The fact that the books has like 2944383883883 romione and rarry moments that I never got to see on screen is messed up. (Some are just more magical than others.) Wouldn’t that be so much worse? Wouldn’t it be so much more impactful?Įh, to me it would, but again, everyone has their preferences. All of a sudden, it’s not a dark, depressing, husk of a building that’s being destroyed, it’s the warm, inviting, building you’ve always known.
Now imagine all of that but it’s on fire and people are screaming. You see it pan through the window and the beautiful, exterior, shot of the castle, Harry’s home, your home. I know it’s film-only but it’s my favorite scene in all of the films. If they had kept the same warm tones, the same wonky clothes, the same magical atmosphere, and then set everything on fire and killed people left and right, it would have been a complete painful whiplash. Imagine if it had looked as warm/inviting as when Hagrid had returned:īecause here’s the thing…if you suck away all of the magic and whimsy and then destroy the place, it doesn’t have as much of an impact, because you’ve already taken away the magic and whimsy! It’s just a husk of a building you once knew. Because they were kids, they were kids at war, and I wonder how making the tone more warm and childish would have changed the way we viewed them…I mean…it definitely would have changed the way we viewed them because increasing the lighting/color would have ensured that the scenes could be viewed……look at that Death Eater scene…Īnyway, imagine if, in Half Blood Prince, when Bellatrix blew out the Great Hall, instead of already looking dark and depressing because of the movie’s signature move of adding lots of browns and grays and shadows:
Imagine if they had translated that into the last few Harry Potter movies. Instead, he has this bright smile on his face and the colors are bright and cheerful and it makes you realize just how much darkness has infected this magical world. If he had looked determined, it would have been an okay scene, but we would have expected him to look determined. But I keep thinking about the first Kingdom Hearts game, and the idea was that the Disney characters always smiled no matter what they were facing, so, when Sora stabs himself to death, he gives this big, cheesy, smile:Īnyway, the point is that this has always stuck with me, ever since I was a child, because it’s a juxtaposition.
EDWARDIAN GENTLEMAN IN AN OLIVE VELVET PINSTRIPED SUIT MOVIE
Yeah, any movie can make the scenes dark to show the darkness that the characters are facing. But imagine how interesting that would be. It would conflict with the themes of their lives getting darker and grittier. but I gotta imagine, just from looking at it, that blue will always be better than green? At least, it looks a heck of a lot better in this scenario.Īnd here’s the thing, the reason I keep wondering what these films would have looked like in Chris Columbus’ style is because I love the style for reasons others don’t: it’s too childish, too saccharine. I’m not even remotely an expert in film/directing/etc. Why are the scenes so dark/green in the last movie?! But, look, even when Harry wasn’t surrounded by the flames, the shot was still well lit:Ĭompare that shot of Voldemort with this: Hey, at least they had a lighting source.
Imagine if they had approached the last few movies with the same warmth as they did in the first movie: Look at the scene where Harry activates the stone and sees his dead family:Īdmittedly this Youtube video might have made it a bit greener than it normally was but I can’t tell because I remember it being pretty darn green.
Really? How can you tell? What do your Ron-ish eyes see that we can’t? “Death Eaters are on top of the castle!” - Ron bleated. I mean…really…have you looked at them? Have you seen them? Have you seen anything about them? (And the first two video games but that’s besides the point.)Īnd even though I get why other people love other directors/styles, I still wonder what the later movies, especially the last movies, would have looked like if they had kept the lighting/warmth/style of the first two movies.īecause…no offense to the people who worked on the lighting and coloring of the last few movies but…have you looked at them lately? But, even now, if I had to look at all eight films and pick a Hogwarts that feels like Hogwarts, the world that feels like the magical world of Harry Potter, I’d pick the first two films. A lot of that admittedly comes from nostalgia-it was always these first two movies that were on the big library posters or the coloring books or the bookmarks that you’d get at the Scholastic Fair. I’ll still always love the Chris Columbus movies better than anything else because I love the wonky way the wizards dressed, the bright, warm, colors, the layout of Hogwarts and how it all felt inviting and magical. So everyone has their own preference as to which Harry Potter movie had the best style.
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