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HP: Order of the Phoenix comments
Okay, having seen Order of the Phoenix, I finally feel like comfortable saying this.
I am a Harry/Luna shipper.
Whew! That's been on my chest for -- like four years now, I guess.
First, I am not one of those people who disliked the fifth book. I never cried about caps lock zomg, or about Harry's emo/general stupidity. In fact, I totally approved of the fifth book. I loved, loved, the build-up at the school: the fear and resentment, the tension building, the climactic explosion of the twins's departure, the growing rebellion... Good stuff.
I felt like the movie underplayed the worst possible part it could have underplayed: Sirius. It cut out so many scenes with him, so much of his story and emotion, and then underplayed his death. In the original, his death was an anticlimax -- he was proud and confident, and having an intense duel with Bellatrix, and because of his own stupidity, he got himself killed. It was horrible. Here it was kind of like... There was total chaos going on too fast and none of it made any sense (what even HAPPENED at this point?) and he was dueling Lucius (why?! his duel with Bellatrix was all significant!) and then she sort of like, surprise-attacked him into the veil. It took away the senseless horror of his death and just left it feeling kind of rushed and... senseless. Less like "--Oh god" and more like "Oops?"
Really liked the tone, and newspaper-reel changes! Tonks was good for what little of her there was, Umbridge was great, and Luna was perfect. ♥ In fact, I think the directors had a crush on her or something? She had a lot of close-ups and stuff. But that's fine, because she was perfect.
And I hope that someone, somewhere, after watching this movie, also thought up the Harry/Luna ship. As far as I know, I am the only people in the whole internets that likes this pairing. Ron/Luna I've seen. Ginny/Luna and Hermione/Luna, even. But never Harry/Luna. What.
Whew! That's been on my chest for -- like four years now, I guess.
First, I am not one of those people who disliked the fifth book. I never cried about caps lock zomg, or about Harry's emo/general stupidity. In fact, I totally approved of the fifth book. I loved, loved, the build-up at the school: the fear and resentment, the tension building, the climactic explosion of the twins's departure, the growing rebellion... Good stuff.
I felt like the movie underplayed the worst possible part it could have underplayed: Sirius. It cut out so many scenes with him, so much of his story and emotion, and then underplayed his death. In the original, his death was an anticlimax -- he was proud and confident, and having an intense duel with Bellatrix, and because of his own stupidity, he got himself killed. It was horrible. Here it was kind of like... There was total chaos going on too fast and none of it made any sense (what even HAPPENED at this point?) and he was dueling Lucius (why?! his duel with Bellatrix was all significant!) and then she sort of like, surprise-attacked him into the veil. It took away the senseless horror of his death and just left it feeling kind of rushed and... senseless. Less like "--Oh god" and more like "Oops?"
Really liked the tone, and newspaper-reel changes! Tonks was good for what little of her there was, Umbridge was great, and Luna was perfect. ♥ In fact, I think the directors had a crush on her or something? She had a lot of close-ups and stuff. But that's fine, because she was perfect.
And I hope that someone, somewhere, after watching this movie, also thought up the Harry/Luna ship. As far as I know, I am the only people in the whole internets that likes this pairing. Ron/Luna I've seen. Ginny/Luna and Hermione/Luna, even. But never Harry/Luna. What.