Harry Potter Death Scenes - in the Movies *SPOILERS* [ Edited ]

[AlejandroOchoa]

David Yates, Director of HP movies 5 and 6, has done the death scenes of Sirius Black and Albus Dumbledore. Some people say that their death scenes were just as they expected. Others, however, say that they were absolutely horrible! What do you think about David Yates's direction with the death scenes? Also, what do you think he has in store for Deathly Hallows?

[TiggerBear]

Are these on the DVD?

[ConnieAnnKirk]

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AlejandroOchoa wrote:

David Yates, Director of HP movies 5 and 6, has done the death scenes of Sirius Black and Albus Dumbledore. Some people say that their death scenes were just as they expected. Others, however, say that they were absolutely horrible! What do you think about David Yates's direction with the death scenes? Also, what do you think he has in store for Deathly Hallows?

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AO--I just edited your subject line to show that you want to talk about the death scenes in the movies as opposed to how they are written in the books.  Just a fyi so you wouldn't wonder why I was messing with your thread!    Good topic, btw!

[Jules934]

In regards to Sirius death, I felt the book was more of a shocker.  The fighting, taunting Bellatrix and then a spell and a hit and a step backward and         gone.  Just the veil and whispers. 

OtP drew it out longer with the falling and the green lights and Bella's voiceover Avada Kedrava. It struck me that Yates was going out of their way to be sure that we knew Siris was dead.

Then the passage where Lupin was hanging on to Harry, who was screaming for his godfather, to keep him from following Sirius, from falling too.  That got to me much more than the book.  Harry, knowing the truth he did not want to be true, struggling to break free, to catch Sirius, to hold him and save him from the fall.  And Lupin, alone with his tragedy since a child, finding relief for a few years and having it ripped from him with the thought that his friend was a murderous traitor, then learning the joyful truth and now having it again snatched away.  And he, all the while, struggling to hold Harry from the destruction he might have wanted to go to himself.

There, the movie excelled. 

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AlejandroOchoa wrote:

David Yates, Director of HP movies 5 and 6, has done the death scenes of Sirius Black and Albus Dumbledore. Some people say that their death scenes were just as they expected. Others, however, say that they were absolutely horrible! What do you think about David Yates's direction with the death scenes? Also, what do you think he has in store for Deathly Hallows?

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[agnijay]

Oh god. I just know I'm going to cry when Dobby dies, because that was definitely one of the saddest deaths for me. I mean, I love Sirius, but when I read the  books, I was like "Wait, did he just die?" There wasn't much time for grieving.

[Psychee]

Jaya, you didn't think there was time for grieving when Sirius died in the BOOK?   Harry went through a LOT of grieving in the book -- do you remember how smashed up all Dumbledore's instruments and then he tried to get Sirius to talk to him through the mirror, and later, when he talked to Nearly Headless Nick?   I had tears streaming down my face when I read that the first time.

In contrast, I felt nothing at all when I saw the movie death. 

[agnijay]

When I cry during books, which is VERY rare, I generally don't cry when I see the effects, but when I see the cause. Generally during grief, the aftermath doesn't really concern me, but I guess we all have our own way of mourning...? When my grandmother died, I cried more than anyone else for the first 2 days, but after that I was the strongest. Similar to what happens with Sirius again. I guess I didn't really see it coming since he wasn't really a "good" character until the end of the 3rd book, so I wasn't expecting it to be so soon.

[Psychee]

Yes, everyone has their own way of mourning.   I think what was so poignant about Harry's reaction in the book was that he went through all the stages of grief -- the denial part really got to me.  Unwiling and unable to accept Sirius' death as final, he desperately looked for a way to get Sirius back in his life -- He got his hopes up with the mirror but those hopes were dashed.  Then he thought Sirius might be a ghost, and wanted it so very much, but that was not be, either.  The more he tried, the more I cried, because I knew he was just going to suffer so much more when he had to face reality.

[kellybeans]

Although I thought David Yates did a great job with Sirius' death in the fifth movie, I thought he didn't do Dumbledore's death scene justice in the sixth one. The scene where Sirius died was just so powerful and emotional. I just felt like there was something to be desired when Dumbledore died. I really, REALLY hope David Yates does a good job with Dobby's final moments because out of all the deaths that occured in DH, it was Dobby's that had me sobbing. I think it's definitely better they made the seventh movie into two parts!