Oh, The Artist is one of those (many) films I keep meaning to see. It looks really good. Based on your rec, I must definitely try and catch it.
It's because the scene on the bridge feels like the true and proper end to the films.
Yeah - everything that happened in the epilogue (ships, kids, Hogwarts: The Next Generation) you could extrapolate from the last chapter...but it still left things open enough that you could play in that universe. (I think JK Rowling just mentioned Luna/Neville in an interview...it wasn't in the epilogue, was it? Shows how often I've read that part, huh?) The epilogue just kind of...closed everything off. Eh :/ And like you said, it just wasn't necessary! It almost takes from the lovely last chapter, which would've made a really strong ending.
All in all, I'm taking my Avatar: Last Airbender solution and applying it to this by pretending that the Epilogue is really just Harry imagining what the future might be like. What actually happens is up to us. 'Cause you all know who I think he should have ended up with. :-P
Good solution! I pretty much see the movie/books as separate entities too...and the Harry/Hermione dance and the LUNA/NEVILLE stuff was just gorgeous.
It was such a wonderful scene too, with both of them sitting on the stairs together. It's impossible for me to now picture Neville or Luna with other people.
I know! Me too! I love that the movie really just went, "...yeah, these two kids need to be together." And your Luna/Neville story is completely and totally my canon :)
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Date: 2012-06-10 10:16 am (UTC)It's because the scene on the bridge feels like the true and proper end to the films.
Yeah - everything that happened in the epilogue (ships, kids, Hogwarts: The Next Generation) you could extrapolate from the last chapter...but it still left things open enough that you could play in that universe. (I think JK Rowling just mentioned Luna/Neville in an interview...it wasn't in the epilogue, was it? Shows how often I've read that part, huh?) The epilogue just kind of...closed everything off. Eh :/ And like you said, it just wasn't necessary! It almost takes from the lovely last chapter, which would've made a really strong ending.
All in all, I'm taking my Avatar: Last Airbender solution and applying it to this by pretending that the Epilogue is really just Harry imagining what the future might be like. What actually happens is up to us. 'Cause you all know who I think he should have ended up with. :-P
Good solution! I pretty much see the movie/books as separate entities too...and the Harry/Hermione dance and the LUNA/NEVILLE stuff was just gorgeous.
It was such a wonderful scene too, with both of them sitting on the stairs together. It's impossible for me to now picture Neville or Luna with other people.
I know! Me too! I love that the movie really just went, "...yeah, these two kids need to be together." And your Luna/Neville story is completely and totally my canon :)