Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
POSTED BY: Hixie129
UPDATED: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 21:20
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since Snape is a potions master, he is "obviously" the Half-Blood Prince. So him just saying that is almost a "well, duh" moment.
So, wait, it is explained who he is? I mean, the book goes into his parentage, his mother being a witch with a surname of 'Prince' and his father being a muggle, hence he was a half-blood, and a 'Prince' on his magical side. Aside from that, I don't know what other explanation people would be looking for. Unless you're looking for what his motivations were, which is indeed explained in the final book.
The film mentions that Hermione went looking in the library but found nothing on who the HBP is.
At the end of the film Snape tells Harry that he is the HBP. And that's it.
Nothing about what the name means. The Half-Blood bit is easy to guess but the Prince bit was never mentioned. His mother and father were never mentioned either if memory serves me correctly.
You have now explained it to me so thankyou.
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I guess it can be looked at this way: the script writer, who works pretty closely with Rowling (so I've heard), goes into it thinking that the people who've read the books will really know more of the backstory and it will mean more to them. Those who have never read the books, though, can still enjoy the movie and get the irony that the person Harry had been idolizing (the HBP) was actually his reviled former potions professor who also just killed his beloved headmaster & friend.
I think I'm in the majority who think Prisoner of Azkaban was the best of the series to date, but that one REALLY leaves a lot out from the book. The fact that the Marauder's map was made by James, Serius, Lupin and Pettigrew was fairly important. And that James, Serius and Pettigrew all became animagus' to be around Lupin when he changed and all that stuff. As was the fact that Harry's patronus took the form of a stag, James' animagus form. How long could it have taken to explain that? 5? 10 minutes? The fact that patronus charms take the forms of animals aren't even addressed until Order of the Phoenix.
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I'm not sure that I've ever been as disappointed by a movie as I was by this one. I loved the last 2 Potter movies that Yates did, especially with what he did to the endings of them, and the 6th book was my favorite book with the most emotional ending. So, given that, and the epic trailers, I thought this film was going to be completely epic.
But man, they butchered the ending. No battle at the end? Everything seemed too calm, Dumbledore wasn't weak and pleading enough. It was just...flat. The most emotional scene in all of the books, from a director that made me feel like someone had just ripped my heart out when a minor character like Cedric Diggory died, and I felt...nothing, here at the end of the 6th movie when I should have been balling.
The movie opens with two very grim, very serious scenes, and then 90% of the film is teenage romances. The Hermione/Ron stuff was way overdone. The 6th book is a lot of Voldemort's past, a lot of the Half Blood Prince, and a side-story of teenage romance. This felt like a teenage romance flick with small side-story's about Voldemort's past and the half-blood prince.
But again, I could have forgiven all that if the ending were up to par and not so emtionally flat. Yates took a minor death like Cedric Diggory's and made me feel extremely emotional. He took a weird battle like the one at the end of the 5th book and turned it into the most epic movie battle of the last few years. Then, when he was given the most emotional death and best battle scene to work with, we got...nothing.
When Sirius was killed in the 5th one and Harry went running after Bellatrix I could feel his anger. They tried to accomplish the same thing in this one, which should only have been better given how major the characters involved were this time, and it just felt weird. Harry's anger was completely lost on me as he chased after the killer.
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Originally posted by lwaves:
You have now explained it to me so thankyou.
Well that was easy
You're welcome.
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