Deathly Hallows joke!

[secondlina]

 Told you guys I would draw one!




I know the books kinda explain a bit more why Harry follows the creepy historian and the light, but jeesus, the movie makes it seem like his idea is less logical and he's got an unhealthy obsession with the "follow the leader" game. I mean, if Ron suddenly re-appeared with no warning, despite him saving my ass from freezing water I would you know... CHECK if it was REALLY HIM. Voldemort didn't order people to kill Harry after all, just bring him back. You'd think, as a former brewer of Polyjuice potion he'd be an itty bitty more careful.

Regardless... Good movie. I just like how movie!Harry is 100% more reckless then book!Harry, who already kinda was.

In other news, there's a Tim Burton exhibit going around in Canada that includes multiple drawings. Some are from old Disney projects (Black Cauldron concept art?), others for his main films... others are just crazy ideas. It's currently open at the TIFF Lightbox Gallery in Toronto. Those who can, please go for me! :D I really like the sample drawings i've seen :







Burton also seems to be riding on a strange project, allied with Montréal filmmakers, he seems to be trying to piece together a movie from... twitter suggestions! Burton suggested a premise and other people are adding to the story. Now, don't get me wrong, I like Burton. But i,m a little puzzled by his latest movies. And also by him using the same idea that generated the dreaded "Snakes on a plane" (Yes, the movie's scenario was built from internet suggestions). So I wonder where he's going with that.

I have a strange love/hate relationship with Burton's work. I adore some of his work and am truly puzzled by others. I don't know if the guy is just out of ideas, or if he just likes different types of ideas, or if he's just doing it for the fame and fortune. Not to mention, the more I read about the works I DO like, the more I realize many of the ideas poured into the work are not directly from him per say, but from his team. It's odd. But i'm kinda glad his drawings are being exhibited. That's one thing that will never change with him - he's definitely a visual master. When he comes to visuals and colors, he's very creative. 

However, I gotta say, I hate how Hot Topic decided to make a whole bunch of mechandise with Tim Burton stuff on it. Yeah, it fits the perky goth subculture, but something hurts the goth in me when I see kids dressing as vampires with alice in Wonderland t-shirts. Gah.

- Isa

Comments

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

Bwahahahahaaaaaa!!!! I LOVE the frolic panel!

And as to Ron being really Ron, I don't know if he would've been able to grab the Sword of Gryffindor if he had been a Death Eater... would he?

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

It the book, they really say it's the sword of Gryffindor, but the movie... I dunno, when I saw it, I didn't really remember the book so I honestly though it was a big giant trap. Could have been a fake sword!

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, maybe it was because I reread the book during vacation before the movie came out, so some of the details were more prominent in my mind as I was watching.

[brendala.livejournal.com]

It really is a miracle that Harry got through the last book alive! LOL
And, considering how easy it is to acquire polyjuice potion, it always bothered me that the trio didn't have some sort of secret phrase or handshake they could use with each other just in case they suspect that one of their friends is really Bellatrix in disguise or something. :P


I wish I could go the the Burton exhibit. I also wish that you didn't post that picture of what appears to be a Playboy/Stripper version of Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas. That one is gonna haunt me for a while! >_<

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

I was surprised by that too. Heck, the adults had codes! Why not the kids?

Hey, yeah, I guess it is Sally! Woah.

[piratecore.livejournal.com]

I saw that Tim Burton exhibit last year when it opened at MoMa in New York! It was really amazing! There was a real variety of stuff there. My favourites were the two zombie eskimo puppets from James and the Gianr Peach. I'm probably going to go see the exhibit again in Toronto over my Christmas break because it was really neat

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Man, I wish I could see it too. Was there a book for the exhibit? Does it have a ton of illustrations?

[piratecore.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there were two books, a smaller one and a really large one. I picked up the big one and I posted a little review of it a while back on an art book forum http://parkablogs.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=145 The book is huge, there's lots of great stuff in it!

[disembodied-cat.livejournal.com]

Ron also destroyed the horcrux in that time though ... so I mean .. if one of Voldy's guys did that ... he'd probably expect himself to get murdered, even if he did bring Harry back. X)

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Ron could have been evil between the time he fishes Harry out and the Horcrux destruction. I'm surprise they don't have a code to identify themselves on sight. But I guess Harry was a little preoccupied at the time :D

I'm just splitting hairs to make a joke really.

[paynesgrey.livejournal.com]

Haha, that Harry Potter comic is awesome. LOL, so true too.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :D

[spankingfemme.livejournal.com]

Everyone hates on Hot Topic, and I can understand why with the who is wearing their duds, but they do have some cool patches and shirts you can't get anywhere else... very easily anyway.

As for Burton, I feel about the same with the hit or miss works. His art is definitely one of a kind though :)

Harry Potter movie verse book. (Funny ass comic BTW!) I can't argue one way or the other as I haven't seen the last 2 or 3 movies, and I've never read the books (Although I have been highly toted to do so ASAP!) But my experience is 9 times out of 10, the book is better than the movie.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I kinda enjoy how easy and cheap it is to buy these cool shirts, but the whole marketing of it all makes me a little meh.

Then again, I love Disney movies. So really, epic marketing should stop bothering me by now.

I find books are better then films when the film is basically just a word-for-word remake of the book. I like movies and books that have differences (exemple - "Howl's moving castle") because then, you can get two interesting stories with the same characters. However, most people just want movies to be visuals of the word they have read. In those cases, of course the book is better. Movie can't beat the visuals your imagination created just for you, after all. :D

[spankingfemme.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we have been strung up by consumerism in all of its many facets :P

See now, I can like a new take on a book done in a movie, but I'm one of those people that likes the story to stay the same without a lot of deviation because the media is fun in itself as a visual. If the characters change in personality, it really irritates me, but I can understand when certain parts of a book have to be cut or altered to make it time sensitive or 'doable' on the big screen (Luckily with CGI tech these days most of these problems are moot by now.) I did like the changes in the movie Kick Ass better than the graphic novel (this may be because I saw the movie first though :P)

[chameleon9999.livejournal.com]

Oh dang, by the time I get to see Deathly Hallows, it will probably be on DVD! I love the looks on everyone's faces. Ron: >:(

I've just been going to see short movies (ie: animations) due to time constraints.

[engelen.livejournal.com]

oh Harry, u so silly...

also, I don't like Tim Burton :\