Revisiting The FAILURE of The Harry Potter Franchise | Video Essay
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- In this Video Essay we break down how the Harry Potter Franchise went through a controversial downfall. Turning one of Hollywood's biggest and most successful film franchises and turning it into a Fantastic Beasts disaster. We leave no stone unturned and deep dive into everything from diminishing returns in the Fantastic Beasts Franchise, the JK Rowling controversy and why Hogwarts Legacy seems to be the only successful venture into the Wizarding World recently.
Can the original trio of Harry, Ron and Hermoinne come back to save this dwindling franchise?
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2015)
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (2010)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011)
Hogwarts Legacy (2023)
0:00 - Intro
3:07 - Part 1 (Harry Potter)
14:12 - Part 2 (Fantastic Beasts)
26:06 - Part 3 (JK Rowling) - Фільми й анімація
My hot take: It’s ok for franchisees to die once they’ve reached their main conclusion. Star Wars, Harry Potter, Marvel phase 4 has all been beating a dead horse to try cash in as much as possible on already established storyline / universes rather than leaving them be and building the next big franchise
So true, I got tired of the marvel universe around civil war .. then around the 6th Harry Potter movie It got really dark and lost its flare...
not a hot take tbh
Only issue I have is that marvel should be able to build up a new long form story, but it seems like they are confused with the whole part that they need to make movies that is engaging
At least we sometimes get good stuff out of it, like Andor, Loki, Guardians of the Galaxy 3, etc.
@@ggvbayareaoakland5914But it was supposed to? It’s based on a book series and was reaching its conclusion. The point is HP should’ve probably left it at the end of deathly hallows rather than making fantastic beasts(at least as some sort of weird prequel) and to be honest the franchise would probably have been more popular for it. Not that the franchise should’ve ended once the tone shifted away from the previous films, as that’s what the books did as well.
I really thought Fantastic Beasts would be a story about a man who had been outcast from society for being different, who had resigned to the love and company of magical creatures, learning to love humans again and healing from the pain that humans have inflicted on him in the past. And, in the end, even fighting to save humankind. But nope. That story about love did not happen. No character arc for Newt at all. And it could've been such a beautiful story!
I would've really liked that if that were the themes presented in the FB movies.
I thought so too. Jacob has more character development than him in the third movie. Newt was just there not really doing anything big.
If I ever become a director I would definitely hire you.
For a series about fantastic beasts, there's very little fantastic beasts after the first movie
I think J K Rowling wanted to do something similar to Better Call Saul. In BCS, Saul, Kim, Chuck, Howard etc are the main focus of the show, but it also show the cartel side of things including Gus, the Salamancas, Mike, Nacho, etc in an equally well balanced way without giving them too much limelight. I think if the Fantastic Beasts franchise were a TV show, it could have done the same thing BCS did, making it way better than what we got instead.
Ironically Tina was an auror so was probably the most equipped to stop Grindlewald more than a teacher, baker, poltitan and a zookeeper lmao
I hated that. She was like the anti Hermione.
@@GonzoGoesToBitburg87 isn't Ron an anti hermione?
I hated Tina. That actress doesn't sell it. Hilarious that JK wrote her off as revenge.
@@MrDeothor yes, but I mean as a strong woman she needs to be rescued way more than Hermione ever did.
Ppl are more than titles and talents go beyond training with plot armor all is possible
The thing that's so frustrating about the Fantastic Beasts films is that the aesthetic is on point. Wizards in early 1900s New York, long coats and hats works so well.
It takes a lot more than costume design to make a good film unfortunately.
Kind of weird how they forgot that wizards are bad at dressing like muggles but maybe the AD 800 "Merlin" look was just the fashion in Hogwarts in the 90s.
Disagree. Wizards in the books do not know how to dress properly like muggles. Their fashion is stationed in medieval style, because that's the period when wizards went into hiding.
@@eduardonevesreis9299It made sense in America. But not when they went back to Britain
I completely disagree. I hate the aesthetic direction towards minimalism/glossiness with the magic and wizarding world vs say, the first movies wizarding aesthetic. It’s bland
I feel like there could have been an extremely sweet little movie about magic/muggle friendships in Fantasstic Beasts if Eddy Redmayne and Dan Fogler had just been allowed to do what they did best, and they had stuck to a tight and closed plot
I've always said, after the end of the first movie, what WB should have done was release two sides, two movie series. Newt traveling the world meeting new magical species, such as Indiana Jones, but with animals and another series of films with a tone more similar to the last Harry Potter films (Serious Tone), about Dumbledore and Grindelwald, a series of films with them as protagonists or with Newt's own brother as such, after all, the parallel between Theseus and Dumbledore would be interesting.
@@JMTgpro Agree entirely. There should have been two different series of films, merging all together made very little sense and did a lot of harm to the franchise.
I couldn't agree more. I felt quite bummed out already at the end of the first Fantastic Beasts movie. I felt the movie had so much potential at fleshing out the wizarding world with little heartwarming or allegorical vignettes tied together with magical creatures and Eddie Redmayne's boyish charm but this element got completely sidelined with the typical blockbuster requirement to end in a huge climax with explosive spectacle in confrontation with a powerful Evil Dark Wizard kind of an antagonist.
And I think it would event work out financially - I mean, once you can populate your film with any kinds of cute little fantastical animals, you don't need huge explosions to do well at the box office.
@@JMTgpro exactly. They missed a golden opportunity to expand the larger universe like the MCU. Instead of just five films, they could have developed more with other writers and directors, one set of films focusing on Newt and his adventures and others the conflict between Dumbledore and Grindelwald, with Theseus and Tina acting as threads that connects them.
I've wanted to see more of Harry and Ginny's children (the next generation), and I always wondered why JKR never based her 5 film plan on the CC universe instead? I know the Cursed Child had people feeling lukewarm, but it has some solid characters, and, at the very least, it would still have some connections to the older, well-loved cast.
Another important theme of hp was identity. Harry was discovering his family origins, and the world where he belonged. Fantastic beasts could have been about the outcasts of the magic community, the fight for animal creature rights, compassion and heart warming friendships. I always thought that placing Grindelwald on the movie was really a stretch.
"Another important theme of hp was identity."
This wasn't a theme, this is a common trope. It's part of the hero's journey and it's pretty standard.
@vgmp But it still was a big part of the story, wasn't it?
Both can be true imo.
heart worming lol
@@adamwarlock8263 my keyboard is set in spanish and auto correct is a nightmare, but glad it made you feel smart. Also I am not a native english speaker. Have a nice day.
@@BenderBendingRodriguezOFFICIAL whether is a theme or not it is what gives harry a character Arc. In fantastic beasts no character seems to grow or change. Some characters don't even have motivations, or even proper lines to be fair. I guess my point Is i would have rather engaged with a few well written characters than the mess it was. At least that is my take :)
The reason why the Harry Potter movies were so successful to me was because each successive film matured with its audience. By the time The Deathly Hallows came out, it had some very mature themes about life and death compared to the earlier films. The films were very unique in that regard. These newer HP films I didn’t even know were related to franchise because the films have been so synonymous with youth. So seeing an adult play the main character made me think it was just another film.
I think the problem is that, It isn't following a goal based journey. If u know the goal, only then will u be surprised by twists. Every Harry Potter book follows a major goal/danger etc that is revealed from the start
That and they were a book first
Totally
I never liked the Wizarding World in the first place
Even the earlier films were mature in their storytelling.
It's such a shame because I love the first movie of Fantastic Beasts. Out of all the Harry Potter characters, I relate to Newt the most and it's so heartwarming to see his love and passion for magizoology. I would love to see just Newt going around the world with the plots revolved around him and his struggles educating the magical world at large about how misunderstood those animals were. But nooo, we need to dive around this over-complicated plot about Grindelwald while they made Newt standing around like a useless lamppost because the plot literally has nothing to do with him
Here's what I would have done with the franchise:
- Dumbledore vs Grindelwald trilogy
- Fantastic Beast standalone film
- Creation of Hogwarts
- Origins of Azkaban
- Beedle the bard's stories animated film (each story with a different animation and told by a different actor)
- TV show about the Marauders/First War
- TV show about young Voldemort
Yeah, this is actaul enjoyable stuff with a tightly held story to back it. This would have been the smart decision
Do we really need a fantastic beasts movie? Who would be the antagonist? Besides that ur plan is great
@@dibyanshumohanty It would be just Newt's adventures that helped him make the book ig
@@anirudhjain2462 as i can see u r a fellow marvel fan, so u know what happens when we have non speaking beast like animals as antagonist, look at eternals...now i know eternals was more than that but ig u get my point, the movie would turn out like a biography and people would be like....nah they are just cashing out the Harry Potter IP
@@dibyanshumohanty the problem with eternals was the plot and lack of creativity.
With Fantastic Beasts what I would do is make Newt a character who pushes the plot unlike in the movies released.
I never understood why Fantastic Beast was the direction she chose. All I have ever wanted to see was the Marauders. Loony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs at school with Snape and Lily leading into Voldemort’s first rise. Why was that not the choice?
Many people wouldn't have been interested in that. The marauders were a group of teenage bullies.
Absolutely! I wasn't even a marauders girl, but that time period is saturated in juicy character history and back up stories to the trio's school years. I equally crave it and hope they never do it (bc Rowling and generally no studio is capable of doing a good job now)
@@Lilithlyexcept that they accepted Moony, a werewolf, who was rejected by the rest of the wizarding world. I don’t think Snape’s memory is an adequate way to assess who they were. Rowling really was a bit convoluted in their treatment.
Because James and his friends were bullies and criminals lol Would've been hard for audiences to root for them with James and Sirius "hexing people just for the fun of it" since their first year.
@@user-ks5cg5cd7m
We have Snape's memories for reference, which he was hiding and so weren't tampered with like Slughorn's were, so we can be assured that they were accurate to what happened. On top of that, both Sirius and Lupin maintained that James kept bullying Snape behind Lily's back, and that before that James "hexed people just for the fun of it"; hexes are dark magic that usually causes pain and disfigurement and are one step above curses (charms < jinxes < hexes < curses)
I've watched the first Beasts film and I was like "that was pretty cool, the way the villain and Newt stories connected at the end without them having nothing to do with one and another was actually good, can't wait to see what they are going to do with their possibly rivalry :D"
And then I watched the 2nd one and I was like "What the fuck was that???"
What I thought was so strange about the fantastic beast is the fact that no one asked for it. I remember when I was a teenager going online to read fanfictions and there was thousands of them. The storie about the Marauders, the next generation or the origin of Voldemort were among the most common themes. The studio producers didn't even needed to guess which stories the people wanted to be created next, they litteraly could have gone on google to find out
I’m shocked you didn’t talk about the theme parks, their success is literally mind blowing, completely changed the industry
It's about children.
@@robertagren9360 …..wut lol
This video is about the films
@@pierzing.glint1sh76 at the beginning of the video he mentioned the power of the entire brand, videos games and Lego’s, etc.
@@uhuhuh1966 bruh they're rides are fcking amazing!! I heard they're literally making the Ministry of Magic at the new park in Orlando
Its dead because HP revolved around a set of 7 books that people held dear in their hearts. Remember how insane the book releases got? I remember getting GoF and OotP and the queues were mental. People seem to forget this. You didnt touch this early on in the video when you should have, harry potter was becoming a thing well before the first film came out. Once those books were finished on screen, so was the franchise.
I mean, that's sort of implied. The book franchise was massive, that set up the movies being massive.
I agree. The Harry Potter series was about teenage Harry and his two friends having adventures in a magical school. Everything else was backstory. It was just there to give the main story an impression of depth. No one cares about Newt Scamander and his girlfriend, or Dumbledore and his fascist lover, or Voldemort’s completely unlikely daughter.
I suspect JKR would have been fine with letting the story be over. She wrote her masterpiece, and has more money than she can ever spend. But the movie studio cannot let the cash cow die.
I think JK really regrets ending the HP series so definitively. She didn't really leave any room for sequels, she just cut to years later to show that everyone is great and lived happily ever after. Now she wants to make more but there's no room to because things ended so clearly.
@@SquadPoop thats just good writing.
@@lukawho8503 nowadays everything has to be written with a sequel in mind.
I think they just couldn't choose what they wanted to focus on and too much was happening at once. I think the Fantastic Beasts movies should have been 2 separate series. Fantastic Beasts with Newt going to different countries and going on adventures finding the beasts. And then a different series with the first wizarding world, Dumbledore and Grindelwald. I never understood why they bothered with it being called Fantastic Beasts when that was totally put on the back burner. They could have been cool stories on their own.
Ya know what I’ve always wanted for the Harry Potter universe. I’ve always felt like the wizarding could pull off an awesome horror movie. Like have students from different explore a forgotten place with dark magic only for it to go horribly wrong. The wizarding world should some horror movies thrown in.
there's plenty of places to explore in that regards. anything regarding herpo the foul, the creation of dementors and the original owner of azkaban ekrizdis, Voldemort's school years especially the year the chamber of secrets was opened, the quintaped backstory, any of these things could probably make for some great horror potential, I mean that last one literally ends with a whole family being eaten by the monsters they cursed another family into.
@@alecrutz6979 see shit like that would be amazing to explore. So much we can see in terms of horror we have for Harry Potter.
There is a lot of dark fanfiction in the harry potter world that explore some dark themes
The first fantastic beasts and where to find them movie is actually really entertaining and stands on its own legs perfectly fine. Honestly, the two sequels have left a sour taste, but the first one, i can actually rewatch and have a great time every time i do so.
Exactly. The first fantastic beasts movie is a decent spin-off/prequel/addon to the HP universe, that is fun, and shows us more about the wizard world. Then the second and third movies came and shit the bed, making the main character into a super important one for.. no reason other than ''he was in NYC during the thing''.
The first movie is fine if you turn your brain off and ignore that none of the characters actually developed at all, the plotline doesn't make much sense, and most of the friendly characters barely interact with each other at all even though the movie pretends they have some deep bond and wants you to feel bad when they get separated - these people have known each other for 8 hours total. They're acquaintances at best.
I think fantastic could have been a series, following him around while he documents the creatures. Then maybe do a sequel movie when the tackle the big bad and do the Dumbledore story
The first one was average. I think David Yates dropped the ball. It should have been bright and colorful like Philosopher's Stone. I don't know why they shot so many scenes in night time. The movie would have been 10 times greater if the vibe was sunny, warm, island or nature vibe. The American Wizarding World was boring.
@@One.Zero.One101 true. They should have brought back Chris Columbus for the first movie.
I really wish we could let franchises go once they've run their course and wrapped up their story. I know a lot of people still enjoy the franchise, but I think a big part of that is that there's not much replacing it. I'm grateful I was able to experience the Harry Potter books/movies as a kid, and I'm sad that the current generation of kids don't have a "legacy series" of their own, just their parents and grandparents moldy old stories repackaged over and over and over again. Like thrice reheated pizza.
There are some, example: Miraculous
Fully agree.. Just because it was successful and popular with Harry doesn't mean it will always be popular with random other characters..
Most of the stories I grew up on were rehashed fairy tales, legends or victorian children’s stories. That’s just how it works.
Big hit new children’s/young adults stories with a long and lasting legacy don’t come along all that often, and they can’t be brute forced into existence.
Just count yourself lucky to have live through one. The likelihood is that the HP books will still be being read to children when we are all long gone.
Star wars?
It really sucks how franchises can't seem to end on a good note, since if the franchise is on a good note why end it?
I was waiting for you to mention how amazing that fight between Voldemort and Dumbledore in Order of the phoenix was integral as it was the 1st real showcase of how powerful wizard fights can be visually represented well on screen :)
Yeah that was amazing
As an adult looking back at the series, I just have one question. Why tf weren't social services called on the Dursleys???
It will never not be funny that JK messed up her own lore and rules in the Fantastic Beasts movies.
But hey, tell me more about how great of a writer she is.
You make it sound like Harry Potter wasn't already full of plot holes
She did not. Not a lot.
@@plushiesdx like what plot holes for example? Are they so obvious or am I just blind? Sorry, actually got me thinking rn :D
@@chiarastarias8137 dont even bother asking him lol. Clearly just a troll
Deathy Hallows Part 1 is actually my favorite of all the movies. The whole tempo is just great and the time for the character developement hardly needed before the final film. The dancing scene gets me every time. I'm very glad that they split the last movie.
The dancing scene is one of my favourite scenes in the entire franchise. Sooo good.
@@movieoverload Yeah, this movie has so many great scenes of the franchise in my opinion. The beginning with the deaths of MadEye Moody and Hedwig. The wedding attack. How Hermione started crying about losing Ron. The dance scene. The animation of the story from Beedle the Bard. Dobby's death.
Man, I love that movie! 🥰
@@monkeypunch8781 oh that beedle & bard scene alone is perfection ❤️
same i love the lost in the woods theme. and that song they dance to was my favorite
@@movieoverload sammmmme
13:34. I loved that bit about the attention span of a fork. I think Hermione should like to introduce it to her emotionally stunted teaspoon.
The problem with the Crimes of Grindelwald is not that it is dull and has no plot. The problem is that it makes no sense and has too much plot.
The reason why everyone had long hair on the goblet of fire was because of the new director. Previous films, the cast was told to not cut their hair, so it can be done first day on set. The New Director didn't know this but liked the look. So he had the cast keep their hair the way it was when they showed up. Apparently, Rupert Grint was not thrilled about this 😅
Which is why I just love the 3rd & 4th film..
imo, 3rd film had amazing hair, peak main trio hairstyles. 4th film...
From what I've heard regarding everybody suddenly having long hair in Goblet of Fire. Apperently the actors were asked to not cut their hair between the movies, so that the staff on set could do it instead when the filming was about to begin. However, due to some misscommunication before making this movie, people were under the impression that that hairstyle was what everybody was suppose to have, so no one did anything about it.
I’m sure I read somewhere that either Daniel Radcliffe or Rupert Grint said yes they were told to grow their hair after finishing film 3 so the filmmakers could decide how to cut and style it at the start of filming Goblet of Fire. So they all showed up for pre-production with long hair, at which point the director decided he liked the look, so they kept it as that.
I think that was just how teenage boys at the time wore their hair.
Heck when I was that age my hair would gtrow crazy fast in just 2 or 3 months.
For most boys in the UK, including myself, this period of time was the longhair phase
This was also the era on Disney channel where all the boys had that ugly helmet hair with curtain bangs. It was a gross time for style…. The mid 2000’s were weird
Crimes of Grindelwald has one of THE worst writing in entire film history. It’s really incredible. The out of nowhere reveal about the baby switch, then the even more out of nowhere reveal that that switched out baby was actually drowned in the sea… Hooooo my goooooood
I remember that at one time in the theater I was so lost in the story that I was just enjoying the great production design...
Watching those old scenes, something remember I like about the character Harry is that he has long bangs. As in, he doesn't show off his scar. It's a subtle visual nod to the fact that he perhaps feels a tad insecure or embarrassed about his fame. Intentional or not, I like that it's there.
I do think that it was very much the books that created the hype around the wizarding world, the movies "just" expanded on it. While Rowling wasn't writing high literature, she was excellent at world building. I regularly found myself returning to the books for the fillers, the descriptions of life at Hogwarts, small details that made everything come to life.
The problem is: she seems to have forgotten that the world building was what made the series work. If you take that away, what you're left with is a pretty standard good vs. evil tale. Nothing terrible, but nothing special either. Fantastic beasts could have worked if they had allowed comfort and wonder to be priorities instead of mindless action.
Let's be honest, the world is going to shit and signs of that were there long before the first Fantastic Beasts movie was released. People are desperate for distraction and there is a reason why, for example, Ghibli movies got so much attention during lockdown. Not everything has to have a big plot, sometimes it's enough if it makes you happy. They struck gold with Eddie Redmayne, he could have easily carried a miniseries where Newt focuses on a different Beast every episode. It could have been charming, whimsical and expanded on the Harry Potter lore.
Instead we got the action of the last Harry Potter movies without the lead-up. You don't feel for the characters, because you don't know them, you don't care for the world, because it's already chaos, and you don't care how it ends, because, guess what, Harry Potter comes after it, so you kinda already know. The only good things about the Fantastic Beasts films were Eddie Redmayne and Mads Mikkelsen, but sadly they just weren't given enough to work with to actually save the series.
"While Rowling wasn't writing high literature, she was excellent at world building."
JK Rowling? Excellent at world building? Man, her entire IP was standing on Hogward. That's like the only thing about Harry Potter: the school with the teenager in the cool colored coded house that sort you according to your personnality.
The rest of the wizarding world is incredibly weak and underdevelopped.
@@johnwotek3816 Hogwarts isn't all of it, but it's the most of it, agreed. And that was enough to inspire people to the point where adults still put their house in their dating app bio and wish for their Hogwarts letter of acceptance
I'm not saying she's a genius, but credit where credit is due
It's Star Wars with shitty lightsabers.
And I'm not saying that as a hater. I do love the Wizarding world. But like you mentioned, if you take the world building out of it, it's your classic good vs evil story. And a lot of it, is incredibly similar to Star Wars. Or at least the first trilogy of it.
The downfall of the franchise is very sad to see. Guarantee within 10 years we have a legacy sequel
but plot twist: Draco’s daughter is the protagonist, she’s best friends with one of hermione and Ron’s kids (hilarious) and Albus Severus Potter is the villain because his father named him fucking Albus Severus
A legacy sequel with the original actors would make a lot of money though
@@maree4435 Draco has a son named Scorpious and he is best friends with Harry’s second son Albus in the cursed child.
While I dislike the Cursed Child for many reasons, I can see it getting adapted to a tv show later on down the line
@@nicholasscales4446 thanks for the info, it’s been awhile! the dynamic would be really cool to see regardless. And I agree, it would have been a much better adaptation than whatever Fantastic Beasts was
That play is somewhat of a legacy sequel.
The4thSnake did a video about the Wasted Plotential of the Fantastic Beasts Franchise, where his proposed fix was keeping the first film the same, having Crimes of Grindelwald be just about him and Dumbledore's relationship and their epic duel, then the 3rd film would be Quidditch through the Ages, essentially making the Wizarding World storyline an Anthology series.
I think your idea of filler is different than what a lot of people think filler is and why people hate it. Coming from anime, filler refers to things that weren't in the original manga or light novel an anime is based on, and is almost always of a significantly lower quality. It's this filler that people don't like, not a distinction between action and non-action.
Having J.K. Rowling as the screenwriter of the Fantastic Beasts movie in a billion dollar franchise was the biggest and most tragic mistake that this franchise has ever have. Can't believe they hire her who have no experience in screenwriting to write the damn script
I wouldn’t be surprised if her mindset was “if EL James could do it, so can I.” I can’t say I fault the logic, but after 50 Shades, Hollywood should’ve known better.
@@shippendales8543 the films do not just feel like books, they feel like HER books, which are not too well structured either.
@@nguyenvietanh2152 At least not after book 4, where it became abundantly clear she straight up refused to work with any kind of editor whatsoever.
Yeah because it’s not as if she didn’t invent the entire fucking universe and wrote all the back story and lord for it
There’s a good reason screenwriters start with shorts and don’t jump to 2.5h feature movies
The only thing I didn’t like about the conclusion of the HP series is the fact that Voldemort basically disintegrates. I think it would have been better for there to have been a body to show that despite everything he did and how scary he was, he was still only human. Not to mention the fact that the last time he just vanished like that he ended up still being alive. I wouldn’t trust it if I didn’t know better
In the book he does die like a normal person leaving a dead body behind, although in a kinda convoluted way, so I guess the writers for the movie said "fuck it, it's easier if he just disintegrates".
If you look at it the other way around, it make sense there as well. Like, after everything, every atrocities Voldemort has done and the abomination he has become, he is far from being a human but not in a good way like he was some sort of a angel. He doesn't deserve a peaceful human death and proper burial, he was a nightmare or darkness that just disappeared and then the sun rose.
@@stephenblack5425 idk man I think the general idea of leaving a body behind is precisely that after all, he's still just a mortal who couldn't face death with dignity. Plus like op mentioned people need to see a body for their peace of mind lol.
Him leaving behind a body doesn’t fit to his backstory. Since he basically shed his humanity by splitting his soul into multiple horcruxes.
@@NerfsDJ you haven't read the books. he does leave a body.
Best scene in Harry Potter is the zoomed in shot of his face as he rides the Firebolt into the camera. So good
I dont think the franchise is dead. the success of Hogward Legacy clearly show that there are still people who love Harry Potter. the only problem is that JK seem to no longer realized the reason why people love it in the first place. I dont think she will ever become broke. Hogward Legacy, Universal Studio, and every merchandise from Harry Potter will always keep her rich. but I dont think we can expect any more great story coming from JK. she simply caught lightning in the bottle, and can not re create the miracle a second time. let hope many others creative mind will be able to get the right to expand the franchise in her stead.
I didn’t watch fantastic beasts because it’s not hogwarts. The reason Harry Potter caught my eye was because we watched a boy in a bad home who experienced a new world. I was in awe when I saw the castle.
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A lighthearted mini-series about Newt and Jacob travelling and exploring different cultures and traditions around the world and their magical beasts sounds amazing. I think they've struck gold with Newt, he was an incredibly interesting protagonist and I loved his charming quirky weirdness, and from what I've heard, other people loved him too. It's such a shame that he simply didn't have a place in the Dumbledore/Grindelwald plotline, and we most definitely won't see more of him.The only moments I personally considered engaging in the latter 2 movies were of Newt interacting with his beasts or the nostalgic callbacks to Hogwarts.
Rowling is no doubt a problematic and controversial figure, and I hope that if there are to be any other HP projects in the future, she realises the impact of her shortcomings, but who knows, she wasn't able to do so even after all this time and only seems to grow more arrogant.
That mini series sounds so good. I really loved Newt in the first movie, so it was a huge shame that the plot of the last two movies had nothing to do with him.
Given what Rowling has written about the world and different cultures, it's probably best to not go anywhere near there.
@@mechanomics2649 yeah I wouldn't trust her with any new project at this point.. the world of Harry Potter has grown beyond what Rowling has to offer and it's really sad to see as she goes out of her way to butcher the story we all adored as kids.
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Why are teanswomen so obsessed with invading our spaces and freak out when we don't want them there? Their rights are not above our rights.
But what is a woman?
Thank you so much for saying that the main core of Harry Potter is love. It's been so frustrating over the years seeing people think that the key to the HP franchise's success was just being a stale story about magic and wizards and Harry being a blank self-insert character in the books. This video is the first time I've seen a youtuber understand why I at least fell in love with the series as a child.
I've stopped being invested in the franchise after cursed child came out and I do agree with the criticism people have had of the books since then. I also don't agree with many of the statements JKR has made about the original books and about other creators online, nor do I agree with whatever fucking direction she wanted to take fantastic beasts in. However, I also find it disingenuous when people make long videos on the original series of books or movies and completely ignore how love and friendship had always been the core that made fans so invested in the series and books.
This next part is more of a guess on my part because I have little idea on what's going on with Hogwarts Legacy. Had the fandom not fallen in love with the characters who viewed Hogwarts as their home, I severely doubt we would have grown to be so attached to Hogwarts ourselves. Personally, I think one of the reasons Hogwarts Legacy sold so well is because of how dear Hogwarts was to the fandom. It was a place they spent years with and a place many children who are now adults wanted to go to for so many years. It's almost like a promise had finally been fulfilled after years of waiting.
Edit: I really don't think the franchise can be "saved" if the OG trio came back and I don't really want them to after reading about the horrible time Daniel Radcliffe had filming The Half-Blood Prince. The series imo is over. JKR had her chance to show that she could expand the lore of the wizarding world with the FB movies and she failed spectacularly to make most people interested.
The Fantastic Beasts concept was so good. It would have been a great adventure seeing Newt save magical creatures around the world, maybe teaming up with various professors from the other Wizarding schools in order to start an official “Magizoology” field. The entire plot of Gindelwald vs Dumbledore could have just been a subplot that gets expanded upon in a later but altogether separate films. Perhaps in order to tie them together a plot about how Wizarding poachers are collecting magical beast resources in order to prepare for the global Wizarding war.
It would have been relatively easy to work the theme of "love" into the Fantastic Beasts movies; If Rowling had actually had the spine to do something with the alleged Dumbledore/Grindelwald relationship.
Exactly, why not write that epic lovers to enemies story that she hinted at? Well, China, that's why.
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We don't need woke in these stories...they were meant for kids not adults
@@OldPirate1718 Kids need moral lessons about tolerance and inclusivity all the more, not less. So they don't turn out like you, when they grow up.
She doesn't have the balls. She'll happily blame librarians in the UK and other such nonescence while disregarding the fact that such behaviour from the libraries is illegal in the UK. She'll blame anyone except herself
Focus was the biggest flaw of the Fantastic Beasts franchise. The reason why Harry Potter is so beloved is because we got to see the Wizarding world through Harry's eyes and see his relationships and friendships grow. With Newt, we got one film and he was quickly discarded soon after for the legacy characters.
All Fantastic Beasts benefitted was Newt finding new beasts and exploring the untouched areas of the Wizarding world. Like I can imagine him interacting with the Centaurs to the mermaids to see if a creature exists.
To be fair though, if we get stories of Newt travelling around the world searching for Beasts, that means JK Rowling has to *write* world building on those places he visits as well, and her world building on places other than Britain is... Questionable. At best. Just look at the name she gives Japan's magic school.
If they do that, JK will need a team of researchers with her to help not make those places an absolute caricature and cause people to start raising pitchforks for representing their locations badly.
I think we learned that if you want a good villain you should just cast Mads from the start
I miss filler episodes. Buffy had so many filler episodes yet those are some of my favorites. The time spent watching well over 100 episodes made those characters SO endearing. By the time you finish season seven, they are your friends.
i would have loved a movie just about Newt and his quest on finding rare animals a home and the zoology in general. mix in some evil hunter or whatever and the first movie would have been a lot better already in my opinion
I would LOVED to have seen a trio of single biopic style films on the marauders, Snape and the first wizarding war. Fantastic beasts could have been a fun spin of as a singular film if it had a PLOT like you said.
They should have taken us back to the life of Harry Potters parents at Hogwarts, all that drama between snape and lilly , taken us back to Tom Riddle times and ended it with showing us how riddle killed Harrys parents
You mentioned the reveal of Hogwarts shot. That scene probably has the most interesting story out of any shot from any Harry Potter movie: When Columbus and his editor Richard Francis-Bruce, were trying to find ways to shorten the movie a little and part of that included trying to shorten that scene. John Williams, in all his wisdom, will always take a rough cut over a Final Cut. He went away, worked on the music, and when it came time for the scoring sessions, he pulled a rabbit out of his hat and made a scene that, without music, isn’t interesting and made it interesting. Chris and Richard turned to each other and basically said “Screw trying to shorten this part of the movie, that is staying in the movie unedited.” It’s one of a multitude of reasons why I’m thankful that John Williams was the first composer to work on the series. When any Harry Potter fan thinks about the music, you can always think about the stupendous work done by Patrick Doyle, Nicholas Hooper and Alexandre Desplat, who did phenomenal jobs in helping finish the story, musically, but it’s John music, especially the central leitmotif “Hedwig’s Theme”, that we all identify with as being the identifying music of Harry Potter.
Kloves did write 7 of the 8 movies, bowing out of OOTP and Michael Goldenberg, who was considered to be screenwriter before Kloves was chosen, stepped in and wrote the script.
I will defend these two things from all three Fantastic Beasts movies till the day I die: I do love Jude Law as Dumbledore and James Newton Howard’s music.
Thanks for this great video and spot-on analysis. I know the video is about the movies but I just wanted to mention that I'm sure the Cursed Child had a major impact on people's interest in the Fantastic Beasts franchise. The screenplay for CC was released in the UK July 2016 and the first FB movie was released in Nov 2016. HP fans were so excited for the release of the CC screenplay but upon reading it, it was like a gut-punch for many fans, me included. Well-established HP lore torn to shreds, the adult versions of the trio completely unrecognisable, ridiculously implausible central storyline and repeated re-hashing of HP themes with nothing new of value added. I was like "What the hell is this?!" and couldn't believe was that it was signed off by JKR, who didn't write it but planned the story with the writers and approved the script. That's before you get to the cash-grab aspect of creating a four-act play divided into two separate performances. My point is, after that I believe many fans like me felt rather wary of FB and as it turns out, our concerns were justified. The FB movies were all style over substance. JKR clearly doesn't seem to be that bothered about the quality of her output anymore or is so deluded about her own abilities that she keeps happily churning out sub-par content without considering the critical and fans' feedback.
The other problem is, no-one wants their enjoyment of a fandom to become a moral conundrum but sadly, that's what JKR has turned it into. Unlike many authors, it's impossible to separate the HP/FB franchise from JKR's personal views/campaigning because of the financial benefit she constantly receives from it. She has even said on Twitter that, when people accuse her of alienating whole sections of the HP fandom, the royalty cheques make her feel better. And this coming from someone who created a series about acceptance and fighting against prejudice.
Anyway, rant over. I'm just very sad about the whole thing. I think they should just leave it where it is and not produce any further movies but I imagine they will eventually 🙄
"Darker" doesn't always mean "More mature".
To this day I am so confused to why they didn't choose marauderers as the spinoff, in the fandom itself, they are just as popular and the original trio reallyy.
Because the Marauders are bullies, and don’t make good heroes if you look at them closely. The hero of that generation is Snape, but he is a tragic hero, who fell into darkness and had to fight his way back out. That sort of story is no fun for kids.
Because these films are supposed to be light family films, the marauders were Snapes bullies, that was a big part of Sirius and James childhood at Hogwarts.
@@bitten4life Snape gave as good as he got, and only got a "hero" plotline because JKR loved Alan Rickman.
@@janach1305 gonna have to disagree, Snape was a bully towards children. If someone bullies you when you’re a kid, you don’t join terrorists, kill a bunch of people, develop an unhealthy obsession with a woman, cause her death and then hate their child. Yeah a real hero 😂
@@olivej445 I knew someone would bring this up. Certainly, anyone who does anything less than perfect as an adult deserves to be punished retroactively as a child. 🙄
With your final question of the video about the original trio coming back, I think it would only work if JKR keeps her hands entirely off the project. Because, lest we forget, even before the current shitshow with trans people, she was retconning characters into being gay, or black, or apparently having the wizards shit themselves instead of having toilets. She finished it with the Deathly Hallows and it should stay that way for her involvement.
okay but to be fair about the toilets, that's literally not what she said. She simply said that before modern plumbing, wizards could relieve themselves in basically any location and then vanish it. In case you're unaware, that was pretty much how ALL people relieved themselves prior to plumbing except you had to go into a secluded place to do it, and have some way to bury or get rid of it. Hell, look up cases of people crapping in corners of the Palace of Versailles. No one EVER was saying wizards just shit their pants whenever they wanted, completely against all accepted societal rules, because #magic lol
She didn't talk shit about trans people. All she did was defending women's rights. We don't want Lia Thomas incidents alike to become a norm.
she was never even being transphobic
@@ratrat9241 her comments are transphobic and use the same terminology and ‘fears’ that anti-trans politicians/commentators use. She’s falsely using ‘pro-women’ imagery as a mask. When ppl in the trans community are saying it’s bad, believe them and not non-trans ppl. That’s not up to you to decide if they feel attacked.
@@PenguinTuxJunction i do believe they feel attacked. i do not believe it’s justified. misunderstanding and overreaction are things that exist. her comments were about specific incidents/problems that we can’t just ignore
The thing that always bothered me most about Harry Potter was that it had all those great ideas and things that haven't been there before but it was rarely explained properly how those things came into existence or how they work. In the original HP series, there was a ton of stuff that could've been explored in spin off films or books.
There are so many things I was interested in, like what different spells exist, how do you "invent" a new spell. In the books we learn about very few spells but we literally have a library with hundreds of magic books. Then there are topics like, how was Hogwarts created, how did creatures like dementors come into existence (we have some info about that now, but still), what do wizard societies abroad look like, what kinds of different magic exists etc. So there is a lot. Even background stories for a lot of the characters would be interesting.
So when the "fantastic beasts" was announced I was excited because I found that this was actually an interesting aspect and it had a lot of potential but as it was said, in the end it was barely about the beasts anymore and just once again devolved into the classic good vs evil trope.
Mads Mikkelsen is really perfect for his role. Jude Law and him are the only good thing of the Fantastic Beast series.
The hair was long in "Goblet of Fire" because the actors were told not to cut it before filming for the hair stylists. When the director saw them after they got back from holiday, he said not to change a thing. This forced them to keep their hair long for the rest of the movie.
I think some people fear filler because of anime. Whole season? Just filler episodes? Nightmare.
This is the reason the internet feels this way about filler. Anime actually ADDS filler that the original creator didn't make because they caught up to the source material and needed to buy some time. That is the worst kind of filler. Downtime that the source material intended to give breathing room is the actually good kind of filler the video creator was thinking of.
I was going to make this exact comment.
Not even just anime. Filler is bad bc it's NETWORKS padding out episodes when TV revolved around weekly releases all year.
Most anime and non anime simply run far too long.
The whole irony is that usually action is filler, just worse than what people think of as filler, which is something that actually tells us something about the plot and characters. Watch the Battle of the Five Armies to know what I mean. Or actually, don't watch it, since it is horrible movie.
And yes, there is a difference between adding content just in between because you run out of source material and just adding more... source material in between. The hobbit is the example of former. But LOTR extended edition just has more of the book, and it is good
IMO the Fantastic Beasts movie should've been a single movie in the style of a Steve Irwin "Crocodile Hunter" episode with a competent animal wrangler documenting the different magical creatures he comes across.
That or a mini-series in a comedic "wizard mockumentary" style with a pretty competent but bumbling zoologist guiding a documentary team through his (not always safe) encounters with different magical creatures. Very light and humerous.
Man, magic duels could be so complex and interesting, Transfigurations, Incantantions, etc, and instead is two people staring at each other intensively while saying abstolutely nothing.
JK kind of already dragged the Wizarding World into the mud when she made that tweet about wizards pooping their pants
"Made a Tweet that triggered me" - Twatter users 💀
@@Vinicantstopcrying did you even read his comment 💀
@@Vinicantstopcrying lol.. atleast read the comment
They also split book 7 in half for artistic reasons, to make the final battle more dramatic and a satisfying ending.
The problem is is that Rowling is a book author which is completely different than screen writing
The more I think about it the sadder it makes me. Could you guys imagine an actual proper series of films with Mads as Grindelwald and Jude Law as Dumbledore? They’re both incredible actors, and there are so many incredible screenwriters out there who could’ve made this a drastic improvement upon the Harry Potter films
I actually kind of liked the first fantastic beasts film it was a cool new story set in a universe that we were already familiar with then when the crimes of grindelwald came out I knew where they were going it wasn’t gonna be about newt or fantastic beasts just a prequel about Dumbledore and grindelwald that sets up the original series
I like the 3rd, but the 2nd is just floating there going nowhere.
13:27 “filler is not a bad thing” - so true to me! That’s why these days I much more enjoy slice of life k-dramas and animes because they spend a lot of time with fillers to enhance character development and story immersion 😊
Filler is a bad thing, but I think both of you are confusing filler for build-up. Filler is useless screen time during which nothing relevant happens, while build-up is a point of low-emotion used to empower high-emotion scenes later on.
@@NoneNullAnd0 Exactly. True filler, by it's definition, is not good. At most, it's a guilty pleasure.
Filler is definitely bad in movies specifically. Movies should have a good story arc and be able to be good as standalone products, I do not want to watch 2 hours of filler just to make me "more excited" for the actual story i wanted to watch. Every scene matters, every line of dialogue should lead to something, Movies are not books
Really, Half Blood Prince could've done with being split as well.
"The first movie didn't age well"
My dude, are you kidding me? It's easily one of the best aged movies maybe ever. It has potential to forever be considered a classic for children, for how innocent and earnest it was, even quirky. I marathoned the series again not 2 months ago and was appalled by how well it was executed.
The only thing I can nitpick about the movie is the fact that Harry didn’t cast a single spell the entire movie… and hermione called him a “great wizard” 😂
They should’ve made a short series about Voldemort’s early years when he was still Tom riddle at school. That’s what I want to see
honestly it probably wouldn't have been that interesting. Just a bigoted bully getting progressively meaner and meaner and more manipulative and controlling and having a gang of bullies around him for seven years. there's nothing redeeming or interesting about seeing a bully become an all-powerful monster who murders people. There are so many side stories for HP that would be interesting but this one ain't it hahah
The tried this in the Star Wars universe with the prequels, the story of Anakin. The results are mixed at best. Hard to center your series around a protagonist who gets progressively more evil.
Maybe J. K. Rowling wasn't confident about writing a world tour of what Fantastic Beast would have been had Newt travel around the world encountering new beast for his book but also solving the mystery in each place he visited. We would have gotten a bigger view of the Harry Potter world IMO.
Just some fun trivia:
apparently, the harry potter actors just let their hair grow between movies, so that the people doing the costumes and all had something to work with. Usually, they'd get cut down significantly, but Mike Newell, the director of goblet of fire, just went "yeah thats great, we'll keep it that way." Thats why everyone has long hair.
I wish Rowling would’ve written fantastic beast into books first. Then turn them into movies.
I think, somewhere along the way including the original series, the wizarding world aesthetic changed as well. I miss the kooky wizarding world fashion etc that’s more prominent in the books and first couple of movies. The FB franchise just looses it completely, through the muggle clothing, even the world it’s set in. I think that looses the magic of the established Wizarding World. There are times throughout the FB franchise where they could have gone full wizarding world aesthetic, as they’re not in muggle presence. Like when they’re in the speak easy in the first movie. Costuming is a big part of the visual side of world building, and I think that’s part of what’s wrong with the FB franchise, personally.
7 prt one is the best movie in the series in my opinion. The atmosphere of hopelessness and despair, and having to persevere. through that is so good. Very post apocalyptic vibe.
I looove that one, it’s in 2nd place to me next to Azkaban, I can’t stand it when people say it’s bad it’s a dramatic masterpiece.
Yeah it was a great vibe, I loved it.
Honestly the only one out of the 8 movies I genuinely disliked was Half Blood Prince. Only good part of the movie was Tom's flashbacks and Dumbeldore's team up with Harry
@@Johnny.1994 OOF they really dropped the ball on that one, trying to make it a Twilight esque teen romance 🤮
@@uhuhuh1966 Agree, they prioritized twilight romance over storytelling. This was a problem in Goblet of fire too but it was generally a much better film than HBP
I forgot that I had watched crimes of grindleworld movie until I saw clips from it in this video that I recognized. That's how confusing the movie is
Ezra should’ve been dropped. What a freak.
13:07 Deathly Hallows Part 1 is actually my favorite of the series. It humanizes and isolates the characters and in a really interesting way. It’s also the only film to not take place at Hogwarts.
You truly felt the impact this journey has had on Ron, Harry, and Hermione.
I agree
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Very good analysis and depth into this video, Defo gave it a like!
Had Fantastic Beasts just been an intentional one-off movie like Rogue One I feel like we'd have a different Harry Potter franchise right now.
My main issue with splitting the Deathly Hollows into two parts was that it was the trend that Hollywood was doing at the time it was released. Every major IP like the Hunger Games and even Twilight was doing it. My wife had never seen any of the Harry Potter films until a year ago when we binged them all in a weekend. Funny enough, she had the same reaction I did to the Deathly Hollows part one. A lot of it could've been cut and they could've just made a really long movie with an intermission for the final film.
This is not just exclusive to Harry Potter. When it comes to the success of major franchises, the most important thing found are characters and their relationships and themes. Then the world building comes second. It's how Harry Potter or ATLA have become timeless because the themes within those characters being so strong will forever be relevant.
I've been wanting a high budget show set in the wizarding world. My pitch is a show set in modern day following an auror and their adventures. In my mind this could revitalise the franchise kind of like how the mandalorian gave fresh energy to starwars. This modern setting and auror lead opens it up to bring legacy characters back if need be i.e harry potter seeing he becomes an auror later in life. I also think a show would give us more time with characters then the movies can provide.
I dont see any future HP media straying away from Hogwarts again.
@@Jirizo1 I think if they had more of a research element to it, then it would be great.
13:29 I second this. I miss the 20 episodes seasons of shows and long anime seasons too. You get to have more time with the characters.
What I like about Hogwarts Legacy that Fantastic Beasts maybe could’ve really done with is that it’s perfectly balanced in terms of tone & feel in that you get all the major recognisable elements of the wizarding world such as locations, spells & lore etc to pull on your nostalgia strings but it’s all been majorly revamped & embellished to provide a real breath of fresh air and a more unique experience from the films, but most importantly (although I’m only halfway through it so couldn’t say for sure) the story has a lot of intrigue and is clearly going somewhere which as you brilliantly made out Fantastic Beasts does not
Also in terms of the big and small screen even, I do believe they could another movie or an HBO series but have it from a brand new writer & director to the franchise that still know it inside & out and don’t need to go to J.K. for any guidance, a bit like with Star Wars what Jon Favreau & Dave Filoni did with The Mandalorian and Tony Gilroy with Rouge One & Andor
Ngl i liked that they split deathly hallows in two since it would feel rushed if all of it was forced into one movie and it helps the battle of hogwarts to be longer and better. In the book it was kinda short and underwhelming so i was glad the movie made it longer and added more to it
I feel like Fantastic Beast should've been primarily about the Fantastic Beast themselves. If I were to rewrite it I would make it an exploration of the various magical creatures in the Harry Potter universe. Maybe the villains would be Muggle poachers who got their hands on Magic infused weapons given to them by a rouge wizard.
I like Harry Potter but it doesn't have a depth you can revisit again throughout your life and gain a deeper appreciation for. You could make the argument it was a children's book but Star Wars was for children too. It's like comparing Axe Body Spray to fancy cologne. It smells good at first but quickly just wears off and doesn't mix with your body chemistry like fancy cologne.
If you wanna look at Fantastic Beasts as a failure that’s fine, but to even suggest that the Harry Potter Franchise has “dwindled away” is so far off the mark, the franchise has only gotten stronger in the last decade and even inspite of controversy and the recent sales of Hogwarts Legacy proves that; it isn’t just; “doing well” it’s one of the highest grossing games in recent years and that’s just within 4 weeks of being released! And I was in Universal Studios a couple of weeks ago during one of the quietest parts of the year and the Harry Potter world sections were by far the busiest parts of the park. You can say the fanfare has died down, but just because you say something doesn’t mean its true and that could not be further from the truth.
At this moment they should just reboot Harry Potter into a tv series and explore the unexplored..and perhaps do a better Ginny Harry relationship and give Ron the required screentime and dialogues that made him so likeable in the books
Dumbledore should get his own movie franchise. For being "the most powerful wizard", he didn't get to do a lot in the original movie series.
Did you not see that absolute power move he did in Half Blood Prince??
@@thegoodreylo4749 yeah, showing one scene is same as showing entire storyline about his own life and adventures as the most powerful wizard.
@@vdiitd Sometimes it’s better to just leave things mysterious. Dumbledore’s character was done greatly in the films.
It’s like Yoda.
He was already cool enough in the Original Trilogy but then The Prequels made the stupid decision to give him a Lightsaber and have him do all those dumb flips.
It would've made more sense to split the fifth book in two parts but....well, hollywood
I just wished to see the life and lies of Albus Dumbledore:
1st movie- He meets Grindelwald and the two fall apart
2nd movie- Grindelwald's reign of terror with Dumbledore setting up a crew to try and stop him indirectly
3rd movie- Grindelwald becomes too strong and kills so many that Dumbledore goes on a hunt for him.
Is that too much to ask?
Great job man. Quite possible the best video essay I have seen so far. I agree 100% about all your points. I personally knew that the fantastic beasts movies were doomed since they announced a 5 movie plan with no actual plan.. Their biggest mistake was that they got greedy and instead of giving us a well planned schedule they rushed it without knowing where to go with the script. Like they started with FB and said hey we will improvise down the road as we filming. They could have made a plan and produce a Dumbledore/Grindelwald standalone movie trilogy better paced and better scripted, with a standalone Fantastic Beasts movie. Also an HBO Max tv series which partners with Warner Bros for a Tom Riddle rise to power/First wizarding war or the History of the 4 Howgard's founders. They had so much content to take advantage of and they fucked up. The only solution I can think of is finishing FB with a fourth and final movie to tie loose ends and take the L like gentlemen. Then continue with a TV HBO max show with one of the projects I mentioned. But I have not faith at all in them since there are rumors recently that they want a complete reboot/remake of the Harry Potter movies with different actors. Their second option according to the rumors is a Cursed child movie adaptation. Yikes
I loved FB1, especially its unique protagonist and his eccentric relationship with the world both as a muggle and as a magizoologist, AND his almost-over-the-top loving relationship with his "fantastic beasts."
I found CoG & SoD disappointing first and foremost because they sidelined Newt. I agree obviously Rowling was looking to tell the Dumbles/Grindles story, and I understand your suggestion that instead the series should've done away with Newt after the first movie and focused just on the Dumbles/Grindles dynamic.
But I think there's an even more interesting alternative that's all the sadder they didn't go for.
Use FB1 as the springboard, or first movie in the series, for *two* series. Have it split into, on the one hand, yes, the Dumbles/Grindles story, and on the other... honestly I picture a series of almost Hercule-Poirot or Benoit-Blanc mysteries where each one is a separate installment set in a different corner of the world and basically the only recurring character IS Newt.
To my mind, that's a golden concept, and a better opportunity than anything else that came before to nigh-limitlessly expand and worldbuild in Rowling's Wizarding World. There would have to be some loose throughlines through the series and probably a handful of other recurring characters, but the general idea would be to invoke those sorts of mysteries, only using that framing as a vehicle for the audience to join Newt on his adventures and learn about Fantastic Beasts ALONGSIDE him. The end of the series could be him writing the textbook.
That done, a CoG or SoD with Newt as a side character COULD STILL work. Both series could be stories playing out simultaneously, with loose influences in one on the other, and potential for crossovers. It'd have the additional benefit of producing more money for the studios and being something the fans could really sink their teeth into. It'd be an MCU-*esque* approach, but limiting the scope of the crossovers to mitigate the whole "it's all connected, all 47,628 properties, and if you don't consume them all you won't understand #47,629, fuck you pay me" aspect.
Newt as a spy or undercover agent of Dumbledore's for example, that maybe, frankly, Grindelwald never even meets or knows about -- Dumbledore's secret ace up his sleeve -- Is something I wish could've been explored a lot more, too. I think there's a very realistic and grounded approach to espionage that could be applied with the FB films following Newt's global travels documenting "fantastic beasts" while conveniently completing a small sideplot mission for Dumbles, without carrying the actual baggage of the war. In turn, those small missions of Newt's would have plenty of major implications in the Grindles/Dumbles war story, where the "baggage" of the war actually has the space it needs to be properly explored.
In turn, the brewing conflicts could serve as a poignant backdrop for the otherwise lighter and more joyful FB films, where Newt's travels occasionally require him to be mindful of that. For a socially awkward quirky dork like him it could've made for a really interesting way to explore his character and create more serious tension in otherwise mostly lighthearted adventure stories, I think.
EDIT: Lol I wrote this comment halfway through watching the video; Later on, you suggested something similar haha
You lost me at using Roundhead Johnson's cringe pseudo who dunnits
@@yrooxrksvi7142 Ooh you're cool ain'tcha? 😂
I believe there is some easy fixes that could’ve saved the fantastic beast series.
1. Have only the first film feature newt as the central protagonist and carry the fantastic beast name and have credence actually die in the end.
2. Have the second fully focus on Grindelwald as the main character. Actually show us his history and why he’s so notorious.
3. Have the third focus on Dumbledore and Grindelwald and their shared history. Get rid of the unbreakable vow because that was just silly and make it that instead Dumbledore simply can’t will himself to go against GG as an internal conflict is far more interesting than a literal spell preventing him.
4. The final films have these characters all reconvene and take down Grindelwald. Perhaps Newt and his friends use his unconventional methods and employ his beasts to disrupt Grindelwalds followers while Dumbledore takes down GG in the epic duel we’ve all heard about.
5. Possibly the most important of all, JK Rowling only works in the same advisory role as she did in the Harry Potter films.
Plot holes, very useful spells that disappeared from Fantastic Beasts to Harry Potter, every wizard or witch dressed as muggle (Dumbledore is a banker now) when in reality wizards haven't the slighest idea how a muggle dresses, Newt and Tina that act like a teen would do, when they're more than 30.
Dulbledore that knows about The Room Of Requirements when in reality he discovered it only in 1994 during The Goblet Of Fire.
Fawkes is the "HP bar" of Credence's remaining life but during The Hald Blood Prince, he did absolutely nothing with Dumbledore.
Dumbledore and Grindelwad did a blood pact so neither of them can attack the other, but somehow they managed to do it, resulting in Ariana death.
Wouldn't say the movie franchise is dead. They just made a bad movie series. It could rebound if the next movie series is good.
I wouldn’t say the franchise is dead, hogwarts Legacy just proved there can still be quality entertainment within it
Oh, absolutely. I'm over the moon with the way it's performing considering all the BS going on around it.
It's just an overdramatic statement for video purposes lol
Harry Potter will probably not die for a long time to come. Will definitely outlive the author herself. Give it a few decades and they'll do an entire reboot of the official movies.
And with how true everything in this video is, I can only hope they'll go about it very carefully.
@@dende3842 I mean but by your definition wouldn’t that make the series dead though lol? He was kinda saying that movies dropped under the umbrella after the original series flopped and tbh a video game was the only thing that could carry it forward realistically. And that’s because the game looks good I think if it remotely looked average or terrible it could have tanked the very same. Of course classics never die but how does rebooting the same movies count for you?
@@samt7676 No? Just because they choose to reboot something doesn't mean it has to die off first. It's simply something that WILL eventually happen, whether we like it or not. I can only hope that it comes out of love more than greed (*cough Fantastic Beasts*)
And I think it goes without saying that Hogwarts Legacy wouldn't have done nearly as well if it wasn't good. I mean, it did have the bonus of being an open world Harry Potter game which has been in demand for a decade now, but still, it's a good game even for non-Harry Potter fans and that's when it secured its success.
The reason why Fantastic Beasts failed is because it's the complete opposite. The bigger of a HP fan you are, the less you can tolerate it.
@@dende3842 well sorry let me rephrase. When I think of something dying as my personal definition , I don’t mean it has zero replay value. Rather I mean that it’s hard to see anything else branching off and coming from the umbrella. For that reason I wouldn’t count a remake. I’m saying if there was a movie coming out about Snape or Dumbledore, unless your a hardcore fan that might struggle in the box office. And what I meant in regards to Hogwarts Legacy was I think there is a lot of skepticism regarding movie/books turned into games, so if they didn’t promote it so heavily and show how good the gameplay was, I don’t think people are flocking to it like they do every time a COD comes out regardless of quality. And finally I think the Fantastic Beasts flopped because it was poorly written from the start. I think J.K Rowling ran out of ideas after the series and for someone to reboot this Harry Potter world in general I think a more talented writer would need to come in
Basically people only cared about about Howarts, not the Harry Potter world outside of the school.
Deathly Hallows needed two parts. I wouldn’t class Part 1 as filler. In the book the trio (and duo) travelling around with the tent is my favourite part; it really sets in how f***** they are, and how alone
The tent parts of the book and film are the most beautiful parts of the franchise, you see them, laugh, cry, hate and love. The characters really go through the motions.
I wouldn't call JKR directing her twitter followers to harass people who point out the harm she's doing political, I'd call that JKR being a mean, spiteful person. The fact that I'm worried about posting this in case someone sees it, gets upset, and decides to start harassing me, should probably also highlight the sort of vitriol she seems to have no problem with existing in her fan base...
yeah strange that he is downplaying literal facism and blatant transphobia. she didn't just post a few silly tweets, she is funding anti trans organizations and writing transphobic books, she even calls herself a terf. she openly believes trans people don't deserve the right to simply exist. annoying how this guy just boils it down to "politics"
Honestly that’s why, especially after having watched Jessie Gender’s videos, I’m trying to distance myself from the series (which is honestly very flawed by itself in terms of world building and how none of the societal issues get solved or addressed by the end). Good thing I don’t like to buy things, because I certainly would not want to buy anything with Rowling’s name attached. If anyone tries to harass you, they’re just dealing with entrenched denial.
Yeah, I wasn't expecting him to be so disingenuous with the way he worded it at the beginning of the video.
The transpeople who want to go to women only spaces are the problem. Most women don't want them there but they have no respect for that.
And I think you can't change your gender, these people just have another mental disorder, and are oftern evil bullies
@@CordeliaWagner Most transgender people I've seen here on UA-cam are very kind and considerate. Jesse Gender has quite a few videos going into great detail about the problems the transgender community is going through, which has only been exasperated by JKR. I highly recommend checking out Jesse's videos since she can explain it much better than I can. She can get a little passionate about the material in some of her videos, but she never directs any malice or ill will towards her viewers. The fact is that transgender people do exist and are people just like everyone else. They deserve to be treated with the same dignity and respect as any person and that's sadly not happening. I'm not saying that transgender people can't be bullies, there's a difference between that and responding quite justifiably to the mistreatment, abuse, and violence that is being done to the transgender community.
Main problem with filler is in my opinion when an entire TV series episode is dedicated to it. You wait a week to see the plot develop further, you expect your patience to be rewarded with the world developing, but instead you have to wait yet another week to get some genuine escapism from your actual life. In film it's not so bad, though the middle thied of Avatar 2 was painful inertia.
It's definitely a problem when it feels like the overall story grinds to a screeching halt, but I think it's important to establish what the characters' lives are actually like and what kind of things might happen in the world around them outside of the main plot stuff.