There’s no time for adolescent angst in war. A long windup to the new one’s big-bang finale, “Part 1” was memorable for the death of the house elf Dobby and less so for the draggy scenes of Harry, Hermione and Ron hiding and quarreling in the wild. My, how the children have grown - and the movies too. Grint who, in one early, anxious scene wears a goatee and a panicked look that together suggest a junior Paul Giamatti. Just as startling is the transformation of Mr. Watson, smoldering in bruising dark lipstick on the cover of the July Vogue, has her own hair and makeup artist, and the director, David Yates, even trains the camera on her generous peekaboo cleavage. Look closely and you can see the beard inching along Harry’s, or rather Mr. Times were grim, at least off screen - the first opened in November of that year - but Chris Columbus’s directorial touch was insistently light as Harry was initiated into a world alive with odd doings, strange creatures and the evil that would almost consume it.Ī decade later Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and his friends, Hermione ( Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint), have become powerful adult wizards, while the actors are now stars.
A pop cultural happening extraordinaire, the Potter movies took uncertain flight in 2001 with Harry, then an orphan of 11, home alone with his grotesquely unloving relatives. Childhood ends, this time forever, with tears and howls, swirls of smoke, the shock of mortality and bittersweet smiles in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” the grave, deeply satisfying final movie in the series.
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