Seldom do I undertake the painful job of loading Photoshop to create stuff. Today called for the necessary, especially when it's for the second parter of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final film of the Harry Potter mania franchise.
Don't deny - we all grew up with Harry Potter and his sidekicks, whether we liked it or not. Ever since the first film took the world by storm in 2001, every year's been a waiting game, either for a new film or a new book. I loved the books - every single one of them - for delivering huge doses of adrenaline with every read, regardless of the number of times. I even bought the Deathly Hallows book the day it hit the shelves in Singapore and finished it in one sitting. Don't get me wrong; I'm not a Pottermaniac, just someone who loves good reads. Damn, I remember collecting those Panini stickers when Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban hit screens.
And I had (and still have) a secret crush on the Weasley twins from Book 4 onwards. Gosh dark secret.
So despite disappointments by the past few Potter films (mostly due to skimpy plots) and really bad cramps, I just HAD TO drag Boyfriend Jack to GVMax to catch the first 3D session. If I had to pay 9 bucks for a normal theatre and 11 bucks for 3D, wouldn't that be a yawningly obvious choice?
Why watch the film when you already know who's going to die and, most importantly, whether Harry's going to die? Because it's just never the same. While lines in the book can tell captivating stories, it's definitely good to complement the plot with lights and sound to paint a better picture of the plot. Catching the show in 3D (like what I did today) further enhanced the experience; now I know how Hermione and Ron felt when Nagini came flying in their faces.
More importantly, it's like coming a full circle and completing the tumultuous journey of growing up and fighting to live with Potter, Granger and Weasley. From Potter's first day at Hogwarts, his discovery that something out there's trying to kill him, and finally to the Battle of Hogwarts (where 3 of my favourite characters were unfortunately killed off)... it felt as though I've been just there, at the very spot Potter reclaimed Hogwarts from the Death Eaters. And now that it's all over, I can't help but feel slightly melancholic.
Anyway, on a lighter note, ever wondered how our main leads look like offscreen?
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Rupert Grint
I actually suspect that he smokes offscreen, though I've been unable to confirm it from anywhere. He isn't bad-looking, just far toooooooo unkempt for my liking. If you don't like to shave and enjoy looking like a vagrant, shoo.
Emma Watson
She's beautiful in every way, off- or onscreen, with or without makeup, inside (her brains) and outside. She's opted out of Brown University, I heard. Her next stop? Oxford University. Eat your hearts out. Oh, and she's tearing off her goody-two-shoes for her next film on teenage years and homosexuality. Right.
Daniel Radcliffe
Everyone found him cute in the first film, lovable in the second film and adorable in the third. What happened after that looked something close to a cross between train wreck and a bad case of alcoholism. While he's confessed to undergoing therapy for his problem with the bottle, I guess I can never fully appreciate Radcliffe, not even in his full (nude) glory in theatre. Oh, he's the guy with the cigarette.
Bye, Harry Potter. Thanks for growing up with me. But I still don't like the films.
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