What Went Wrong with The Half-Blood Prince Film (Video Essay)

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[vinodnaidu]

We know about Yates not being comedic director, but we never knew Morgan Ross was a memer.. Them captions whilst showing Harry and Ginny scenes.. I laughed more than I should’ve 🤣🤣🤣

[aesthetics]

Goblet of fire: STOP CUTTING EVERYTHING OUT

Half blood prince: STOP PUTTING RANDOM STUFF IN

[devinharwood]

“Dumbledore dies in this one” “sweet, let’s make it a rom com ...”

[aramrussell]

Harry had more chemistry with Severus Snape's textbook than Ginny.

[CeltycSparrow]

Daniel Radcliff has proven (EVEN in this very series) that he can portray a boy in love with a girl and have it be believable and genuinely sweet. He did it with Cho. He gazed at her on the train, he spilled his juice when she was looking at him. There was that whole moment when he kissed her in the Room of Requirement. With Ginny, we see VERY LITTLE, if any, of that behavior. He has more chemistry with HERMIONE, and even Luna, than he does with Ginny, who is meant to be his girlfriend.

[henriquedaumas]

One running joke I always loved in the books was Harry saying "Snape" and Dumbledore always intervening with "PROFESSOR Snape, Harry".

[SpaceApe]

The fact that the book is only mentioned twice in the movie is utter bullshit. If theres one thing I remember its them mentioning that Harry practically slept with it, and you can see him read it often

[sohanakapoor]

Dumbledore-I noticed you have been spending a great deal of time with miss Granger.
Me-They have been spending a great time since they were 11 years old.

[mahdisheheryar]

For me the worst part of this movie was the Death Eaters blowing up the Weasleys' house. In the Deathly Hallows, the Death Eaters don't even know the location of the Weasleys' house and only find out after Voldemort has infiltrated the Ministry. It's so frustrating to see them commit such a big blunder as this.

[Gachazaragirl]

Half blood prince also didn’t have enough of Harry’s sass. I mean they left out “there’s no need to call me sir professor”!

[KodeLiMe]

"I'm not worried, Harry. I'm with you."
This line is monumental and it's a crime that it was cut.

[schris]

9:12 Harry had more chemistry with the random muggle girl than with Ginny.

[RK-fhbp]

Gotta love when they add a pointless action scene at the burrow but then remove the one actual action sequence from the book during the climax of the story. Also, it’s unforgivable that they had Harry just stand around and watch dumbledore die, because his character would never back down while somebody he loves is in danger. The book handles this so much better by having Harry under the cloak and dumbledoor preventing him from helping by using magic.

[hamed]

I especially dislike how after Harry casts sectumsempra on Draco, in the books after doing it, he kneels beside Draco apologizing, but in the film he stands there. That’s not like harry.

[jamesjoynz]

Book Ginny: Confident, pretty, made fun of umbridge, talented witch, outspoken.
Movie Ginny:
- - - - -
Shoelace!

[sydhamelin]

Wow, changing 'annoy' to 'mean to me' is definitely huge. It did come off like he was bullied for being different. But not only that, we saw Harry do the same thing in the first movie with his cousin, so it seems pretty human.

But just by annoying him? Especially because the word 'annoy' is VERY open to interpretation. And my guess is that the book version was annoyed by a lot of people who were doing nothing wrong. So it goes from "I use magic in defense" to "Stay out of my way", very different tone.

[johnpalmer]

The biggest mistake is the film doesn’t have Dumbledore freeze Harry in the astronomy tower. It was way out of Harry’s character to stay below and not intervene. Dumbledore knew this and that’s exactly why he froze him in the book. Huge flaw in the film IMO.

[kaydenlewis]

When tonks called Remus “Sweetheart” my mum was so confused she was like oh are they together when did that happen (she hasn’t read the books)

[joshuadesautels]

In the book version of the Astronomy Tower scene, Harry was immobilized, and under the Invisibility Cloak. Dumbledore had made sure he COULDN'T interfere.

[FreakyLynx]

I’m surprised you didn’t mention Snape seeing Harry and warning him to stay quiet before he kills Dumbeldore. That scene still bothers me because where in the book you still don’t know yet that Snape is protecting Harry, here it clearly gives it away.