Harry potter and the order of the phoenix movie poster

The other albatross holding these movies back is the director, David Yates, the man who has been at the helm of the Wizarding World movies since Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. There are still whole scenes that feel unneeded, entire moments that could be cut with nothing lost, and characters who could easily be condensed into single entities to tighten up the pacing. Here, in movie three, Rowling has reduced her role to mere вЂњco-writer.вЂќ The result is a script that is tighter and snappier, though still not to the level needed to be enjoyable. They might work in a 700-page book (although I would again argue the biggest flaw in the HP books, especially the fourth and fifth, is that they are a bit flabby in the middle, and needed an editor with the power to tell the writer вЂњnoвЂќ), but they do not work in a two-hour film. On the other than, Rowling is-so far-not a competent screenwriter, and the biggest flaw with the second of these FB movies was how overstuffed they were with characters, plot threads, scenes, and moments that were completely unnecessary in a movie. The Harry Potter books are modern masterpieces of fantasy literature and will stand the test of time. Her talents as a novelist cannot be challenged. The first belongs to writer/mastermind JK Rowling. I would summarize the struggles of this new HP franchise as a two-headed beast. Perhaps it wasnвЂ™t, but the third movie might just be.ДЇirst of all, did the movie do anything to improve upon the previous one? Yes, but it did not go far enough. ItвЂ™s far from the franchise-killing disaster that some are making it out to be. Instead what we got was an absolute mess of a film, one which has only gotten worse in my estimation, as I was overly generous to it back in 2018. It needed to rely on the new characters that were already well-liked, tell a fresh story, build on what worked, and tone down the misfires of the first. All вЂњThe Crimes of GrindelwaldвЂќ needed to be was competent. Everything was set up for a fun follow-up in what was announced as a five-part series. It also was, like the previous, an original story, not adapted from a novel, meaning all its twists and turns would be completely surprising to audiences. It too had to follow a successful film, though it had more of an advantage in that the first FB movie was nowhere near the tremendous box office monster that the original HP movies were, meaning there was less pressure on it. It had the task of following, not Harry Potter, but the first Fantastic Beasts movie. The follow-up, however, was a flawed, flawed movie. Instead, it told its own tale, introduced new characters, and created its own tone.

And yet, despite a few minor mistakes here and there, it did exactly what it needed to do: It did not try to reinvent the HP wheel, nor did it dare try to recreate the same moments and feelings of the original stories. The first Fantastic Beasts film, which was released way back in 2016 had the unenviable task of following the uber-successful Harry Potter series. You have to take an honest look at the mistakes, be humble enough to completely abandon what didnвЂ™t work and try entirely new things that might work. You have to identify the вЂњalmostsвЂќ and tweak them just enough to make them work. On the other hand, following a failure has its own set of challenges. ItвЂ™s a tough task to follow a movie that works. You have to expand the universe, tell a new story, and grow the characters without it feeling like abandoning what worked the first time around. You have to find a way to recreate the magic (no pun intended) of the first film without it feeling redundant or tired. If thereвЂ™s a prevailing color, it is grey.ДЇollowing a successful movie brings with it certain expectations, goals, and challenges. The rest of the movie is dark, dull, drab, and dour. Instead, that ten seconds was an aberration. Had the rest of the movie even tried to emulate that one sceneвЂ™s color, imagination, and excitement I would have walked out of the theater happy to anticipate another entry in the franchise. It was the only part of the movie where my eyes widened in wonder and I felt a little twinge of awe, the way the Harry Potter books made me feel when I first read them. ItвЂ™s a slow-motion, vividly lit, beautifully shot sequence that lasts no more than ten seconds. They race up a stairway of magically-summoned book pages. There was a moment, about midway through the third Fantastic Beasts film, when Kowalski and Hicks are escaping from the dinner party/assassination attempt.

Harry potter and the order of the phoenix movie poster