Sadly, from this trailer it looks like the film really won't be able to carry the Harry Potter franchise to a satisfying conclusion. At 1:13, when Harry puts his arms around Voldemort to drag him off building, I feel completely cheated. That was the lamest shot of the whole trailer and should have been the climax. I can tell why they didn't use it as the climax (because it's lame), but our senses should be tingling at the end and I just feel like the film didn't have any substance so they just mashed a bunch of over-the-top action shots together to try and build tension and it just falls flat on it's face.
The whole trailer starts slow with a bunch of black fades of disassociated shots that have little relation to one another. They should already be telling a narrative by 0:19 and the only narrative we're seeing is that Warner Brother likes moody shots and their logo to appear before the 30 sec mark.
At 0:38 they're just starting the narrative that Harry let's his friends die in place of himself. However, none of the preceding shots have anything to do with that narrative. Also, Voldemort starts it off by saying "You have fought valiantly", which doesn't back up the narrative of Harry being a wuss. At this point we're 1/5th of the way in and not only do the images contradict the narrator - the narrator contradicts himself.
The whole trailer is actually a narrative mess. It consists of a simplistic message that is backed by random action shots.
This trailer, instead of making me want to see this film in theatres, has made me want to wait until the DVD comes out in case it's as much as a narrative mess as the trailer. Hopefully there will be another Harry Potter trailer released that puts my fears to rest. Even bad movies can have great trailers... so if Deathly Hallow Part 2 has a lame trailer... I can only imagine how awful the actual film must be.
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