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Perfect in Deathly Hallows!

posted 14 years ago by Great_Gazoo
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Part 2 showed he finally understood Dumbledore and gave a brilliant performance despite being in only a handful of scenes. I also thought he was terrific and captured all of the right qualities of Dumbledore in Half Blood Prince.

He was decent in Azkaban, outright bad in Goblet of Fire(thanks to the bad director), was more mellow but still not perfect in Order. But by Half Blood Prince and Hallows part 2, I was convinced that Sir Michael was the right man for the role.

He also seemed to be wearing dirty rags in Year 4 but the costumes got much better by Order of the Phoenix. He even seemed to be channeling Gandalf the White in Deathly Hallows, costume and all!

[–] eddsixpi 10 years ago

Yup. Deathly Hallows was pretty much the only time he gor Dumbledore right.

[–] megalodon5000 9 years ago

What was it that he didn't get right in POA, OOTP (other than perhaps the "don't you all have studying to do" part), and HBP?

[–] eddsixpi 9 years ago

I haven't seen the movies in a while(and yes, that particular scene is a good example) but overall, I felt like he was trying to be Gandalf 2.0 instead of Dumbledore. His scene in Deathly Hallows 2 was pretty much the only time I remember feeling like he really was Dumbledore.