I didn’t read the books.
Prisoner of Azkaban— and to a lesser extent Chamber of Secrets and Goblet of Fire— had a necessary mix of whimsy, humor, color, and charm, and also seriousness/darkness. The series should have stayed that way.
But then first they sucked out the literal color, then the literal light, then the happiness out of the movies. By the time I saw the earliest part of Deathly Hollows, I just stopped caring. Every moment became joyless and hard to watch.
If there’s no more discovery of the whimsy of the wizarding world, no more wonderment, no more seeing characters be just plain likeable, why do I care anymore? The series slowly became about friends being jealous and petty, people being double-agents, and about death and loss.
I had to read a summary of the events of Deathly Hollows, because I couldn’t subject myself to 4 more hours of misery after the latter two-thirds of Half-Blood Prince. Now I’m just going to enjoy the full LEGO Harry Potter collection game.
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The Philosopher’s Stone did genuinely feel like we were transported into a new world with exciting new things. But that sense of awe was not replicated later and it slowly worsened until we got to a green tinted Half-Blood Prince.
These days shock and awe is given attention - Dune really did this well, though Foundation also did well with this initially but took it too far and lost substance.
This might be something to look forward to given we have a new Harry Potter series coming, but it doesn’t seem guaranteed to produce good results without good direction, story etc.
Also:
There’s probably some edits on fanedits dot org. I love DonKamillo’s edits for the Hobbit. I remember there at least being a jpotter who did HP ones, but there’s probably loads of them.
Jpotter did one for Half Blood Prince where they took the atrocious green/emerald tint out.
They aesthetic choices of the movies directly reflect the events of the story. Voldemort coming back into power literally drained all the joy out of the wizarding world for those who knew and understood what was happening. The story turned from one of discovery to one of self preservation.
Voldemort let dementors loose to feed on any joy they could find, no wonder the characters became jealous and petty. Then the sense of impending doom from the threat of Voldemort or his followers and their terrorist style attacks meant that any gathering that could have been joyous turned downtrodden and melancholy.
The tone of the films reflect these events. The films didn’t touch on the prevalence of the dementors except briefly, so instead they showed the constant cloudy grey skies. The sense of impending doom is seen in the darkness of the scenes. In settings where the characters can be more free or relaxed the scene is brighter and more colorful. In settings where that relative safety is more easily broken the scene is dark and foreboding.
I’m not trying to say the movies were all perfect gems that got everything right, but the stylistic choices for scene and lighting I think were used to emphasize the greater tone of the events as seen by the characters.
It is really not recommended to watch it without reading it first.
LOL, you’re the person who posted this: “Downvote me all you want, but I have to complain. Most bad things in the series would never happen— especially to Harry— if people just talked, explained, or defended themselves like human beings.”
Congrats on coming over to lemm.ee, and escaping that shithole lemmy.world
You might also like this really cool audiobook renditon by an amazing person who got their work taken off Youtube, https://castbox.fm/channel/Harry-Potter-|-Immersive-Soundscape-id5488497?country=gb - it’s got background sounds and all!
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They’re always defederating from servers and their ambitions are too big. Lemmy is defederated by design but lemmy dot world behaves like reddit. They’ve also bizarrely taken it upon themselves to defend the IMF. So combining that with their aversion to piracy communities (they only allowed it again recently) they’re a threat to free speech.
Shithole is strong word though.
