there's a lot about this that's kind of not okay.

[fox]

I'm talking about the fifth movie, and I think the spoiler-time on that has probably passed; but I'm also talking about the seventh book and the eventual seventh movie, so, here's a cut.

It's kind of not okay with me that it will be at least three years before we get the last film.  I suppose there's an outside chance they could hurry the fuck up and crank both the last two movies out in two years, but I sincerely doubt it.  IMPATIENT NOW.

It's kind of not okay with me that a large part of the reason I'm so impatient for the last film is that, as I said to thyesc here, the bit where Harry's vision clears after the pond and he sees Ron soaked through with the locket in one hand and the sword in the other is going to be the hottest hero shot in the entire film franchise, most of whose hot hero shots are going to come in that last film.  I'm also thinking of Neville killing the snake, and also Neville being exhausted with hauling bodies all around the place but keeping on working (I am reminded of angevin2's Henry V icon, with the bloodied and done-in Branagh being told "the day is ours").  And Ron finally stabbing the Horcrux, because he is awesome, and then collapsing with the sobs because he thought his best friend was carrying on with his best girl.  And, and, and.  Pretty much the whole book was very cinematic, as I said -- it's not wall-to-wall hero shots, but it is sort of wall-to-wall Yeah I Can See This On A Screen.  (With the flagrant exception of the Talking Killer Syndrome, which is a disease that Voldemort has always had, and has now infected ghost!Dumbledore and even -- gasp! -- Harry.  Who knew that when they said he'd got some characteristics in common with Voldemort, Monologuing would be one of them?)

It's not at all okay with me that my investment in the hero!Ron that is inevitable in the final movie comes mainly from a whole series of adoring Ron, but also lately from the fact that Rupert Grint has always been groovy and just did a really nice job in the fifth movie.  He will be awesome in the last movie, is what I'm saying.  (And he's, what, 19 or 20 now, so stop looking at me like that.  They're all awfully nice-looking kids, aren't they?)

Comments

[acejillian.livejournal.com]

I fear a little. Considering how they have minimalized a lot of Ron's Big Moments, I wonder if they'd really do a good job of the lake scene? I mean, I hope to god they do. But I don't know...

But I can't wait for HP7 Movie. Oh my god it's going to be nonstop excitement, never catch your breath.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

I hear what you're saying -- but it just seems to me that this, above all, is the essential This Is Ron Weasley moment (the way killing Nagini is And Now Presenting Neville Longbottom). Ron has always been The Valiant One, right, the heart of the group -- it had to be him as the knight on the chessboard in the first movie, and it has to be him getting the sword when Harry fucks up the assignment in the last one. I just don't see how they could do it any other way. (Now, they may not frame the shot exactly as I have it in my head, but that'll be their own stupid fault for not hiring me as a consultant. [g]) If they do it right, a viewer who hadn't read the book wouldn't know Ron had come back until he was right there with the loot in his hands; I confidently expect that to get a Big Fucking Cheer in the cinema, as movies are meant to do in the first week of their run. [g]