![]() ![]() Rowling keeps trying to make him and the mysterious Credence (Ezra Miller) the narrative’s twinned center. That the contents of Newt’s suitcase are consistently more interesting than he is remains a problem, too. It’s so freighted with foreboding that even the would-be whimsy feels leaden. By the time Newt materializes with his magical suitcase, where he often keeps his roaring, scuttling menagerie (mostly, sometimes) contained, the movie already seems like a series finale. The bad times rush in along with the assorted villains bringing escalating violence. ![]() (The influences flatter but don’t overwhelm readers, and offer different interpretive portals into the tale.) Given some of these influences, it’s no surprise that the series is touched by death given the arc of history, it’s also no surprise that it has morphed into an apocalyptic war story.Ī bleak, violent end - and the intimation of a worldwide cataclysm - looms from the very first scene of “The Crimes of Grindelwald.” Directed by David Yates and written by Rowling, the movie opens with a fierce, visually chaotic prison break that springs Grindelwald and sets the angry mood. ![]() However intentional, they form part of a cultural database, which is as smart as it is appealing. Traces of the Bible, Shakespeare, Tolkien and other Western-lit staples are sprinkled throughout that series and therefore this one, too. Rowling is a literary magpie and first-rate synthesizer, and her stated inspirations for the Harry Potter books range from classical mythology to Jane Austen. ![]()
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