Snape's Death in DH Part 2 Movie
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I'm not sure if it's okay for me to post about the movie as I know this group seems to be mostly about the book. I actually already knew about this change a while back and have discussed it already but not in this group, and now it's sort of been made official.
I wanted to share simply because I wondered what some of you thought. Personally it sounds like a weird change. I am not as picky on the location but then again, it sounds like from what I read there is something wonkey going on with how the death actually happens to. Although it's a pretty hard to understand explaination but anyway I've copy and pasted the info from the mugglenet page below. And if we're not supposed to post movie stuff then please let me know, I just thought it was a unusual change and wondered what everyone thought about it.
'Harry Potter' Art Director reveals new death scene for Snape in 'Deathly Hallows - Part 2'
Andrew Ackland-Snow, the art director for the Harry Potter franchise, has revealed that Severus Snape will have a death scene in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 which is different from what's found in the book.
SPOILER WARNING
"We wanted to change a bit where Snape dies. In the book, he dies on the Shrieking Shack, and we wanted to get him out from, not a conventional interior, but from that kind of box, to do it in a more dramatic atmosphere. We asked J.K. if she agreed for that to happen in there, because we hadn't really seen it before. We made a crystal house, and you can see what happens in the boat house from there - Are you listening Harry? -, but also the school is in flames...and she loved it. Besides, it's a very romantic place to die. Snape dies in a extremely good way, I gotta say."
You may remember set designer Stuart Craig commented on Snape's death scene last February, commenting: "The last time I cried was a few days ago when we filmed the death of Alan Rickman's character, Snape. It's quite difficult to cry in rushes -- where we watch the previous day's work -- but he is an extraordinary actor and he dies an extremely good death."
I'm not sure if it's okay for me to post about the movie as I know this group seems to be mostly about the book. I actually already knew about this change a while back and have discussed it already but not in this group, and now it's sort of been made official.
I wanted to share simply because I wondered what some of you thought. Personally it sounds like a weird change. I am not as picky on the location but then again, it sounds like from what I read there is something wonkey going on with how the death actually happens to. Although it's a pretty hard to understand explaination but anyway I've copy and pasted the info from the mugglenet page below. And if we're not supposed to post movie stuff then please let me know, I just thought it was a unusual change and wondered what everyone thought about it.
'Harry Potter' Art Director reveals new death scene for Snape in 'Deathly Hallows - Part 2'
Andrew Ackland-Snow, the art director for the Harry Potter franchise, has revealed that Severus Snape will have a death scene in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 which is different from what's found in the book.
SPOILER WARNING
"We wanted to change a bit where Snape dies. In the book, he dies on the Shrieking Shack, and we wanted to get him out from, not a conventional interior, but from that kind of box, to do it in a more dramatic atmosphere. We asked J.K. if she agreed for that to happen in there, because we hadn't really seen it before. We made a crystal house, and you can see what happens in the boat house from there - Are you listening Harry? -, but also the school is in flames...and she loved it. Besides, it's a very romantic place to die. Snape dies in a extremely good way, I gotta say."
You may remember set designer Stuart Craig commented on Snape's death scene last February, commenting: "The last time I cried was a few days ago when we filmed the death of Alan Rickman's character, Snape. It's quite difficult to cry in rushes -- where we watch the previous day's work -- but he is an extraordinary actor and he dies an extremely good death."
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Date: 2011-01-19 12:46 am (UTC)I don't know what I feel about it. I get the idea, the concept but I really don't know how changing the setting makes how Snape dies more romantic. Maybe it's just me being a Snape fan and that I didn't like how he died anyway.
But the dude says: Besides, it's a very romantic place to die. Snape dies in a extremely good way, I gotta say."
What is really romantic about Snape's death. Okay, so I'll give that in the Prince's Tale we learn about his loyalty to Lily but all that stuff comes after his death.
To me there shouldn't be any kind of romantic feel to his death. OR that it's a extremely good way to die? really? I mean seriously does anyone want to die the way Snape died.
His death at least in book seems like a frightening, sad, pathetic, dark, terrifying way to die. Being attacked by a giant snake and bleeding to death with nobody to help you and you are all alone till 'the hero' shows up. I mean, It doesn't seem like you'd want to visually portray that as 'romatic' and I don't know about anyone else but I don't see that as a good way to die or that it should be portayed that way.
Plus at that point we're not supposed to be thinking Snape is good right? At that point we know nothing.
Anyway, I could say more but my train of thought is just stuck on whats good about how Snape dies or how it can be viewed romantically at the moment he is dieing =p
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Date: 2011-01-19 01:55 am (UTC)It's not the definition of "romantic" meaning snogging a Significant Other, it's the definition meaning a place that is exciting and/or adventurous and/or mysterious...
I mean seriously does anyone want to die the way Snape died.
Cleopatra? Shakespeare made it work. :-)
(altho recent historical discoveries tend to put the She-Killed-Herself-With-An-Asp story into question)