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104. Points. Julie. 😊🎉❤gryffindor. Hogwarts house 🏡

I love his books as well, particularly the mistborn series, glad a fellow fan is discussing this as I haven't heard this before

David Yates ruined everything

I'd just like to ask, when will your Hermione retrospective video will be out at some point?

The movies didn’t tell us anything about voldemorts psyche. They didn’t tell us about his family and his desperate wish his father would be a wizard because his mom died and death is in his eyes not worthy of a wizard. Also the whole story of his mom was so important, because she came from an abusive household and because they married their cousins to remain pure blooded, she and her brother became really ugly. She was in love with the pretty Tom riddle senior and forced him into an relationship with most likely love potion. She basically raped him and they had a child together. They didn’t really tell us he likes trophies (the stolen objects of his victims when he was a kid) They didn’t tell us that Hogwards was his first real home. They didn’t really go into the fact that he killed his muggle family at about the age of 16. Then he changed the memory of his uncle who is a useless alcoholic by now, so that he proudly thinks he murdered the riddles. And lastly we see way too less of his persuasive nature as a teen. The whole picture would be that he was created without love from his father. He left him and his mother immediately. His mom died shorty after riddles birth and left riddle without parents. He was given no love his entire life and he also never loved anyone else. He basically became a sociopath because he showed no empathy. Bering named after his muggle father made him hate his name and also because he didn’t want to be named with a regular name as a lot of other people are named Tom. He wanted to be special and created his own identity as Voldemort. And he was highly intelligent and very charming which he used to be liked by everyone in school. Undercover he managed to open the chamber of secrets and kill his muggle ancestors to create the first horcruxes in his teens. The horcruxes where trophies of something that was valuable in the wizarding world and he had hidden them in places meaningful for him. Like his wizard ancestors house or hogwards as his first home or the cave where he tortured muggle children. In the movies we didn’t get all of that really. There he is just bad but we don’t really get to know much about the depths of his bad nature.

There are some frames om thr Goblet of Fire where Voldemort is regenerating. He has long neck, almost skull like head, snake eyes and very weird, almost greenish skin Then he becomes the one we see later on I really wish they kept that appeareance before he completed the revival

Not gonna lie, this is a great video. I love how you pointed out the problems in the Cursed Child. Also, I would love to see your video of Top 10 Favorite Moments In Harry Potter or Series You've Watched or Read if you have free time to make those videos.

From the very start of the series it is established that Dumbledore is an incredibly talented and powerful wizard. He invented the deluminator that he used to put out all the lights on the Dursleys' street. No such thing existed before he came up with it. His trap with the Mirror of Erised is also what made the stone impossible for Voldemort to retrieve, again something he came up with entirely on his own. There's also a quote that I take directly from the first chapter from the first book. Dumbledore: Voldemort had powers I will never have. McGonagall: Only because you're too noble to use them. This implies that Dumbledore is just as if not more dangerous than Voldemort himself. He just chooses to not use that power to do evil deeds like Voldemort does. This is not once shown in the movies in any way shape or form. The only scene that even comes close to showing Dumbledore's power IMO is the cave scene in HBP with the fire storm but even that doesn't do his true potential justice. There is not a single spell Dumbledore does not know and this is what makes him so terrifying to the Death Eaters and Voldemort. They know he's capable of things they've never seen before.

Funny that you know the correct pronunciation of “Voldemort” which most people (including the films) get wrong, yet you’re still mispronouncing the name “Rowling”

I could write a 20 page essay on my issues with CC. So instead I'll just list out my biggest ones. 1: Voldemort has a child. Do I need to go into further detail about why this is BS? 2: Harry treats his kid like crap despite being treated like crap his entire time growing up. He should have a manual on what NOT to do. 3: Cedric becomes a Death Eater because he lost a competition. Really? 4. Time travel not working even remotely close to how it does in the OG series. You can't change the timeline. 5. Snape is alive for some reason despite not making any sense whatsoever. He should still 100% be dead.

Excellent. Hope you keep making videos!

So this is a glorified, it’s a wonderful life? Stupified in this case…

The line "no way, José" is so out of character for kids born in 21. century. The most of the play reads as a not very good fan-fiction. There are one, at most two, moments that sound in tone with the series.

The films fail to show how obscenely perverse he is in using magic in most concerning ways.

The films fail to show how terrifying Dumbledore truly is, how what separates him from world domination is his just not wanting it.

All these analysis videos of the play/script and even other some things of Harry Potter lore that I’ve watched- is that the fans/readers are better writers than the official ones. This is also why I can’t give up the world- especially HP fanfics or ships. Majority of the fan base know and have written better versions of the entire main cast either in alternate versions or as adults. There’s a reason that the ship fics and the marauders have been so popular in the fan spaces.

I agree, I always felt that Voldermort was more menacing in the books. In the films, there is actually a scene I quite like and it's the scene at the beginning of Deathly Hallows where he kills that hogwarts teacher. He is a lot more like his book counterpart there, moving slowly, intimidating everyone in the room, and then lashes out suddenly with the killing curse, like a snake attacking his prey. It's great imo. Is it perfect to his book counterpart? No, I don't think he's "Quite" scary enough but maybe that's because of how he had already been portrayed. If his portrayal in that scene had been kept consistent throughout, I think he would have been deemed much more frightening of a villain overall. Also I think the films often had this weird fixation with trying to get through more intense scenes quicker. It didn't build the tension. Often, when reading the books, I'd imagine certain scenes of dialogue as much slower and deliberate, but in the films, and this is much more noticeable in the movies from PoA onwards, they're often shouting, and they seem to be rushing through their lines. It's not always the case, but I do feel like the pacing of some scenes are done to try and fit everything in at the expense of the pacing of the story.

I disagreed with most of the things you said in the video, and while you could have come to the good conclusion, it is for wrong reasons. Your argument can be basically summed up as "the films show a more energetic Voldemort, which feels like a character assassination to the book version". However you don't take into account the fact that what works in written media, doesn't necessarily work on film. In writing you have a lot of freedom, you can create immersion in more ways that films aren't confined into. How a character percieves the world, smells, feelings, inner thoughts. Films are about visuals, its harder to create atmosphere and they also have to be more compact than a book. Look at the LOTR trilogy where every film is 3 hours long, yet they still couldn't include a lot of scenes. In my opinion this more active and impulsive version of Voldemort fits the screen much better than the book version. His movements and expressions speak of unprecedented evil and unpredictability, he is menacing. The book version of him with the slow movements could have come off as boring and unthreathening in comparison. In my opinion the later film's darker filters and slower pace also compromised their tone, they come off more as a boring attempt at a realistic thriller than a compelling fantasy. I also think he is more threathening post Goblet of Fire than he was in Chamber of Secrets. (of course I mean the films here) I believe this would have applied to Voldemort as well, and while you can create cold and calculated villains on screen too, they have to be believable in order to work. Its true that his character was built up from the first film, but he doesn't do anything which justifies him being *THE* big bad. Sure he defeats Harry and kills Cedric, but they are still students and he later loses to Dumbledore. In the books Rowling may had the pages and freedom to make him menacing, but again, what works in a written story doesn't necessarily work on film. For example you also brought up the awkward Draco scene, which in my opinion works quite well. Voldemort is portrayed as an impulsive and unpredictable character, and that scene does have awkward tension in it, which was on purpose. I wouldn't have been surprised if he just murdered Draco in cold blood to make an example of him, thats why he's believable villain on film. Considering how the movies already have quite a few flaws not even regarding the changes to the original events, I think if they tried to force the book version onto film we would have gotten a stale and overall less threatening antagonist. This also applies to his appearance, as back then characters who would have had to rely on heavy VFX to work were harder to make and weren't as believable. For example, Thanos from Infinity War looks great, because CGI was more advanced at that time, meanwhile around the 2000's it was still unrefined tech

I kinda disagree he's a good written character. One thing he has in common in both books and movies is that he's one dimentional and boring

Is there anything about the book/play/script you like? For me it's the scene where Draco admits to having been jealous of Harry for having actual friends and admirers. It sounds super-cheesy but the way it's contextualized it did ring true to me.

Excellent explanation well done

What is your list of Potter characters in which you will discuss, in order?

@MediaRetrospective, great video by the way.

13:32, what happened here is what I sometimes call writerspeak where it’s nominally a character who is saying something but it’s actually the writer. Since it’s out of character for Harry to say this but the writers felt compelled to interject their own objections to Dumbledore’s behaviour into Harry’s dialogue

0:55, agreed. (Though I consider that inarguable.)

Finally. Part Two is out

Is this entire book just based on alternative timeline bullshit?

This play was literally the gay love story between Albus and Scorpius confirmed by the playwrights. They are in their 4th year. Most full-blown romances tend to start 6th yr. In the final updated version, all scenes alluding to straight pairs were deleted. 🎉 and Albus tells Harry in the end that Scorpius will always be the most important person in his life and Harry's reaction: 'He looks at his son. He knows this is important. He smiles. He knows.' So any critique that missed out on the whole point of the play (the gay love) should be entirely dismissed. The time turner fiasco was merely happening around the main storyline (the love story). Homophobes stay mad lol.

Two reasons why many feel Voldermont character fell short. First and obvious you can only put so much in a 2 and 1/2 hr movie a lot had to be flushed out to meet the time slot. Second, director David Yates may offer one of the best cinematography however he isn’t that good in character development causing the plot to loose cohesion just look at what he did with Fantastic Beasts movies. His lack of character development is noticeable in the half blood prince movie when Yates cut out the Gaunt family story line. Without this crucial info on Tom Riddle jr. past and how it led him to become Voldermont, for those who haven’t read the book would simply conclude that Voldermont was simply a born psychopath since they’re unaware of the unique circumstances of his birth.

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A big strength/weakness was making it part of the Harry Potter series. Expanding it to another wizarding school/community independant of the wizarding wars feels like a better idea. It would expensive, but imagine if international productions adapted the plot to take place in that country, ie Ilvermorny in USA productions, Castelobruxo in Latin America, Mahoutokoro in Japan, etc.

What’s frustrating is Ralph Finnes could’ve played the book version of Voldemort perfectly if the writers and directors chose that take. A book accurate Voldemort would be almost like his character in The Menu, they’re very different characters but both have that controlled, calm rage and hatred and resentment at the world that comes out in unexpected ways.

Really happy that you made part 2. I am really hooing that you do a video with what the movies did to ginny

You make great content but please consider putting less AI art in your videos. Many of the images used in this video are AI generated and not only is it a very gross practice they're also just ugly to look at the more you inspect them

I was waiting for this to come out!! Thanks

For movies of this scale I have no doubt there was a dozen proposed designs, some of which they would have made and then scrapped somewhere down the line after realizing it doesn't work on screen the way it did in the books. It's the same reason superheroes are so muted and less vibrant in live action. There's also the issue of expression. The less human you go the less of the actors performance comes through. There are some performances which were well preserved like Davy Jones, but then you have to ask the question do you want the whole character to be CG or do you want it to be as practical as possible. In the case of Davy Jones CG was the only possibilty. With Voldemort they had the option to keep it more practical and personally I think they went for the middle ground. The only real issue is he's too animated, angry and theatrical and it takes away from some moments as well as the creepy vibe he should be giving.

I really regret liking the Cursed Child, i was 14 years old when the play and script book came out in 2016, and I thought it was a rather decent story. As an adult, i am embarrassed at how the writers contradicted the original 7 books and ruined the characters we know and love, especially Harry since he's my favorite character, and I hated the way he was mischaracterized in the Cursed Child, smh. I'm also disappointed that the other Next Gen kids James II, Lily II, Hugo and Rose didn't get more screentime, and I thought James would look after Albus, but we didn't see any of that in the story. I hated how it tried to ruin the Goblet of Fire since that's my favorite installment in the series. Cedric becomes a Death Eater after losing the Triwizard Tournament? That's just nonsensical. And how did Voldemort even fall in love with Bellatrix, despite not feeling any genuine love for her and any characters? It does not make any sense. The story's only redeeming qualities are Scorpius' relationship with Albus, and Draco's redemption arc since those are the only good parts of the Cursed Child.

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Thank you so much for this video LMAO I only ever heard the audio of this crap shit -- now I can see that the main characters would change but not without reason...if we were given a reason as to why Harry changed so much then I would be able to accept this drastic character change more easily...along with the others.

To your point about Voldemort relying on magic over his physicality and humanity, this is specifically contrasted in book 7 by Harry, who digs Dobby's grave by hand. And whilst doing this Harry is able to block out Voldemort's thoughts and feelings. It's a specific thing that makes Harry and Voldemort different from each other. One values his mundane humanity, one tries to get rid of it.

Harry Potter and the book that shouldn’t f*cking exist

I might be wrong, but i recall there where a backlash after the 4th movie that Voldemort is to scary for kids and thats why they toned him down in the rest of the movies.

Christopher Lee would have been the perfect Dumbledore. In fact, Dumbledore has quite a few more parallels to Saruman than he does to Gandalf.

I thought it was the best harry potter story, but i understand and respect your opinion

This is a very beautiful video. Love it...

So I haven't read the books. But I liked the movie version. It definitely is different. But the question I'd like to ask is, was the new version still true to what he is meant to represent? He installs fear and terror. This version is my sonical. Enjoying the suffering more.

Muggle-born: Only seen the films. Half-Blood: Only seen the books. Pure-Blood: Seen both the film and the movies. Muggle: Never read or seen anything related to the franchise. Squib: Only seen the spin offs.

I agree, best scene in movie, thanks for breakdown. I missed a few suttle things you caught.

Johnny Depp in Fantastic Beasts did a better job with the stoic dark lord aesthetic imo. He still moved quite a bit but everything he did he seemed to do with purpose. Even when casting spells he stood still and moved the wand almost like a conductor would move while conducting a symphony rather than just aggressively point his wand and yell “Nyeh!!!”