Compared with the Hollywood narrative style of the previous films by American director Chris Columbus, starting from the Order of the Phoenix, it was directed by British director David Yates, adding British introverted academic elements, making the film slightly dull and obscure. . The latest episode of Deathly Hallows II, the finale of the Harry Potter film series, highlights this shortcoming.
The worst part is probably the soundtrack. As a foreshadowing of the plot, the Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows are gradually dominated by gray and black tones, and the music of the movie is also confusing, and in the last movie, whether it is the ultimate fight, or Hogwarts To defend the battle, the music of the film has never been able to set off the theme atmosphere very well, neither like the repeated use of the German composer Hans Zimmer in "Pirates of the Caribbean" to fully reflect the bravery and fearlessness, nor the "Lord of the Rings" Different musical instruments are used to intersperse and reflect the progressive plot of different battle links, and the last movement of the most epic is often to push everything to the extreme, and then slowly descend, showing the character's heart in an elegant manner. , highlighting the theme, this time is what the movie should convey to the audience, but Harry Potter's music has always been in a state of no theme, has been tepid and vague, making the movie more ambiguous, There is no focus, no succession and integration.
It can be seen that the director tried to retain the plot structure of the original work, but lost his grasp on the rhythm of the film. The beginning and the previous episode couldn't be connected, some innocuous dialogues made it difficult to get into the play, and then the fights were a bit chaotic, the scenes were messy and trivial, if this was not a British filming and replaced by a Hollywood director, at least he will be in the film. When Hagrid returned to Hogwarts with Harry in his arms, he used music to describe his sorrow and despair. At least he would use a heroic rhythm to sound the horn of the counterattack and give us a firm look. At least he would not let The man emptyly shows the pain after the war and has no account of these pains. At least he will spend more time depicting the defense of Hogwarts to improve the visibility instead of starting to use pale dialogue to pile up meaningless things. plot.
When it comes to acting, several supporting roles are remarkable. Voldemort's body language (can't see the expression) is just right, Bellatrix Lestrange's usual neurotic, sparkling, Neville should be said to be the first male supporting role in this film, but the director's restrictions make him The color of the film has been discounted. Professor McGonagall can be said to have taken on the task of Dumbledore before. Several scenes are very handsome. In fact, the biggest highlight of the whole film is the beginning of the Hogwarts defense. Unfortunately, from the Death Eaters It was a mess after the attack. Several protagonists basically lack sleep, Weasley and Hermione are like two pieces of wood, and Harry Potter is basically a puppet, with no character description at all, just a rash and irritable adolescent boy. As the protagonist, it's a flaw that makes it unlovable.
Snape's death was dealt with quietly. It seems that the water is flowing faster and faster, and it can be predicted that there is a waterfall in front of it, but when we get there, even the water and the river are gone, and we are left to swing around in space. Snape's death is not heroic, and the retrospect afterward does not show the greatness of this character. Heroes can die on the way to charge, but it is better not to be bitten to death by a pet in a place where no one is, and he has not resisted , people can not miss it.
The last plot is bloody, doesn't it mean that Harry must die? Then Dumbledore showed up and said something half-understood but didn't make sense, and then he lived, enough to earn this year's Golden Raspberry Award for the film. Because the positive and negative characters have not been fully developed, everyone after 19 years seems very funny. The dialogue between Harry and the child on the platform is basically the way of a literary film, and it has nothing to do with the previous and later, and the director gave Malfoy a shot, can you give Neville and Luna a shot? We would love to know how they are.
Compared with the previous American Hollywood-style Harry Potter movies, the colors are bright, the characters are prominent, and the director is more flexible in grasping the rhythm, while the British seem to prefer to use vague and implicit methods to advance the plot, but in In such a large-scale and multi-character movie, people can't find the hidden things in the magic of flying around, or the director is simply lost here, there is neither a smooth narrative nor a sense of progression. , lost control of the camera.
In other words, the meaning of this movie's existence lies in its existence, as if a person has just arrived from the desert to a hotel, although there is only a warm bath in it, there is no hot water to wash comfortably, but it is better than nothing. It's not so good, it's existence, but I still have a little regret.
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