I obviously don't like that Richard Harris died, but I think there's something gained from the 2 different versions that you couldn't get from just one. There's 2 very different dumbledores, the one who's excitable and wants to fill your heart with wonder and say "alas earwax" when he eats the wrong jellybean, and there's also the greatest living wizard who deeply cared for not one but 2 of the most horrific threats to the wizarding world who ever lived, and feels he let both down. Harris never feels fearsome or troubled, Gambon never quite reaches the same levels of whimsy, but dumbledore needs to feel like all of that to be him...
...is what I would say if I ever watched these movies, which obviously I haven't because watching movies is for fuddy-duddies and yahoo's
I have such mixed feelings because I don't want anything to do with the franchise anymore, but at the same time I adore Lithgow and think his performance as Dumbledore will be superb.
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u/fartdarling 21h ago
I obviously don't like that Richard Harris died, but I think there's something gained from the 2 different versions that you couldn't get from just one. There's 2 very different dumbledores, the one who's excitable and wants to fill your heart with wonder and say "alas earwax" when he eats the wrong jellybean, and there's also the greatest living wizard who deeply cared for not one but 2 of the most horrific threats to the wizarding world who ever lived, and feels he let both down. Harris never feels fearsome or troubled, Gambon never quite reaches the same levels of whimsy, but dumbledore needs to feel like all of that to be him...
...is what I would say if I ever watched these movies, which obviously I haven't because watching movies is for fuddy-duddies and yahoo's