By: Jorien Cornelissen

Information
I went to the film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1. David Yates
has produced the film. The leading players are: Harry Potter (Daniel
Radcliffe), Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) and Ron Weasley (Rupert
Grint). I saw it in the cinema with Gideon.

Review
The trouble with Harry, as becomes clear from this seventh and
penultimate installment, is not that we have lost the plot -- the film is as
tangled and as corkscrewed as Bonham Carter's hair -- but that we are in
danger of losing everything else.
By: anthony Lane Top Critic in New York

Structure

The film is set in many

different places because it’s a
search for the deathly
hallows, but of course
Hogwarts, the school of the
three wizards, returned in this
movie. The actors were
dressed in black clothes. They
wear outside school regular
clothes but in Hogwarts they
often wear black robes with
their department mentioned.
You’ve got Gryffindor,
hufflepuff, ravenclaw and slytherin. Harry Hermoine and Ron are in
Gryffindor. The clothes and the locations were all very scary, dark and had
something secret in it. So only that made it already scary and exciting.
Alexandre Desplat was hired to compose the score for Harry Potter and
the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. Desplat composed throughout the summer of
2010 and the recording sessions began on 14 August with the London
Symphony Orchestra. The supervising orchestrator on Deathly Hallows,
Conrad Pope, (also one of the orchestrators on the first three Potter films)
collaborated with Desplat and commented that the music is "exciting and
vigorous" and "those who love melodies, harmonies and emotions in their
film scores should be pleased. In the whole movie you hear music. Also
with every different emotion or places you heard another structure in the
music which made you feel the movie more. The film was told in
chronological order. They started in Hogwarts found out about the
horcruxes which they had to find to kill Lord Voldemort. So they started
the search to the seven horcruxes:
1. Tom Riddle's Diary
2. Marvolo Gaunt's Ring
3. Slytherin's Locket
4. Helga Hufflepuff's Cup
5. The Diadem of Rowena Ravenclaw
6. (unknown to Voldemort) Harry Potter himself.
7. Nagini the snake
Without knowing they already destroyed a few.
I can remember the whole movie but the most memorable scene was the
part that dobby (the elf of the Malfoy family who helped Harry Potter) died.
It was very sad and the camera was zoomed first to dobby and then to his
best friend, Harry Potter. Harry was very angry and sad about it and you
could really feel the emotion. I think the film is a science friction and
adventure film.

Content

Harry has finally come of age, and finally started on his final journey to
defeat Voldemort for good. The Durselys are forced to go into hiding so
that Voldemort’s Death Eaters will not torture them for information, and
Harry sets off with Ron and Hermione on a difficult quest to find and
destroy the last of Voldemort’s Horcruxes. Only once those have been
destroyed, Harry knows, can Voldemort truly be killed.
It’s not easy. Harry is plagued with rumors of Dumbledore’s past, and
begins to wonder if the Headmaster he so long revered might have had a
much darker past than he ever let on. The three are frequently without
food, and with winter coming their journey is no day at the beach. Because
of their lack of plan, lack of food, and lack of progress, their spirits are
often low, and Ron especially becomes argumentative. One night he and
Harry get into an epic fight and Ron leaves to go back home.
Harry and Hermione are devastated that he’d abandoned them. They
finally decide to revisit Godric’s Hollow in search of clues, and once again
they’re almost caught by Voldemort. Every step they make, it seems, he is
there anticipating them. They’ve almost died too many times to count, and
their spirits sink even lower when Harry discovers his wand was broken in
the battle.
Ron redeems himself a few weeks later by coming back and saving Harry’s
life in the nick of time. They manage to destroy another Horcrux with
Gryffindor’s sword, and they become excited again as they begin to learn
about a mysterious trio of magical objects called the Deathly Hallows.
Whomever possesses the three objects will be a master of death, and to
Harry, it’s his one chance to beat Voldemort and live to tell the tale.
As his adventures and the danger he’s in increases, Harry begins to truly
understand what Dumbledore intended him to do. He realizes, almost at
the last minute, that his own life will have to be sacrificed in order for
Voldemort to truly be vanquished. Filled with love for his friends, he
willingly gives his life so that they may live.
His last act of heroism, however, saves his life. He meets Dumbledore
again in death, and Dumbledore answers many of his questions. He is
given a choice to stay or to go back, and he chooses to go back and fight.
It’s all over between Harry and Voldemort with just one spell. Harry is left
alive, the true master of the Hallows, and Voldemort is killed for good. He
now understands more than he ever has about love, and life, and sacrifice,
and in spite of the loss of many of his friends during the last battle, is
grateful for the second chance he’s been given at life, and love.

The main aim in the movie is to destroy all the horcruxes. Because of that
there are all different emotions playing.

Harry Potter is the protagonist of the film. The whole

story exist because of him.
Harry lost his parents on the age of one by Lord
Voldemort. He survived the deathly spell: evada
kedavra. Since the spell he’s marked with a scar on
his forehead in the shape of a thunderbolt. Harry
lives until his 12th year with the Dursleys (a boring
muggle family) who avoid magic. At the night Harry
turns into the age of twelve, the giant Hagrid saves
him from the terrible family. Since then he follows
lessons at Hogwarts.

Hermione Granger is one of the best friends from Harry. She

got muggle parents, but is always the best of the class. In
the first and second year she’s a gigantic dork but later on in
the third and fourth year it changes. There isn’t anything
known about her past.

Ron is part of the Weasley family who are destitute. He

is one of seven children. And must always compete with
his 5 older brothers and his one year younger sister. He
is Harry's best friend, and always continue to support
him.
Except in the fourth book, when they were fighting.
Ron comes from a wizard family, where no one muggle occurs
First they are best friend and later on Ron Weasley and Herione Granger
fall in love. They are wizards who compete against Lord Voldemort. I most
commiserate with Harry Potter because you know all of his feelings and
he’s followed everywhere. If the three friend splits, the film always follows
Harry.

Function

The films are an adaption of the books of J.K. Rowling. It’s mostly just for
amusement. The aim is very good succeed. The writer and the producer of
the book and movie holds the audience by the story line and the repeating
excitement.

My reaction:

When I went to the seventh movie from Harry Potter I thought it was like
all the other ones, and because of the two parts I thought it was confusing.
It was a repeating of the other films but it was extraordinaire, I was fully
concentrated to the movie. It was one of the most beautiful films I’ve ever
seen. As I said earlier the death of Dobby really affected me.
The film was very beautiful because of the highly attention to the
decoration and the actors. The actors really living in their roll. You
understand their feeling by the expression and the way they react on
things. It almost feel like they are real.