"Hey uh, voldy, which of the Unforgivable Curses should I teach the sixth years about on Thursday?" "...Are you seriously asking me that?" "I.. yes." "You do realize that once Pettigrew returns to me, I can kill you in 20 different ways. I'm the Dark Lord, not a teacher." "..." "...Cruciatus curse."
6:59 "Everybody shut the hell up, because Harry Potter here killed one of the teachers with his bare hands." I really like how this is phrased. It makes it seem like Dumbledore is more focused with how awesome it was rather than Harry being heroic.
Yeah, sometimes I feel like Snape hated James so much because he wanted to protect Lily's innocence, sort of like a protective brother. This is why James' Patronus is a stag and Snape's is another doe. Does are a symbol of innocence and they aren't sexualy attracted to other does. I know people think Snape was obsessed with Lily and she got "friendzoned" but I really think all he wanted was to be her friend. I mean, Sirius seemed pretty obsessed with James too, and they were also childhood best friends
@@aceash459 That's..... actually *_worse_* than Snape being sexually attracted to Lily and jealous that she chose James. That implies that Snape sees Lily more as an object than as an actual person, an object that he feels he should have control over, what with your idea that he wanted to prevent her from "losing her innocence". It also suggests some pretty messed up, misogynistic views on female sexuality.
"Do you think they said goodnight to each other every night before bed, or was it just awkward silence?" That's definitely the question I most want answered.
Only in Gryffindor, killing a teacher would give you a lot of points. I've always thought of Dumbledore acting like Gryffindor's Snape when he was a teacher.
Dumbledore supposedly is one of the keenest and observant wizards in the world. Couldn’t sense the Dark Lord sitting 5 feet to his right during every meal for a whole YEAR.
But he did.....did you not read the 7th book? Lol. He literally told Snape to keep an eye on Quirrel. Pretty sure he had a good idea of what was happening
Exactly! These letters are covering the entire floor and he's beaten to any of them by his uncle as he grasps the air. He seeks, but can't quite find anything.
@@commandercaptain4664 Ha. Now I picture Harry's eyesight being so bad that he's like one of those _Jurassic Park_ dinosaurs who need you to be moving quickly to actually detect you.
Producer: "Can you tell me more about those houses?" Screenwriter: "There's one for the good guys, one for the bad guys, one for the smart guys and one for the irrelevant guys."
i always wished the snape was just a good guy in slitherin. the books almost played him up as such, but ultimately it was a flop. he couldve been a spy. reformed. slitherin couldve been not just a bunch of jerks, but maybe like cunning people, or people who seek power, but maybe for the right reasons? or outcasts. anything. but no. its just like you say. the good guys, the bad guys, the ultimately weak competition for the good guys, and the guys that literally have puff in their name. fans have portrayed hufflepuff as people who lack ambition but not courage etc, which imho is the coolest take on them. and one last side now how t f did rowling justify making hermione gryph and not raven?? like okay sure but also like actually how though.
"Oh, but don't worry, Slytherin is the ambition house, not the evil house." "Oh, so there are good guys in Slytherin too?" "Yeah, like the abusive incel teacher, the drunkard teacher who accidentally caused Voldemort's return and pretty much no one else." "Wow wow wow wow"
“That Hagrid guy shows up and tells Harry he’s a wizard and takes him away from his family.” “Very exciting!” Why am I only just now realising what a terrible message that is for kids?!
it's not though -- it's just pretty much an elaboration on the fantasy a lot of kids that aren't happy or don't fit in or definitely are in bad situations or even are just mad at their families have. Pretty much every other kid gets to be a wizard and stay with their families, including the muggle born ones so it's not like the message is either/or.
My favorite thing about Hogwarts is that the whole series I was thinking at the end all the houses were going to come together but....nope, Slytherins are just all irredeemably evil. And the teachers know this. And they teach them magic anyway.
This was my one gripe with the closing. Rowling kinda showed this split-off with Snape, Slughorn and Draco (though none of their history are clean) but never really applied it to the entire house. Only during a random interview she explicitly stated that Slughorn brought some Slytherins along to help but it would've been much better to have seen/read this when it was happening
@@FirebirdPrince And to be fair to the Slytherin students, it really doesn't make a ton of sense for them to help defend Hogwarts considering how many of their parents are on the other side. Why should they fight a hopeless battle against their own families? There's a reason Aberforth suggesting holding them hostage instead.
I always wondered: since the kids already knew before the sorting, that "There's not a witch or wizard who went bad who wasn't in Slytherin.", what are you supposed to do, when you are put there? It's like, let's foster that child into actually turning bad, since the roots are already there. No need to work against it and prevent future Voldemorts to develop.
@@joelwahlstedt yeah there are endless movies. But i dont think he was planning to do a video on the whole series and then going back and doing them individually. Yes, there are endless movies but there are only a certain number of popular movies he can make pitch meetings for that will pull mass audiences.
But then Dumbledore is like, " Hey everybody, shut the hell up! Cuz Harry Potter here killed one of the teachers with his bare hands! Good job Harry! Here’s a bunch of points! Gryffindor Wins!"
@@escandersanchez65 Yeah, it kinda bugged me that Nevell got points standing up to his friends, but Hermione didn't lose points putting a spell on him.
I have to say that I think the Pitch Meetings need to expand their genres a little. My wife was watching a Romantic Comedy the other day and I found myself dropping a ton of Pitch Meeting quotes that were extremely appropriate. Amazing how many time "so the movie can happen" works in a RomCom.
Considering how horrible some of the spells are in the HP universe I wouldn't be surprised if you'd need to commit genocide on an entire species to create one of those stones.
I just realized how little Harry is affected by the first time he killed a person with his bare hands. That should be sort of...traumatizing? For an 11 year old, maybe?
@@bekkimcgrath why of course it's because she only came up with thestrals in the 5th book lol. One of those things where people have to bend over backwards to try and excuse the continuity issue. Like, uuuuuh, he wasn't really alive/human so it didn't count. Sure
Surprised there wasn't an exchange like: Screenwriter: "So the baby ends up being protected from Voldemort's spell due to her loving sacrifice" Producer: "So the All Powerful Dark Wizard didn't know that Love could stop his strongest spell", Screenwriter: "Well Nobody had every sacrificed themselves for someone else before.... So No" Producer: "A Very Unloving World"
The first part's pretty easy to explain. Voldemort didn't anticipate that because it fell under "things he considers worthless and thus didn't learn about, and doesn't account for." It's probably not a totally unprecedented event, or Dumbledore wouldn't have had anywhere to pull that theory from in the first place. In fairness though, JK Rowling later decided the more exact details of the sacrifice were important, I suspect because she realized this sort of thing would probably have happened more than she'd originally realized.
My understanding is that for the protection thing to work that the person has to just stand there and let themselves be murdered. Not a situation that happens often when someone is sacrificing their life for someone else.
@@minhajnizam5090 Well, in the Books, but I believe the actual Owl they used in the Movie is male. There's a RU-vidr called ColdMirror, who did a pretty interesting Series of Videos about the first Movie.
Eh, technically? I guess, but that statement kinda needs an asterisk next to it when you consider all the accidental magic he does (Olivander's shop and the zoo scene come to mind) and he is shown _attempting_ a levitation spell, though he doesn't complete it.
@@allthelonely4287 It's not exactly clear, though, what constitutes a "spell". Is commanding the broom into his hand by saying "up" a spell, even though he didn't use a wand and brooms in the Harry Potter universe are (possibly) sentient? We've seen that spells can be cast without saying the incantation (i.e. "accio", "stupefy", or "wingardium leviosa") just with a wave of the wand, so does the carnage he causes in Olivander's shop count, since he used a wand but no incantations, or is formal training required to qualify any use of magic as a "spell"?
Considering she introduces things that literally breaks the entire series, yeah. Port Keys alone should've been a fool proof way for Harry's parents to keep him safe AND keep THEMSELVES safe.
I remember an interview with Ryan. He came across as such a warm and humble guy who nevertheless knows his talent for comedy is solid and he's gonna share it with the world. And how much more bearable is this dark world for his contribution?! Hopefully everyone is subscribed to his own personal Ryan George channel with the epic saga of "The First Guy Who..." But he also said he has trouble enjoying movies now that he rips them apart for a living. He's probably doubled the pitch meeting playlist since then. I hope he takes a break soon. He's more than earned it. Imagine the time that goes into these comedic plot dissections ontop of the mere run times. Also, screen rant should be paying his rent for life for propping up their channel
Honestly, because of videos like this, I enjoy movies less as well. Or at least become more critical of it and more often see the plot holes and "stupidity."
I mean... we can nitpick movies all day and night, but part of the fun of movies is the willing suspension of disbelief. We buy into some things not making real-world sense so we can derive enjoyment and entertainment from the spectacle. Star Wars can be inconsistent, but it's still entertaining! I firmly believe you can criticize movies and still love to watch them.
"Wait there are only 7 books, so 7 movies?" "That's super easy barely an inconvenience" "How so?" "We're gonna need to stretch the last book into 2 movies so we can make more money." "Oh ok"
Producer: "Didn't you already pitch this to me as a full series of 8 movies?" Screenwriter: "I'm gonna need you to get all the way off my back about what i've already pitched to you"
Missed opportunity: "And during the entire school year, Harry never came in physical contact with his teacher, even accidentally?" "Uhhh." "I mean what if Harry's hand accidentally touches his teachers hand when he's turning in a paper?"
Me: Wasn’t there already a Pitch Meeting for the entire Harry Potter franchise? Screen Rant: Yes, there is. But, the new Fantastic Beasts trailer just dropped, so I need you to get all the way off my back about that video. Me: Oh, ok. Let me get off of that thing.
He didn't cover half that stuff, like Berties every flavour beans and people being able to identify every flavour. "ahhh, yes, this one is ear wax, from an alpaca if I am not mistaken"
The story of Harry Potter is Dumbledore finding a child in a bad situation (dead parents) taking that child and placing him in a worse situation (abusive parents) then using his popularity as a famous person to get Harry to do what he wants to train him to be able to kill public enemy number 1 by having Harry fight with various obstacles at Hogwarts. Basically Dumbledore is trying to groom a child soldier and the only reason it is considered acceptable is because he kills the big bad guy.
It'd be like if Qui-Gon had only rescued Anakin from slavery with the intent of grooming him to destroy the... oh wait. Uh... just how many non-droid aliens were on that Trade Federation ship when Anakin blew it up? Dang, mentor characters in Chosen One fantasy are kinda messed up when you think about it.
@@ronnieveillon1162 I mean if we are saying that a final battle between Harry and Voldermort was inevitable that's fine but maybe they could have just taught Harry very well how to fight a duel rather than some convoluted plan where dumbledore dies and wands change allegiance and Harry ends up with a wand that can defeat voldermort.
Am I the only one who felt bad for Slytherin at the end losing the house cup. Like okay we know atleast 3 of them weren't great but I imagine the other Slytherin students had to atleast word hard for ALL those points.
Honestly I genuinely want to know how Slytherin get so many points because every Slytherin student we see tend to be assholes and I can’t imagine any teacher other than Snape giving them so many points. Oh, wait, Snape exists. That’s why
Well, no, not really, they all had good intentions and good reasons. Dumbledore, for example, was hoping for the best when he gave custody of Harry Potter to his family (they are, after all, his surviving family). A quite logical move, as far as he knew at the time. His uncle and aunt are the one at fault, though to be honest Dumbledore should have taken back Harry earlier, once he realised they were abusive.
@@leovk5779 dumbledore sent him to family he knew had been abusive to his mother, let them abuse him, and then lied to him about wanting to kill him to kill Voldemort and created no plan or help to find the majority of the horcruxes beyond tasking some children to do it. Snape was abusive, Mcconagal was cruel and didn’t listen. Really the only solid adult is hagrid.
@Alphonse the safest place was to be raised by dumbledore, he admitted it, but said he couldn’t do it because he knew harry had to die and didn’t want to get attached.
@@Primenumber19 Her mother's family was not abusive to her. Only her sister, but they were only children, so Dumbledore hoped the grown-up aunt would be able to overcome the contempt she had for her dead sister and raise Harry with love. He did gave them a stern frightening talking to at the end about being abusive. Also yes as Alphonse said, he had to because of the charm's protection too that relied on his aunt's presence. Dumbledore makes other mistakes throughout the books, but I never saw it as him being terrible, only him being human and not all-knowing. Despite how wise he appears, he is not omniscient, but in the end, his plan worked (though it required a lot of suffering by Harry, yes.) McGonagal is never cruel, she does not always listen yes, but I always saw it as her trying to not encourage Harry and his friends to actively look for trouble. If she was enthusiastic about their adventures, it would defeat her goal, keep them safe. No question about Snape, though we do learn why (which is no excuse). Hagrid is great, but he is not always the most responsible, sometime putting them in danger (ex sending them to see the spiders XD).
@@Primenumber19 the reason why he had Harry stay with his relatives is because his mother’s protection would work there. However, did he really even need that protection from birth to Hogworts first year? He really only needed the protection by the third or so movie/book. One last note: Harry learned humility thanks to his abusive environment... I guess that’s a good thing
Please do pitch meetings of these franchises: "Resident Evil" "The Never Ending Story" The "Corletto" trilogy "The Purge" "Insidious" "Paranormal Activity" It's a lot, I know, but endless material for a great series is TIGHT! 😁
V: "I spy with my evil eye...... something green!" Q: **sigh** "Is it a snake?" V: "DAMN! How did you...... nevermind" **silence for a few minutes** V: "I spy...." Q: **even louder depressed sigh**
@@GS-lq2is Agreed that the screenwriter is good. The producer guy, in addition to being a hack, is just plain ugly. Whereas the screenwriter guy is an attractive stud, much better than that hideous sight of Producer Guy.
Well, since they want to limit muggle magic exposure a howler would be a big give away if some got caught in a breeze and ended up on other people's door step.
I think the greatest (and most meta) joke of them all is realizing how so very many of these movies *succeeded anyway* even with all their potential plot holes and occasional creepy implications when certain parts are examined too closely.
“Harry killed a teacher with his bare hands!” “Oh my God!” “No, see, that’s a good thing.” “Oh, okay. I was worried for a second that wizards might have had some means of mind control. But if having an evil warlock’s face on your head doesn’t cast doubts on your free will, then I imagine controlling a person is extremely difficult to outright impossible.” “They learn how to do it as 15 year olds!” “What.” “But don’t worry, they’re also told they’ll be thrown in jail with literal soul-eating monsters whose presence makes people suicidally depressed if they ever do it.” “ _What._ “ “Or if they just get suspected of a crime or whatever. That’s the only form of prison they seem to have.” “ _WHAT._ “
"It's called Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone." "We should change it to Sorcerer's Stone, because it's about magic!" "But the Philosopher's Stone is already rooted in alchemical lore. And there's a popular manga where a Philosopher's Stone was created by sacrificing millions of people to power it." "If it's powered by sacrificing human lives that would show how evil this bad guy is, but I still think we should change it to Sorcerer's Stone." "Well okay then!"
Gonna repeat myself: I'd love to see some pitch meetings for older classics like Psycho, Citizen Kane, 12 Angry Men, The Godfather, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Casablanca, etc...
And everybody wants these letters of transit, because they let you go anywhere, no questions asked! Is that a real thing? No, but we need it, so the motion picture can happen!
Hey Ryan, interesting you called Hedwig ‘he’ because even though she’s canonically female, all of the owls that played her were male because only the male snowy owls have mostly white feathers.
In a video recently posted by someone whose entire channel revovles around Harry Potter (Cherry Wells), she also referred to Hedwig as being the gender she is not. Just because it's been fourteen years since people read the last book doesn't mean they can get the Norbert/Norberta thing mixed up with Hedwig.
"What's it called?" "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone." "That's a big word, let's call it the Sorcerer's Stone instead." "Are philosophers and sorcerers the same thing?" "Not even close." "Oh okay."
@@anvos658 Uhm. 7 months later and you're here to say... what, exactly? The original was in British English, so it's not a case of "American to British", and my comment was regarding the fact that they're not the same thing in different dialects, they're very different things in BOTH languages.
“Doing one pitch for each of the 8 movies is super easy. Barely an inconvenience.” “No. That’s not true at all. These pitches take a very long time to film and edit.” “Whoops!” “Whoopsie!”
Well technically being in Slytherin didn't automatically make you evil, JK Rowling is just terrible at nuanced writing so it ended up that way. Woulda been interesting to see more from Slytherin then "The Evil Kid House" but oh well.
@@Capta1nTD the book was from Harry’s perspective and guess what? He hated the them. If the books were from Draco’s perspective we would hate gryffindors just as much. It would be ridiculous for j.k Rowling to have a children’s book with a main character more mature and understand then real adults. Becuse he would have to be mature and understanding in order for us to get to see slytherins good sides.
@@Matilda-u5n What does Harry's perspective have to do with none of the Slytherins choosing to oppose Voldemort? They were all either for him or at best too cowardly to act against him. Or was Harry's perspective so skewed he actively lied about parts of the story? The only "good" Slytherin in the story was Snape, and he wasn't a good person he was just so obssessed over a lost love he was willing to turn on his old master to avenge her. So basically he was a SIMP before that term got popular.
"Harry's rich and rich people get what they want" "That is True" Jesus this line almost killed me 🤣 not to self don't eat when watching Ryan George videos lol
It's amazing how I never realized all those years that an eleven year old commits second degree murder and gets completely rewarded for it. And doesn't get PTSD or anything
"And here we have this Wizard called Dumbledore, and he wants to leave little baby Harry with this family, but he doesn't want to be seen doing magic in the Suburbs". "So what does he do?" "He does some magic in the Suburbs". Literally the best line in the whole video.
There should be a rule saying that there should only be one movie by Pitch Meeting (no cramming several movies in one single meeting) and that if Ryan does a Pitch Meeting for an individual movie of a franchise he is obligated to make individual Pitch Meeting videos for the rest of the franchise too. Following all the storyline in Pitch Meetings is tight!
To be fair, Harry making a total mess of Ollivander's shop is really of no consequence - it can be cleaned up literally with a wave of a hand (holding wand). Repairing wands would be an issue but they just flew off the shelves, so I doubt anything happened to them.
Is it weird that my heart fluttered a bit when Ryan said "I miss you"? That's totally normal right? Not something to be concerned about as an indicator of deeper underlying issues, right? Guys?
Yes, he was, if you read the books you would know this, I suppose the movies don't explain things well enough, the reason Harry has to live with the Sursleys in spite of all they do to him is that with family he is protected from Voldemort, witho ther wizards he wouldn't be. And for whatever reason the Potters are all gone. Probably all died in the Second Wizarding War.
been a potterhead my entire life and just now for the first time you made me think about how Quirell could not sleep on his back because he'd suffocate Voldemort. I'm actively picturing Quirell now lying on his side with a book in front of him and one propped up so Voldemort can read and when he reaches for the light Voldemort is like "don't you dare, I'm still reading here" - "but I got papers to grade tomorrow!" - "What has ever lead you to believe possibly inconveniencing you is a concern of mine?"
To be fair on the 'killing Quirrel' thing, I'm fairly sure hosting Voldemort was slowly killing him, isn't that why he was drinking Unicorn Blood, so he would've died anyway, plus he WAS actively trying to kill Harry at the time.
@@jamieelsayed608 Yup! Apparently the publishers thought "Philosopher" would bring images of old boring dudes whereas "Sorcerer" would sound cooler, and elicit a better response.
@@catch_0227 That's a question I've never considered... HOWEVER according to Wikipedia... YES!!! "Because the American title was different, all scenes that mention the philosopher's stone by name had to be shot twice, once with the actors saying "philosopher's" and once with "sorcerer's"."
You forgot the part where a gigantic homeless looking stranger shows up and bullies the family into giving up custody of Harry so he can take Harry to a "Magic Alleyway"
Fun fact: In the uk it was called the philosophers stone but was changed to sorcerers stone in the US because the marketing team was worried not many Americans would know what a philosopher was
It wasn’t necessarily because we wouldn’t know what a philosopher is, but more because sorcerer just sounds much better. I mean we take those classes in school you know. 😊
@@gurotsk8005 u have no idea what the joke is either do u ? I guess whoever edited it was supposed to show Hagrid waved wierdly but due to a misunderstanding they thought Harry was waving wierdly
So if Harry just handshaked professor Quirrell he would just turn into dust? "Hi, Harry, I'm professor Quirrell, nice to meet... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
Questioning a middle aged man being a rat on a boy's crotch and then a man attached to another mans daily relationship is perfectly sensible I'd say. Never thought about it all til now
Gets better. The Twins nicked the Marauder's Map in their first year. Which means they watched Percy sleep with a dead man for two years, then saw the dead man move in with Ron and didn't say a word.
oh man, you missed the perfect gag where after Pitch Guy says the title "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone" you could have Producer Guy say "what's a philosopher?" and then have pitch guy say "oh sorry, those were the British notes. it's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"
