I find it incredibly hard to believe that I’ll be sitting in a movie theatre in a little under 15 hours seeing the final film installment of the Harry Potter series. I haven’t really come to terms with that yet. It just seems unreal. Despite all of the hoopla surrounding photo calls, press conferences, etc. etc., it just hasn’t sunken in to me yet. Around 2:30AM tomorrow morning, I’ll have seen all there is to see. There will be no more. I refuse, however, to accept this as “the end”. Because it’s not. Harry Potter will never end in my eyes. It will live on forever and ever in our collective hearts and imaginations. I’m so happy to have been a part of this, and I know I will look back fondly for the rest of my life on these past however many years, and the wonderful friends and memories that have come out of it. On that extremely mushy and much-too-sentimental-for-its-own-good note, consider this my teeny, tiny tribute to that magical place which captured my heart so many years ago: Hogwarts.
“Perched atop a high mountain [...], its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers.”
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Always and forever, Sleeping Beauty will be my favourite Disney movie. From a purely artistic stand point, I avidly maintain that it’s the most beautifully animated film of all time. Forget 3-D, real-D, and all of these fancy-smancy computer-generated graphics. While quite remarkable at what that technology can achieve, they’re more for spectacle and a means to an end. The traditional gouache and watercolour painted slides of the Disney from an era long ago… that’s what I hold in my heart. They’re animation at its most astonishing. Each individual piece is a work of art in itself, all comprising a visually breathtaking story from start to finish.
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14th February 2011
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Just a few of my favourite (film) love stories. In black & white because somehow things seem so much more magical and romantic in black & white.
Elizabethtown
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18th November 2010
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There are no spoilers in this post for Deathly Hallows Part I! Though I have read the book and know what happens, I still do not want to know what happens in the movie, so please do not share anything about the film, even reactions. I don’t want to know if it was good or bad, whether you liked it or didn’t. I’m sure others reading this post will appreciate this as well. Thanks in advance. :)
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It’s almost Deathly Hallows day! This probably means nothing to you if you aren’t a Harry Potter fan, so I apologise in advance. But I’m super excited, and a tad saddened, about the first installment of the final film that’s out tomorrow. Excited to see the wonders of the final book brought to life on film (I’m still reeling from seeing the exhibit back in May. I was completely awestruck.), but also sad knowing that this is the beginning of the end of the film series. I’ll miss having something new and shiny (and magical!) to look forward to. Though I will always cherish the books and the movies. In a way, I grew up with these books/movies, so they’re very dear to me. And while I prefer the story lines of the later novels, the first in the series captures a special sort of magic for me, I think because it starts to lay down the groundwork of the mythology of the series. For that very reason, The Philosopher’s Stone holds an extra special place in my heart.
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