Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Released Year: 2010
Directed by David Yates & Ben Hibon

Casted by:
Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter
Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley
Emma Watson as Hermione Granger
Ralph Fiennes as Lord Voldemort
Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange
Jim Broadbent as Horace Slughorn
Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid
Warwick Davis as Filius Flitwick
Story:
The film begins as Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour addresses the wizarding media, stating that the Ministry remains strong as Lord Voldemort increases in power. Severus Snape meets with Voldemort and the Death Eaters to inform them of Harry's departure from Privet Drive. Voldemort takes Lucius Malfoy's wand from him, as his own shares the same core as Harry's and therefore cannot be used to kill Harry.

The Order of the Phoenix arrive at Privet Drive planning to move Harry to safety using Polyjuice Potion to create six decoys. During their flight they are ambushed, resulting in the deaths of Hedwig and Mad-Eye Moody. Voldemort's borrowed wand fails to kill Harry. That night, Harry has a dream in which he sees Ollivander being tormented by Voldemort, who claims that the wand-maker had lied to him for having said that a different wand would succeed in killing Harry.

Scrimgeour arrives at The Burrow and distributes items from Albus Dumbledore's will to Ron, Hermione and Harry. Dumbledore bequeathed Godric Gryffindor's sword to Harry, which Scrimgeour states is an important historical artifact and is therefore not Harry's property and that it is missing. That evening, the wedding of Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour is disrupted by Death Eaters, so the trio disapparate to London. Eventually finding sanctuary at No. 12 Grimmauld Place, they discover that the "R.A.B." from the false Horcrux locket is Regulus Arcturus Black. From Kreacher, they learn that Mundungus Fletcher has stolen the real locket. Kreacher and Dobby apprehend Fletcher, who reveals that the locket is in the possession of Dolores Umbridge. Under the guise of Ministry employees, the trio make their way to the Ministry where they successfully retrieve the locket and escape to a forest.

Unable to destroy the Horcrux, they take turns wearing it in order to dilute the paranoid thoughts which the Horcrux induces. Ron, while wearing the locket, is overcome by suspicions that Harry and Hermione are forming a relationship, so he abandons them. Harry sees a vision of Voldemort interrogating Gregorovitch, a renowned wand-maker who claims that a teenage boy had once stolen the legendary Elder Wand from his shop. Voldemort then begins to search for the thief.

Harry and Hermione go to Godric's Hollow to find Bathilda Bagshot, a historian who may have the Sword of Gryffindor, which they believe will destroy Horcruxes. Unfortunately they are cornered by Voldemort's snake, Nagini, and barely escape. Hermione identifies the mysterious thief seen in Harry's vision as Gellert Grindelwald.

When evening falls, Harry sees a doe Patronus and follows it to a frozen pond where he finds the sword beneath the ice. Harry attempts to retrieve the sword, but the locket almost drowns him. Ron returns just in time to rescue Harry, who opens the locket for Ron to destroy. However, before Ron can destroy it with the sword, smoke emerges and begins to project images of Ron's fears; a fake cloud of Harry and Hermione kiss and embrace naked for it was insulting him but he eventually manages to destroy the horcrux.

The trio then visit Xenophilius Lovegood to learn about a symbol seen several times on their journey. They learn that the symbol represents the Deathly Hallows, (the Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone and the Cloak of Invisibility). Lovegood then betrays them to the Death Eaters in an effort to have his kidnapped daughter returned. Later, Harry envisions Grindelwald telling Voldemort that the Elder Wand lies with Dumbledore. The trio are captured by Snatchers and taken to Malfoy Manor where Bellatrix Lestrange imprisons Harry and Ron in the wine cellar in which they discover Luna, Ollivander, and Griphook the goblin. Bellatrix tortures Hermione for information on how they found the sword, which was supposedly in her vault at Gringotts. Dobby apparates to the cellar and successfully rescues the prisoners, but is killed by Bellatrix in the process of escaping.

When the trio realized that Dobby was killed, they gave him a proper burial without using any magic. Voldemort arrives at Dumbledore's tomb, breaks it open and obtains the Elder Wand.
L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:
Well, i'm really not a big fans of harry potter. But i do watch all of them in the cinema. But this 7th movie (part1) is so complicated... i dun remember the names and previous stories. And i was like "huh?" "ummm?" "who?" throughout the whole film...

Maybe i need to rewatch all the previous 6 movies again. BTW, Emma Watson is so pretty now :)


2 comments:

  1. It's not too late to watch back previous series, uncle :P

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