“When I first saw Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, I exited the theater with an excruciating headache, a lingering sense of emptiness and a very strong desire to punch the film’s cinematographer,” (Ewing) which relates to the movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince which stars Daniel Radcliffe, Michael Gambon, Jim Broadbent, and directed by David Yates. In the sixth Harry Potter Saga, Harry goes to school, becomes obsessed with a mysterious book which belongs to the Half-Blood Prince, and goes on a dangerous mission to save himself in the end. Also, Harry tries to attempt to retrieve a memory of Professor Slughorn, which holds a major key to Voldermort’s downfall. Towards the end of the movie, Malfoy, Harry’s archenemy, secret mission is accomplished. The major critics I reviewed Roger Ebert, Amy Biancolli, Peter Travers, thought the movie accomplished many things and was great. On the other hand, James Blake Ewing did not like the movie at all. I agree with most of the critics and believed the movie went really well in the end.
Roger Ebert, one major critic who approves of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, likes the directing of the movie and acting of the movie stars. I agree with Ebert’s view on Michael Gambon’s acting. “Gambon steals the show as Dumbledore, who for a man his age certainly has some new tricks … up his sleeve…,” which relates to Dumbledore tricking his student, Harry, into going with him on the trip to the underground cave. Where Harry was forced to give Dumbledore the Drink of Despair, a mysterious poisonous potion that has to be drunken in order to receive the Horcrux, a piece of Voldermort’s downfall. Besides that, I agree with Ebert when he says, “I admired this Harry Potter. It opens an...
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“Legally Blonde - Which Is Better: The Movie or the Book?” Review. Web log post. Cinebrary.
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The logical appeal of this paper is showing of how Radcliffe’s displays his feelings of being Harry and idolized as such by his fans. Radcliffe is Asked in an interview “How do you feel about becoming famous?” he replied with “It’d be cool!” demonstrating that in his early childhood he was very open to this idea. These quotes tell of how a young boy demonstrates how a change in life would be, he had no clue of how his life would change just by these movies. Daniel tells how he feels, “I’m more nervous about the anticipation about feeling bad,” telling the interviewer that he worries about those letting the fans down and not signing all their memorabilia. This quote shows that he likes to make people happy. When he cannot accommodate his fan base do so he is left in sadness. Susan Dominus notes that Daniel deserves to receive the golden ticket he earned at age ten, He will not squander his fame on little things when he has the ability to be a major role model. He does not want to hurt his fans feelings but he cannot be at places fo...
In the article “Doubling, Transfiguring, and Haunting: The Art of Adapting Harry Potter for Film” by Michael K Johnson the focus is on the third Harry Potter Movie, Prisoner of Azkaban. The question posed throughout the article is how do adaptions from books to film allow us to move beyond our one way of viewing and understanding the story? Johnson answers this question through discussing the use of time throughout the Harry Potter book and the different filming techniques used to create time changing in the film and comparing the film to the the movie The 400 Blows.
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