Review: Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1 and The Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2.

The Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1 and The Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2 are both fantasy movies and both directed by David Yates. The movies are based on the seventh and final novel in the Harry Potter’s series, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, written by J.K. Rowling and published worldwide in 21 July 2007, at midnight.

The book broke selling records then it has become the fastest-selling book in all over history. The novel had 11 million copies sold in the first 24 hours after being published. What happened with movies wasn’t that different, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1 broke the record for the highest midnight gross in IMAX, with $1.4 million in box office sales. The records of the movie were later topped by its sequel Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2 in 2011.

Both parts were written by Steve Kloves and produced by David Heyman, David Baron and J.K. Rowling. The movies start Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, Emma Watson as Hermione Granger and Rupert Grint as Ronald Weasley.

In Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1, Harry, Rony and Hermione are aware of their mission on research the Horcruxes, which are objects that keeping save parts of Voldemort’s soul. The final battle between the good and the evil forces of the wizarding world with Harry and Voldemort as the leaders from each side begun once. Harry completes seventeen years and as a result he had not the protection from his uncles’ house anymore – the protection which his mother gave to him when she died. Eventually he is escorted by his friends from The Order of the Phonenix as far as The borrow – the Weasley’s house. In this course, the good ones lost two partners: Mad-Eye Moody and Edwiges. Since they are already at The Borrow, Rony’s family and the other Order’s members are involved with marriage of Gui and Fleur. But during the commemoration, they suffer an attack by Death Eaters. Then, Harry, Rony and Hermione decide it is time to become distanced from everyone and start looking hardly to the Horcruxes.

Their way is arduous and dangerous and for that, they have to move away from Hogwarts and from the people who they love. During this journey, they are faced three magical rarities, the Deathly Hallows, that are the Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone and the Cloak of Invisibility. In this way, they have to keep strong and keep helping each other in those bad times. The friendship's loyalty is contested, because Rony and Harry had a problem, and Rony decides leave Harry and Hermione; this decision affects each of the three in a different way, but all them suffer with it.

After Rony leaves Harry and Hermione, they had bad times concerned with the other people of The Order of the Phoenix, your friends, and about Rony, because they don't know news about Rony.

Rony just returns in specific moment, when Harry was in danger, to save him; Rony told to Herminone and Harry, he was regretful to leave them, and he started to search them against as soon as he leaves. Since this moment Harry was sure that Rony was more than trustworthy, he and Hermione were loyal.

The movie brings solutions or answers to the opened questions which were left behind in the previous movies. Above all, this aspect is very well articulated, it happens in a natural way, during the happening of events. The movie starts to punctuate a dark, intense, and especially, mature atmosphere. The evolution of the characters is clearly perceived and it is easy to see who is in each side.

The soundtrack, the special effects, the picture, and especially, the marvelous acting of all Britain cats’ show exactly what the magical world is living: a disaster.

There is in this movie a special scene, which isn't in the book, but it is a great scene, it was when Harry and Hermione had a dance on the tent; it happened because Harry decided to try to cheer her up because they were very sad because Ron left and worried about all the problems in finding the Horcrux

It is very difficult to mention negative points in Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1. Probably it is the best adaptation of the series. Even after seven books and six movies, in this one, there are still really good values and the main moral is not about magical things, it is love and friendship as the feelings that takes you to redemption.

The second part of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows shows Harry, Rony and Hermione keep on researching for the last Horcruxes: the Helga Hufflepuff cup, the Rowena Revenclaw’s Diadem and Nagini, Voldemort’s serpent. At first, they go after the Helga Hufflepuff cup which they believe it is hidden in Gringotts bank. The goblin Griphook helps them to get in the Bellatrix Lestrange’s vault, but in exchange for the Sword Gryffindor. Griphook doesn’t keep his word and snatches the sword and abandons the trio, leaving them cornered by the alerted security. This is just one of all situations Harry, Rony and Hermione have to think and help each other to get out the mess. They keep on their way which is going to take them, by the end of the movie, to Hogwarts and to the final battle between the good ones and Voldemort’s army.

There are scenes which were adapted and others that weren’t. We can mention, as an example, the battle between Harry and Voldemort, at Hogwarts. In the book, it was very quickly and without details, what has disappointed almost all readers. In the movie, the battle has a longer duration and they worked better the details. A bad example, it was other scene between these two characters. Harry and Voldemort jump together from one of towers of Hogwarts. The special effects to show how their fight happened was unnecessary and let the scene superficial. One of the most anticipated moments of this film was the kiss between Ron and Hermione; all the fans waited for eleven years to see this happening!

This second part has an accelerated time. The scenes and the events don’t have the same aspects which we could see in the first part. There is more action, more deaths and less time dedicated to dialogues. All differences that we can find between both movies are not necessarily a bad thing. The movies just have different purposes. The first one shows how it unfolds the series and particularities about this beautiful story. The second one is the properly outcome of this story.

In general, the best thing about these two adaptations is how both are loyal to the story constructed by J.K., by David Yates, by David Heyman, by the production, by the actors and by all fans in more than a decade. We see, in every little detail, the essence of the story and the dedication of all people who worked to this come out to the screen.

J.K. Rowling was very successful in the end, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows is highly recommended to people who like fantasy literature and who wants to read a simple good book. We can say the same about the movies, it is a good entertaining for all family and for people who love fantasy. Harry Potter is about a modern fairy tale where the heroes have human’s feelings and, for sure, that’s why is going to be read and watched for the next generations with the same passion which was read and watched for ours.

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Monsters Inc. Fanfic

Monsters, Inc. is the biggest scare factory which exists; it is directed by Mr. Waterloose. Located in a parallel dimension, the factory builds portals that transport the monsters for children's bedrooms, where they scare the kids and generate the energy source necessary for the survival of the factory and the monster’s city. Among all the monsters who work there the most frightening is James P. Sullivan, a huge, intimidating monster with blue spots and horns, which is called Sully by his friends. His assistant is Mike Wzowski, a small oval monster with one eye whose mission is to assist in Sully’s job: he prepares, trains and motivates Sully before he enters the child's room, after the fright, he checks if Sully touched or get close to an object of the child's room because they are considered toxic by the monsters who believe that contact with the kids would be catastrophic to monster’s world. However, when they were visiting the human world to work, Mike and Sully met the girl Boo, who has just inadvertently ending up in the world of monsters and causes the expulsion of both for the real world.

When Sully and Mike discover that children are not toxic and that Randy was cheating to be the "employee of the month," Sully decides to become director of Monsters, Inc. and he modifies the enterprise system. Mike let Celia very proud of him because he helped to unmask Randy and Mr. Waterloose.  Mike asks Celia to marry him. Waterloose becomes Celia’s assistant, she ceases to be a receptionist and becomes aide to Sully, in the direction of the company.

Mike becomes coordinator of the monsters that make performances for children. Randy after being discovered by Mike and Sully becomes "experimenter" doors; his function is to test new doors that do not have a certain destination. When Randy will test a navy blue door, the system fail, and he freaked out because he was "inside" the door, damaging it with kicks, for this reason it stuck in an unfamiliar place, and can not be found.

Mike fix the Boo’s door and Sully can talk to the girl's parents to ask permission for them to the girl woked beside him. After three attempts to talk to the girl's family, Sully finally managed to keep the conversation without Boo's mother fainted. The Sully’s idea for the girl is that she will be a manager in the new structure of the company, making sure that the monsters are doing the funniest performances for children, because their laughter is much more powerful than the crying, she is also responsible the selection of monsters that will perform for children, their admission test is very simple: if she laughs until her stomach hurts the monster is accepted.

In October, the company has a drop in production, because it is the month of Halloween the new kids in the monster’s business do not always believe it is a true monster, often thinking that is a costume, which makes the laughter produced can not be used. To avoid a bigger problem, Boo still has the bright idea of allowing children to pass through the world of monsters so that they discover the reality of monsters, realize that they are real, thus creating emotional link between children and monsters, and suggests that Mike create a park for monster’s children human’s children, which leverages the "production" of laughter to the city.

Later in that year, Sully received the "honorable monster" award, for his improvements in the monster world, and he dedicated the award to his friend Mike and Boo.

Movie review: The Bang bang club

The Bang bang club is a drama produced in Canada in 2010, based on a true-life experiences of four photojournalists in South Africa, on the dramatic final days of Apartheid. Working for national newspapers and international agencies, friends Ken Oosterbroek, Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva photographed conflicts in the Johannesburg's outskirts. The four gained a nickname of a South African magazine: Bang-Bang Club - a title that was received with resistance initially, but was accepted in the end. This great movie was directed by Steven Silvers, and it was based in João Silva's novel “The Bang bang club: snapshots from a hidden war”. The cast has the charming Ryan Phillippe (The Linconln Lawyer, 2011) as Greg Marinovich, the glamorous Malin Akerman (Watchmen, 2009) as Robin Comley, and the talented Patryck Lyster (Invictus, 2009) as Jim. The soundtrack has Radiohead, Urban Creep and Joe Cuba.

The movie related Kevin Carter's story, who was amazingly interpreted by Taylor Kitsch. Kevin was the prizewinning of The Pulitzer Prizer, with a dramatic photograph about a girl who is dying and a vulture waiting to eat this girl. This movie brings the South Africa political situation on final days of Apartheid through the photographer's eyes. During his quest for the perfect picture, Kevin fell in a clash thinking about his career. One of the hardest Kevin's quote on movie is “They're right. All those people who say it's our job to just sit and watch people die. They're right”. Interestingly, it's when Kevin won the Pulitzer Prize that his moral fibre is called into question.

This movie shows us a side of war we rarely ever see, the side of the photographer shooting a camera instead of a gun. The movie brings to us questioning about how much a life costs. Taking the pictures starts as a way to make money and survive, win awards and become famous. Next, it becomes a movie in which the photographers defend their work, and finally it becomes much more then just taking pictures, they help people understand what is behind the war. Their work becomes a way to educate the rest of the world about what is happening in that part of the world. I recommend this movie because we can see the situation in South Africa, but mainly because we can think about the human being, like what sacrifices we are willing to do, to be the best in our career .