Oh, look, it's Gandalf and various Gollums in the Mines of Moria!

[mothwing]

In a part of the mines without dwarven (architectural) remains, that is. I also love how they seem to have used the exact filter set the guys who did the Twilight movie used just to ram home the fact that the story of this movie is really Serious Business, and serious business requires an excess of blues and grey rather than pinks and yellows, apparently. I liked movies which are able to create this effect without filters, but tastes differ.

So, we watched the newish Harry Potter trailer this morning and while there are many things in there that I really like, there are also things that I did not enjoy, unsurprisingly. One was the gollum-inferi and the interior of the cave. Maybe there is not much creative leeway with caves.







Also, while I am quite weary of the changes they made, I am looking forward to this movie because in spite of the gratuitous filter use (look at those colours!) it is so stunningly pretty. Adaptation-wise I doubt that these people's assessment of the movie is wrong, though - concentration of romance and changes to the ending sound exactly like what I would have expected. The spoilers of the movie found here and here also don't really make me that exited about this.

Can't believe they put that in the trailer, and hopefully this isn't going to be as anticlimatic as it looks.

Also:

Weird hairdo there, Narcissa. I love that she was allowed to keep her wrinkles, though - I would not have expected that they allow any of their female characters who are not teachers to look as though they are doing something as obscene as aging.


Great billboard.


I love how Draco loses his contact lenses there.


Holy crap, this scene is going to be so, soo scary. It's already scary in the trailer, I don't want to see it in a cinema, with a score, and sound effects.


Again, I can't believe they put this in the trailer (Snape AKing Dumbledore, that is, if this is indeed the scene, but then, what else should it be?). I am also not a big fan of Rickman's facial expressions.


This (probably 10s long) scene I am looking forward to. 

Right. Back to different concepts of performativity and mediality.

Comments

[utter-pirate.livejournal.com]

Haha, my introduction to the trailer when I made Gillian watch it was:

'Look, it's Lord of the Rings, but with Harry Potter in it!'

I'm glad you posted that pic of their hands because I didn't actually notice it...

Also, I only read HP6 once (very fast) and don't seem to remember that much. May have to re-read before the film is out. Otherwise Gillian will ask me questions about the inevitable gaps and I'll be like: 'Eeerrr.....'

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Seriously, there are so many things that give me flashbacks to other movies, it's not even funny. I am curious whether I'll actually notice many differences between the book and the movie (unlike it's comic relief!Snape does not actually killing Dumbledore - which would be kinda IC for movie!Snape, too, but I guess I'd notice that), as I've only ever read the sixth book once, too - the once I read it with Crocky when it first came out, and never reread it since. I'm kinda glad that I won't be going with anyone who needs any gaps filled.

[crocky-wock.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm glad to tell you two that I'm a real HBP expert. I'll point you to the differences from canon when Snape walks up that tower in his striped boxers, singing Irish drinking chants.

[bronnyelsp.livejournal.com]

The more I see the Gollum!Inferi, the more they piss me off. It's not even a passing resemblance. They are each, individually, EXACTLY like Gollum. That, even more than the fact that their appearance is completely non-canonical, is just making me see several shades of red. I know it's a small thing, but SERIOUSLY, WHY would they make them look EXACTLY LIKE a major computer-effects character in a another fantasy film? Do they have no creativity AT ALL? Or, you know, ability to read (and see that Inferi look, um, basically, like corpses)?

[crocky-wock.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, yes, yes! OMFG! And I don't even want to see Fenrir in full action now, considering the obviously unchanging standards of the CGI inputs. He already looks worse than Lupin to me (which is saying something) although there is no picture of him in "wolf" form yet. And - well, perhaps it's an unlucky shot, but that one Inferi actually looks like a copy of a particular Gollum shot. I've been trying to find it online and couldn't, but I bet it's the one everyone is thinking of.

WB's inability to stick to canon I'm used to by now, but some things in this trailer look so much like "we're trying to clone LotR to make sure this becomes a huge success" that... oh, I dunno. I don't suppose I can really say it makes me sick. Don't think I'll even be resentful about this movie. Just cynical.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Does Fenrir ever change into a nekkid dog-snouted humanoid? I thought he would stay this humanoid alien-wolf thing the entire time, to be honest.

[crocky-wock.livejournal.com]

Not in the movies he won't. He'll have his werewolf moment, I swear. They can't possibly miss out on letting the CGI people show off, can they?

[utter-pirate.livejournal.com]

It's so sad because the movie is going to be a success no matter what they do. You'd think they'd use this guaranteed success to do something worthwhile, but no...

I guess the amount of money the studio is spending on it dictates that it must bring in at least ten times what it cost to produce? *sigh*

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

I know, it looks as though they took Gollum and pasted him in there. I don't know why they go in for all these flashbacks - I don't really know anything about why the release delayed, but I can't imagine that they're so worried about the success of this movie that they stuck to every imaginable safe element they knew from other Fantasy films so they wouldn't have to worry about those. I suppose they chose that Gollum look rather than realistic rotten corpses so they wouldn't alienate their teenaged audience - this entire thing seems to be very much geared towards the Twilight generation, and those guys' parents probably won't like corpses.

[fourthage.livejournal.com]

Ditto what utter_pirate said. The whole trailer apes LotR's style something awful. On the other hand, we did get to see Harry getting owned by Snape, so points for that.

The Inferi = Gollum thing makes no sense. If they were going to rip off LotR for that scene, steal from the Dead Marshes. That's what that bit reminded me of in the book.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

I was hoping for Dead Marsh-flashbacks, actually, I thought they were really well-done and pretty scary and probably easier on the CGI budget, too. Well. So much for that.