blood prince should have. The whole movie is full of darkness, coldness and sadness, and the air-conditioning in the cinema is full of power. I was getting goose bumps all over when I saw the cold behind. Yates, who is good at thrillers, is also handy when he grabs the adventure and suspense passages. The passage in the cave where he took the locket Horcrux made countless people in the cinema scream. From the change of directors, we can also get a glimpse of the continuous changes in the style of the Harry Potter series, from Chris Columbus, Alfonso Cuaron, Mike Newell to David Yates, one of them gradually separated The category of children's films, the increasingly adult and dark Harry Potter series of films are presented before our eyes. Considering the performance in the Order of the Phoenix and the Half-Blood Prince, I believe we can look forward to David Yates’ Deathly Hallows—not to mention the fact that the final book will be made into two parts, so there should not be so many choices. Deleted, right?
Since the long hair style in the Goblet of Fire, I have completely lost faith in Daniel Radcliffe. The gentle and honest Xiao Zhengtai in the Sorcerer’s Stone should grow and frustrate. Today’s Gryffindor Triangle The other two men besides the beautiful woman Hermione were simply unsightly, although Daniel changed to short hair and got better. Among the Half-Blood Princes, the one who really surprised me was Michael Gambon. Of the four Harry Potter movies he has starred in so far, only this one can be said to be truly unforgettable. After the death of Richard Harris, I actually didn’t feel particularly good about Dumbledore in Gambon. Sometimes I felt like a crazy old man; however, in the Half-Blood Prince, he completely changed my view. impression. Harris' Dumbledore is very kind, he is a grandfather-level figure at a glance; while Gambon's Dumbledore is a mixture of various qualities, his intelligence, his wisdom, his humor, his strength, and his introspection. , Even his death, all this makes people feel that this is the Albus Percival Woolfrick Brian Dumbledore who is called "the greatest magician" .
Needless to say the special effects. What I watched in the movie theater was the IMAX version with 3D clips in the first fifteen minutes. If the collapse of the Millennium Bridge looks enjoyable but actually does not have much effect on the progress of the plot, the section at Slughorn’s house It shows the charm of 3D. The plates and books flying in the air are within reach; the sea outside the cave and the passage in which Dumbledore uses flames to drive away the corpse in the cave are very gorgeous, and other magical treatments are equally excellent. However, in the end, we still have to face the biggest problem. On the basis of such an unbalanced story, excellent special effects have the meaning of being overwhelming for special effects. The most praiseworthy is the original sound. Although John Williams’s original works only have the theme of fragmented Hedwig, the overall match with the movie is very good, the suspenseful and thrilling passages are full of atmosphere, and some passages even carry The tragic sense of epic is arguably the best among the four non-Williams composers.
After all, the huge RPG series of Harry Potter, like all RPGs, the core part is the story. An RPG without a good story is destined not to be an excellent game. Similarly, no matter how good the actors, special effects, music, and pictures are, they cannot conceal the huge shortcomings of the half-blood prince in the script; after careful calculation, it can be said to have merits and demerits, and overall it can only be evaluated as mediocre. However, even if it is mediocre, it does not matter, I will definitely go to the cinema to contribute my money, just because it is Harry Potter.
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