Sugar Covered Quills

Its already the 31st of July in the UK, so in behalf of the staff and members here in SCQ, we would like to greet Harry Potter author JK Rowling and her most famous creation, Harry Potter, a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

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MTV Movies Blog was able to get a reaction from Rupert Grint aka Ron Weasley regarding the recently released HBP teaser trailer. Speaking from the set of his current movie, Cherry Bomb, Rupert said he hasnt seen the teaser trailer though he is looking forward to see it. He also mentioned that, “It’s only a teaser, just to get people excited.”

He was also happy that though he was seen only briefly, it was one of his favorite scenes that was shown.“He gets poisoned quite a bit in this film,” Grint laughed — because he ate Romilda Vane’s chocolate cauldrons (also meant for someone else, this time Harry) which were spiked with love potion. Harry rushes his friend off to the potions professor for a quick fix, only Ron goes from a bad predicament to a lethal one in mere moments. “That was a really fun scene,” Grint said.

Also, MTV has a related article posted where fans react to the newly released trailer. Some are excited about it, some loved it while others were not that excited. Here is an excerpt:

“I thought this was a bold move and a wise choice,” said Kristina Horner of the wizard-rock band the Parselmouths. “And it’s a wise choice. He’s easily one of the most fascinating characters in the book. Young Tom Riddle is all the right amounts of crabby, stubborn and adorable — which will make his story even more tragic.”

Since the trailer presented that concept with Riddle’s words as a boy over images of actions committed by him or in his name later in life — “I can make bad things happen to people who are mean to me” — the effect made it seem more like a horror film, fans said.

Not all fans appreciated that. “Ooh, exciting!” said Sandra Pieloch, a senior designer for Nickelodeon Creative Resources. “Only I didn’t know the newest ‘Harry Potter’ was being directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It feels like some Brit remake of ‘The Sixth Sense.’ ”

“The cinematography is on a much grander scale,” Bensoussan said. “From the graphic effects surrounding Dumbledore to the chilling scene of Bonnie in the woods, or of Ron lying death-like on the floor, ‘Half-Blood Prince’ looks to be bolder, darker and more intense.”

“The movies pale in comparison to the actual books,” said Raina Tinker, a designer at HarperCollins, “but this one looks dark and creepy, which is how the book was.”

Perhaps if they had been, the audience would have been lost. If it takes Harry the length of the book to understand what Horcruxes are, how many there are, and what and where they might be, how can you expect a general audience to grasp the concept in a minute and a half? But if the filmmakers steered clear from anything too clunky for the trailer, they might have done themselves a disservice by not alluding to the mystery.

“I don’t think it was exciting enough for non-Potter fans,” said Finn Vigeland, a 15-year-old junior at Horace Mann. “I don’t think it would attract people who are on the fence.”

“If you haven’t read the books, why would you go see this?” Bartels asked. “It doesn’t move you forward from the last book at all.”

To read the whole article, click here.

***thanks to MTV Movies Blog***

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