Snape's Death in DH Part 2 Movie

[karentheunicorn.livejournal.com]

This is a movie spoiler so don't read it if you don't want to be either surprised or disappointed.


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."

Comments

[borg-princess.livejournal.com]

You know what, I totally agree with you on the crappy writing- but this the ONE case where I'm thankful for it. Because it means there is still room for my head canon to be plausible. If he'd been AK'd, he's dead and gone, there's little-to-no room to fix that. But a snake bite? On a Potions genius like Snape? Well, there's always a chance he might've taken an antidote or something... (none of the trio bother to take a pulse, they don't know he's dead, just that his eyes are blank- which, er, they were so blank and lifeless that Harry was surprised when he spoke a few minutes earlier, so that's not conclusive!)

So yeah, I'm hoping this ambiguous (to a fan of the character! Obv everyone else is happy for him to die *wibbles*) death remains.

[madderbrad.livejournal.com]

Yes, I've seen that loophole exploited a couple of times. Long live fan fiction!

But, while you and the fanfic authors are profiting from Rowling's lousy writing, that doesn't affect in the slightest that it is lousy. You're just looting the premises after the walls have crumbled. :-)