Did the Harry Potter movies really have to gradually become so dark? Why?
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Did the Harry Potter movies really have to gradually become so dark? Why?
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Because the books gradually became so dark.
Why else?
That’s the beauty of Harry Potter— it aged along with its characters and readers.
The movies did become increasingly dark. This is one of the great devices of movies that books find harder to portray. The visual media is great at the increasing ‘darkness’ of events through music and colour and film.
But the movies really did have to become increasingly dark, because the world was becoming increasingly dark. If you think back to the first book (and the first movie), Hagrid tells Harry, “It were dark days Harry … very dark,” when he spoke to Harry about Voldemort’s first reign of power and fear.
Those of us who read Harry Potter from book one and had to wait at least a year between instalments, were a year older between every book release. So too, with every movie release, there was a year. So in the initial stages of production, viewers were all a year older. Now, a person can sit down and binge watch all movies in one sitting … without developing their maturity as a person or without pondering the previous instalment for a whole year.
I love the books … but I love the movies too. One of the best things about the movies is the Warner Bros. logo getting worse and worse as the movies progress into those dark days that Hagrid told Harry about.
I don’t know how old you are, but as life continues, the world does become a darker place sometimes. It is better if we can remember (as Dumbledore says), to turn on the lights!
Well, they are based on the books, which also get darker. Rowling’s story has Harry’s challenges grow as he grows. She had no desire for Harry to forever be a child, but for him to go from 11 to adult.
Are you talking about the actual film itself, the visuals, or about the story?
For the story, Sarah answered that one already, but for the visuals in the movie – honestly, it’s one of the many things that frustrates me about the movies. Seeing different shades of grey in some scenes gets boring quite fast.
Do you mean in story and tone or color pallet?
if the former, it’s because the books did (well except HBP which aside from TPS and CoS was the most light hearted movie in the entire series). If the latter, it’s because it’s supposed to represent the series getting darker. Granted, it really wasn’t necessary. I mean, I do like the color pallet change from the first two movies to the third, fourth and fifth movies. But in the sixth movie, it was just super dull looking. I think the 7th and 8th movies were a little better though.