HP7.5 ....uh .5?
Jul. 16th, 2011 01:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
goseawardSaw HP 7.5 in a finished cut today. I already reviewed it but I thought I would post differences from that screener and the finished film, for people who are curious.
Okay. Biggest changes:
- In the screener, Snape's line about taking his tears to the pensieve was cut. I think it's clearer this way. Incidentally, that scene also had a tearless Alan Rickman face with a subtitle that said "A TEAR ROLLS GENTLY DOWN SNAPE'S FACE" which was a bit of a mood-killer, if amusing!
- The screener also didn't have Narcissa asking if Draco was alive. I suspect they were waiting on the Harry-is-alive revelation, only to realize that everybody in the theatre knows it already and this makes Narcissa's behavior clearer.
- The scene I liked so much with Harry just sitting and breathing, music-less, after the Pensieve scene where he learns he must die...was cut. :(
- Actual CGI. Voldemort dissolving was way cool, as was the shield slowly going over Hogwarts--those were unfinished or not present at all in the screener. But some of the stuff that was marked (like all the treasure multiplying in Bellatrix's vault) was not nearly as cool as I imagined it when it was just a subtitle :(
- Something about the pacing of the scene with all the dead characters (or the scenes leading up to it) was different. I'm not sure what, but I know it went by too fast to feel it the first time, and this time I was weeping about Fred. He's lived in my head so long that one always kills me.
- The Minerva and Snape duel was more polished. The nifty bits of fire that slash the floor weren't there before, IIRC, and they're a nice touch.
- I think the Snape and Lily stuff was shorter, which was good, because it was too long in the first cut.
- BALDING DRACO APPEARED IN THE FINAL CUT \o/ \o\ /o/ \o/ But the epilogue was shorter in general. Also, they seem to have added a few CGI wrinkles to Harry especially, since he didn't look the same age as Albus Severus this time! But mostly YAY BALDING DRACO.
- General notes: Clapping for Molly Weasley killing Bellatrix and for Neville killing the snake. And at the end of the film.
*sniff* Now it feels like it's really over. This is...very weird.
Okay. Biggest changes:
- In the screener, Snape's line about taking his tears to the pensieve was cut. I think it's clearer this way. Incidentally, that scene also had a tearless Alan Rickman face with a subtitle that said "A TEAR ROLLS GENTLY DOWN SNAPE'S FACE" which was a bit of a mood-killer, if amusing!
- The screener also didn't have Narcissa asking if Draco was alive. I suspect they were waiting on the Harry-is-alive revelation, only to realize that everybody in the theatre knows it already and this makes Narcissa's behavior clearer.
- The scene I liked so much with Harry just sitting and breathing, music-less, after the Pensieve scene where he learns he must die...was cut. :(
- Actual CGI. Voldemort dissolving was way cool, as was the shield slowly going over Hogwarts--those were unfinished or not present at all in the screener. But some of the stuff that was marked (like all the treasure multiplying in Bellatrix's vault) was not nearly as cool as I imagined it when it was just a subtitle :(
- Something about the pacing of the scene with all the dead characters (or the scenes leading up to it) was different. I'm not sure what, but I know it went by too fast to feel it the first time, and this time I was weeping about Fred. He's lived in my head so long that one always kills me.
- The Minerva and Snape duel was more polished. The nifty bits of fire that slash the floor weren't there before, IIRC, and they're a nice touch.
- I think the Snape and Lily stuff was shorter, which was good, because it was too long in the first cut.
- BALDING DRACO APPEARED IN THE FINAL CUT \o/ \o\ /o/ \o/ But the epilogue was shorter in general. Also, they seem to have added a few CGI wrinkles to Harry especially, since he didn't look the same age as Albus Severus this time! But mostly YAY BALDING DRACO.
- General notes: Clapping for Molly Weasley killing Bellatrix and for Neville killing the snake. And at the end of the film.
*sniff* Now it feels like it's really over. This is...very weird.