Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Harry Potter: The Deathly Hallows Pt. 2

This movie is the final chapter of Harry Potter's fight against the evil villain, Lord Voldemort. This movie starts off at a safe house hidden away from the world, to plan their next attack. Harry along with his two most faithful friends, Ron and Hermione, need to destroy all seven of the evil objects (Horcruxes) to defeat Voldemort. There are only 4 of these Horcruxes left to find and destroy to defeat Voldemort, but he is closing in quickly and there is not much time left. Harry goes through many obstacles such as, riding an angered dragon to escape, and facing Voldemort's army of wizards and other dark creatures. He starts to find all of these hidden items and begins to realize that he is one of the Horcruxes and must sacrifice himself for the good of the rest of the world. Harry lets Voldemort kill him, but little did the villain know that Harry had a special item called the resurrection stone to bring himself back to life. As Harry awoke from the dead he battled Voldemort, while another one of his friends, Neville, destroyed the last Horcrux which was Voldemort's snake. After this long battle, Harry and the forces of good triumphed over evil. A couple large themes in this movie are hope and good vs. evil.
The special effects in this movie were done very well. The special effects are necessary to create all the magical spells that take place. There was a great amount of CGI in this movie that was also done well, for instance, the trolls, giant spiders, and animated warrior statues that were fighting in the main battle. The score that is played throughout the movie always matched the action that was in the movie and intensified each part. Also the beginning sequence of the every Harry Potter has the same song/rhythm played every time which helps keep the continuity between the movies. The soundscape needed to be on point for this type of movie to create all the sounds of a battle and spells, and i think it succeeded. The director did a good job of executing the camera shots to build tension or create an emotional moment. As Harry is about to sacrifice himself and finds the resurrection stone the camera dollys in slowly on harry to create that emotional moment of confronting death. Also, most of the movie was shot in a dark setting which matched up very well with the feel of the film.

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