I think it's honestly kind of weird that people are mad at me over the obvious fact that I have allowed my anger at JK Rowling's real-life politics to color my impression of her work It's inevitable that that happens, and certainly far preferable to doing the reverse
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Even weirder considering just rereading JK Rowling's work will color your impression of her work in a similar direction
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I'm almost impressed by how much dead air was in the first half of the seventh book She wrote herself into a corner leaving Hogwarts and then proceeded to repeatedly run into the wall until the third act
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The camping scene was an instant classic Everyone got SO BORED Then pop culture kind of forgot about it? Maybe because the movie tightened it up a bit (only a bit) and it became one of those overused things that it's not cool to say any mot because it's not original
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It didn't even make SENSE Like you can tell it was straight-up filler that she wrote in for lack of any better ideas -- just as, in-universe, the characters don't have any idea of what to actually do to track down the Horcruxes -- and then left it
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JK has a weird indelicate way of writing that works for childrens' novels but gets weird anywhere else. It's hard to describe Like I swear JK forgot the Muggle dude was there several times, but the script notes he's there, so he silently follows the action for ages, like a ghost
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The fact that they let her write the screenplay for a massive multimillion-dollar movie without any previous experience writing for the screen -- TWICE -- is bonkers And holy shit does it show in the finished product
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The most Rowling moment in the first one to me is when they do a big dramatic reveal of the villains face to show.hes Grindelwald... Despite NEVER SHOWING GRINDELWALD'S FACE UP TO THAT POINT. I was literally like 'oh it's... Johnny Depp? Fuck." Terrible screenplay
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Yes, this is the point in the book where, if it were a book, it would just tell you "It was the face of none other than Gellert Grindelwald" But it's a movie, and as a novice screenwriter she never figured out a way to show us what his face looked like ahead of time
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Also a tangent but this bugs me. Voldemort basically got radicalised because he went to Hogwarts and found all of wizard supremacy material and the gathered like minded followers in his house named after a supremacist. And even after two near world conquers THE HOUSE EXISTS.
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