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00:00Giving a franchise a good ending is no easy feat, and just ask Game of Thrones.
00:07But Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 gave the fandom everything it wanted.
00:11A proper closure for all the characters and an epic final battle that will take your heart away.
00:26David Jates had a big responsibility on his shoulders.
00:30He had become the director on the payroll at Warner Brothers since Order of the Phoenix to direct the rest of the Harry Potter films.
00:37And since Half-Blood Prince, he was already showing signs of being there with this scene of Dumbledore and Harry Potter that looks like it came straight out of the lighthouse.
00:49Things were definitely going to get creepy as hell with the remaining Harry Potter films.
00:53We've already talked on this channel about how special and unique the Prisoner of Azkaban is compared to the others, and we encourage you to watch the video if you haven't already.
01:09But this latest installment also has something that has made it a pioneer in its genre.
01:13Turning the final movie's release day into a huge social event.
01:18Okay, Star Wars had a similar phenomenon, yes.
01:21But back then, there was no internet like the one that existed during the Harry Potter phenomenon.
01:25Let's hop on the Howard's Express to find out what the cast's last big trip to film this movie was like,
01:40and how they managed to deliver one of the most satisfying endings of all time for the most loyal fans.
01:45And of course, don't be a fool.
01:48And don't forget to subscribe to the channel and hit the bell to find out about new videos like this one if you enjoyed it.
02:01Until David Jates came on board, Warner Brothers had a lot of headaches finding directors to helm the Harry Potter films.
02:08Chris Columbo's did an exceptional job with the first two films, but he left the franchise to prioritize his family.
02:14Alfonso Cuarón also made The Prisoner of Azkaban his own, but he wasn't interested in continuing with the world of Harry Potter
02:21because he wanted to focus on more unique and authorial works like Children of Men and Gravity
02:25and not spend so many years of his career on a franchise.
02:31Then Mike Newell came on board to direct Goblet of Fire, which was fine,
02:36but we'll leave it at that because apparently Warner Brothers wasn't very happy with the final result of the film
02:40or it wasn't exactly what they wanted for what was coming next in the franchise.
02:44Newell gave it a touch of action, comedy and awkward teenage romance,
02:51but Warner wanted the saga to start taking on a darker and more dramatic tone in the following films.
02:57And not only that, what they wanted at this point was a bit of stability.
03:02Choosing a different director for each film had worked for them up until that point,
03:06but they were reaching a point in the production where,
03:08rather than entertaining themselves with unique and original visions,
03:11they wanted someone in charge who knew how to do a bit of chop chop chop, you know.
03:17That is, someone who would be more direct during the shoots,
03:20who would also focus on making the rest of the films have a more uniform and coherent tone from one to the next,
03:26who would align much more with the studio's own vision and who, above all,
03:29would be willing to stay until the end of the project.
03:31And that man was David Jates.
03:39David seemed like one of the best options because up until that point he had already had a lot of experience working in British television,
03:46on series like State of Play,
03:47which was about a newspaper investigating the death of a journalist who wrote about politics,
03:51and sex trafficking,
03:53which was about a journalist investigating a chain of women trafficking.
03:59So he had experience working with tight budgets to control production costs,
04:03also in working with tight shooting deadlines and in managing multiple narrative lines from different characters over several hours of content.
04:09And well, and as we have seen,
04:14also in dealing with particularly dark and murky themes,
04:17so he ended up directing The Order of the Phoenix,
04:19The Half-Blood Prince and The Deathly Hallows.
04:22But hey, as you know,
04:24the latter was split into two parts,
04:26so there ended up being four films in total.
04:28The decision to split it into two parts was not trivial.
04:32David Heyman,
04:33the producer who has been involved with the entire franchise,
04:36said that the fact of making two parts was not for commercial reasons,
04:39but because the plot of the last book was very complicated.
04:43But hey,
04:44what else is the guy going to say?
04:48Who's going to say no to an extra 1,342,693,157 at the box office, right?
04:58But hey,
04:59the move worked out quite well because the fans thought it was cool to go to the cinema twice instead of once,
05:04since as we know none of them wanted to face the existential anguish of the end of the world of Harry Potter,
05:09some of them may not have gotten over it yet.
05:12I think if they had split it into five parts they would still have been fine,
05:16but let's get to the point.
05:18Harry Potter left a real legacy in franchise cinema in this regard.
05:22Nowadays,
05:23we see this as something almost normal,
05:25because many franchises that came after have adopted this habit of giving us a coitus interruptus
05:29after two and a half hours of film and making us wait another year or two.
05:36But Warner Brothers were the first to do something like this.
05:38This also allows,
05:39in the case of adaptations,
05:41to make the films more faithful to the original material.
05:44Having more hours of footage gives time for more characters to appear for more time on screen.
05:48It also allows the narrative universe to be extended with extra material,
05:54such as this legendary scene of Snape with Lily,
05:57which was not in the book,
05:58but has become a huge fan favorite.
06:02I mean,
06:03extending it into two parts at the end had only good things.
06:07All passionate fans want to have an ending that does justice to years of emotional investment in the saga.
06:12And well,
06:15luckily Warner was very committed to it and paved the way for other franchises to delight in extra footage.
06:29Do you know what the problem is with the Harry Potter films?
06:32Well,
06:33I'll tell you.
06:34After the Prisoner of Azkaban,
06:36none of them have a third act,
06:37as such.
06:38So what happens?
06:40Well,
06:40the feeling you get after watching them one after the other is that they're somewhat unsatisfying.
06:45It gives you more of a feeling of watching a Netflix series than actual movies.
06:50That's why I think that when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 came out,
06:54people had already been warming up to it for a long time, right?
06:58Like,
06:58we're finally going to have a proper climax.
07:03An ending that has indeed been simmering for a long time,
07:06which makes the film extra satisfying.
07:08The entire film functions almost entirely as a third act in itself.
07:13It starts off slow and deliberate with Dobby's burial,
07:18but at the same time underscoring the main theme of this latest film,
07:21death.
07:22A theme that will be present at every step from now on.
07:25We will be reminded of the death of Albus Dumbledore,
07:29the mysterious deaths of his sister Gregory Goyle,
07:32Snape,
07:33Fred,
07:33Lupus and his wife and even Harry Potter himself,
07:36who before surrendering to Voldemort also gives us a review of all the people who have died throughout his life.
07:41And this theme is present from the very beginning.
07:46Harry Potter is marked by the death of his parents and it is something he will have to face in the end.
07:51There are several things that the film conveys quite well.
08:03From the moment they infiltrate Greenauts,
08:05a feeling of urgency begins to exist that increases little by little,
08:09scene by scene,
08:10cooking up that final battle that will be inevitable.
08:13And of course,
08:14when he arrives at Hogwarts,
08:16it is no longer what it used to be,
08:18not even close to what it used to be,
08:20a place of comfort,
08:21now it is chilling to see how it is.
08:24Hogwarts had long ceased to be the center of action of everything that happens in the story.
08:30And going back there and seeing the school in such darkness shows you that this is no longer a children's game,
08:35but that this is now a war movie.
08:36Each character is forced to leave their everyday lives to face something bigger than themselves.
08:46And Howard's is just another character.
08:49Seeing how it is destroyed,
08:51how it falls brick by brick,
08:52how it is no longer a safe place for anyone,
08:55is a good parallel to when we leave our adolescents behind and begin to be adults.
09:00This directly influences the hierarchies between the people who make up the school.
09:04The teachers used to be the figures of authority and power,
09:08but in these times of crisis the difference between students and teachers blurs.
09:13Now everyone has to work shoulder to shoulder as equals,
09:16young and old,
09:17in order to survive.
09:28These adult teachers who seemed invincible now seem vulnerable and scared,
09:32which is also a shock to the teenager who has just entered the adult world.
09:38It also brings about a closure to some satisfying character arcs.
09:41Well,
09:42not all of them.
09:44This kiss between Ron and Hermione,
09:46well,
09:46it's quite anticlimactic,
09:48honestly,
09:48because I mean,
09:49yes,
09:50in the books this is something that happened no matter what,
09:52but the fact that Emma and Rupert had no chemistry because they had been raised together,
09:57almost like siblings,
09:58didn't give us the most magical kiss in the world,
10:00let's say.
10:00They even intercut this shot where you see them far away and very dark.
10:07Oh my god,
10:08David Jates,
10:09there are moments where you can't see a damn thing because of how dark it is.
10:13Damn,
10:14but I imagine it shouldn't have looked so good to prolong that kiss on screen.
10:17But anyway,
10:20the point is that in the end all our favorite characters have the opportunity to have some screen time to close their story.
10:28Moments like those of Professor McGonagall,
10:30one of the most beloved by fans,
10:32when she confronts Professor Snape and all the students back away in fear,
10:35marking the total breakdown of reality and the status quo.
10:38or when he invokes this spell to bring the stone soldiers to life.
10:45Brief moments show the immense power he has that we haven't been able to see until now.
10:49We also have the culmination of Naviel's character.
11:02In the previous films we have seen how his character changed little by little, very slowly.
11:07Not only has Harry had to face his ghosts in his past,
11:12Neville has also done so on his own path.
11:15His parents were tortured and murdered by Bellatrix,
11:18so he also has a very personal relationship with Voldemort's organization and the Death Eaters.
11:25He has also had to accept how his parents left this life and how he has to face this reality,
11:30culminating in this epic moment where we see that Neville has always belonged to the house he belongs to,
11:35a Gryffindor with a heart full of bravery and courage.
11:40Draco also had an ending that perhaps is not the one we would like to see,
11:44but it was the most realistic regarding his situation.
11:48In the previous films, we also saw how a villainous character gradually change,
11:53learning along his path that he is not as bad as he wants to believe.
11:58A character who deep down feels bad for being forced to do bad things,
12:02tormented by wanting to do things better,
12:04but who lives in an environment that does not allow him to be so.
12:09We see his doubts, his inner support for Harry and even respect for him,
12:13but pressured by his family to return to Voldemort and the Death Eaters.
12:17But without a doubt the most memorable arc is that of Severus Snape.
12:27A formula that has been repeated in the vast majority of the films is that at the beginning of each story,
12:32a new character was introduced with whom a game of confusion was played.
12:36The character you thought was good was actually bad,
12:39and the one you thought was bad turned out to be good in the end,
12:41and always in a self-contained way in the same installment.
12:46But Severus Snape is the culmination of this game of tug-of-war over the years.
12:50In none of the previous installments was it made entirely clear which side he was on.
12:56His words and his way of being told us that he was a bad character,
12:59but his actions always made us doubt.
13:02He is one of the most beloved characters in the series
13:05because he has a psychological complexity that few Harry Potter characters have.
13:10He embodies the ambiguity of people and that nothing is black and white.
13:14When Harry looks at the last memory we see of Snape,
13:18it is a catharsis for both Harry Potter and us.
13:23I think it is one of the great successes of the film,
13:26since as we have said,
13:27it is a sequence that was not originally in the books,
13:29or at least not in this form.
13:33In the book, Snake and Lily talk about how they are both wizards,
13:36but in the film it is summed up with this beautiful gesture
13:39where a young Snape flies a little plant to Lily
13:41and they smile at each other with complicity.
13:44It also contains some of the most creative and suggestive shots
13:49in the entire film by far.
13:52And the editing work is also remarkable,
13:55as it intersperses dialogues from different timelines
13:57to contextualize parallel scenes such as Snape finding the deceased Lily
14:01and applying a distorted image effect.
14:05In the end,
14:06it works almost like an independent short film within the film itself.
14:09This character who has had an indecipherable poker face for years,
14:14we now see him at his most vulnerable and painful moment of his life.
14:19How instead of expressing his love for Lily with words,
14:22he invokes the Patronus that jumps out the window.
14:25How in the end we discover that he ended up loving Harry
14:29because he is the only thing left alive of the woman he loved.
14:32And well,
14:46that's it for the video.
14:48If you liked it,
14:49don't forget to give it a like,
14:50because that always helps a lot.
14:52And as always,
14:53what do you think?
14:54Was it an ending that lived up to the entire franchise
14:56or do you have another Harry Potter film that you liked a lot more?
15:00I'll read you in the comments.
15:01Ciao!
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