In the first Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince TV Spot Warner Bros. wound back the darkness and action in favor of teen romance. In the second TV spot they’ve done the reverse. Watch it now:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opens in theaters Wednesday July 15.
Warner Bros. have wound back the darkness and action in favor of teen romance in their first TV Spot for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Watch it now:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opens in theaters Wednesday July 15.
Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) with Ron's sister Ginny (Bonnie Wright)
The recent trailers for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince have been excellent, painting a picture of the new film to be very dark and filled with magic based action. However, this is not entirely the theme of the movie.
The first few trailers released for the movie were far from dark, instead showcasing a more romantic and comical element to the film. In a recent interview with Sci Fi Wire, Director David Yates has shifted the ‘romantic’ perception of the film a step further by referring to the Half-Blood Prince as ’sexualized’.
“It’s actually about sex, potions and rock ‘n’ roll,” says Yates. “It’s a wonderfully fun, slightly rebellious, quite naughty stage of teenage life. When you’re kind of discovering the opposite sex. … In the previous film, it was about the first kiss. This film is a bit more sexualized than that. You know, in a way. We don’t see sex, but it’s kind of in there. And the relationships are a bit more complicated and romantic and convoluted. So we’re pushing into new emotional and kind of physical territory for Harry Potter, you know, in a way, so it’s quite playful and fun.”
And what does he have to say about the comical side of the film?
“The previous film was, you know, we really enjoyed making the last film. … I liked the intensity of the story that we did last time. But … this has intensity, but it’s very playful, and there are some terrifically funny scenes. And six is a much lighter, more playful book than five was.”
He goes on to say, “It still has some tremendous intensity at the end of the story, but it’s got lots of laughs, too, and for me as a director, what’s lovely is to change gears a little bit, and that’s why I wanted to do it. I didn’t want to make a kind of film about teenage angst; I wanted to make a film about teenage romance, and so, when I took over for Mike Newell—Mike Newell did the fourth film—I said, ‘You [got a chance to do] the kind of teenage love side of things, and so now I’ve got a bit of that to do.’ And it’s really fun to come back and do it.”
Read the full interview at Sci Fi Wire.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opens in theaters Wednesday July 15.
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