Evisceration Then Hooking Up: The Movie
Jul. 15th, 2009 05:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lokifanIn half an hour, I’m off to see the sixth film with my mates!
I’m generally pretty indifferent to the films; I don’t like them much but they’re entertaining, and how events are portrayed in the films can add an extra dimension to meta on the books. I am nerdy enough to appreciate them for that.
But this film! Half Blood Prince is my boy’s book, and it had damn well better be his film. I really don’t like Harry much in this book, and the book itself is... well, I like it for Draco, and Snape, and the connections that are built between the three. It’s somewhat soured by the fact that the character arcs didn’t get resolved – at least, the relationships between them didn’t – in Deathly Hallows, but still cool.
Of course, the worry is that the romance in this book, including the moment that makes me want to write Ron/Hermione – specifically, creepy abusive!Hermione destroys Ron’s already tenuous self-esteem and attacks him with budgies because she’s jealous and controlling – will be the focus. Which would just be wrong. The romance had to be there, to show that they’re teenagers and to pad out the Gryffindor-centric plot when all the main action is going on with Dumbledore, Snape and Draco. But if the film is cutting stuff, I think we all know what it needs to be cutting.
To whit: Tom Felton in a girls’ loo.
What I’d really love, though, is a montage of Harry following Draco about while Ginny follows him. Preferably set to Blondie.
INT, Day. Draco walks down a stone corridor. He’s glancing back every so often, seeming anxious, almost paranoid. He’s almost grey, with dark shadows under his eyes.
We see Harry peek out of a doorway, check, then run across the corridor to the next doorway a little further down. Draco pauses, frowns, glances back; Harry quickly jerks out of sight.
Music begins.
One way or another, I’m gonna find ya, I’m gonna getcha getcha getcha getcha one way or another...
*grins* But I’ll take Narcissa pwning Harry at Madam Malkins’. “Your husband’s a lewzer.”
“Ooh! Ouch! At least he’s not a *corpse*. Like Sirius. Remember that time he *died*?
CANNOT WAIT FOR AZKATRAZ.
I’m generally pretty indifferent to the films; I don’t like them much but they’re entertaining, and how events are portrayed in the films can add an extra dimension to meta on the books. I am nerdy enough to appreciate them for that.
But this film! Half Blood Prince is my boy’s book, and it had damn well better be his film. I really don’t like Harry much in this book, and the book itself is... well, I like it for Draco, and Snape, and the connections that are built between the three. It’s somewhat soured by the fact that the character arcs didn’t get resolved – at least, the relationships between them didn’t – in Deathly Hallows, but still cool.
Of course, the worry is that the romance in this book, including the moment that makes me want to write Ron/Hermione – specifically, creepy abusive!Hermione destroys Ron’s already tenuous self-esteem and attacks him with budgies because she’s jealous and controlling – will be the focus. Which would just be wrong. The romance had to be there, to show that they’re teenagers and to pad out the Gryffindor-centric plot when all the main action is going on with Dumbledore, Snape and Draco. But if the film is cutting stuff, I think we all know what it needs to be cutting.
To whit: Tom Felton in a girls’ loo.
What I’d really love, though, is a montage of Harry following Draco about while Ginny follows him. Preferably set to Blondie.
INT, Day. Draco walks down a stone corridor. He’s glancing back every so often, seeming anxious, almost paranoid. He’s almost grey, with dark shadows under his eyes.
We see Harry peek out of a doorway, check, then run across the corridor to the next doorway a little further down. Draco pauses, frowns, glances back; Harry quickly jerks out of sight.
Music begins.
One way or another, I’m gonna find ya, I’m gonna getcha getcha getcha getcha one way or another...
*grins* But I’ll take Narcissa pwning Harry at Madam Malkins’. “Your husband’s a lewzer.”
“Ooh! Ouch! At least he’s not a *corpse*. Like Sirius. Remember that time he *died*?
CANNOT WAIT FOR AZKATRAZ.