Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Pitch Meeting

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After a decade of movies, the Harry Potter film series came to an end in 2011 with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2. The whole series was a massive worldwide phenomenon and the final movie alone grossed over 1.3 billion at the box office!
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 definitely raises some questions though. Like why is Harry getting strategic visions of Voldemort and not the other way around? Why doesn’t Voldemort send his super important snake away from the massive battle taking place? Why didn’t any of the really helpful magical things introduced in previous movies come into play? Why did Harry name his kid Albus Severus?
To answer all these questions, check out the pitch meeting that led to the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2!
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[@AraghniChatterjee]

Pensieve being called as "Bowl of Backstories" is just sheer brilliance right there..

[@SnobbyRobbie]

Or BoB for short

[@prashantdeopa9809]

Definitely using that from now on.

[@alexneill8338]

I always thought of it as “Harry Potter and the Basin of Exposition”, but the alliteration makes it even better 😂

[@robertAGC]

Completely agree. That was awesome!

[@swatisaini6447]

I had to pause there to laugh🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@davidbuck9040]

Finishing off the pitch meetings for Harry Potter series is TIGHT!

[@RejectedHeroesMedia]

Amazing 😊

[@matthewavery2934]

Oh wow wow wow wow wow, wow

[@whisperienced]

super easy barely an inconvenience.

[@The95th]

Yeah Yeah Yeah!!

[@PitchMeetings]

Finishing off the Harry Potter series is super easy, barely an inconvenience!

[@BenjaminTomera]

"Bowl of Backstories" absolutely killed me. But then Dumbledore said I could come back to life, so here I am.

[@hiplsnols4394]

how hard was it to come back?

[@himanshubhushandubey6446]

Did you see your diseased & stunted nemesis in a foetal position perhaps?

[@alrafidmahadi4252]

Will you ever make a Pitch Meeting for Monster: The Jeffery Dahmer Story?

[@jp3813]

@@hiplsnols4394 Super hard, very inconvenient.

[@mautnorton]

“Would you settle for ‘unconvincing?’” is one of my favourite lines so far.

[@lckaboom6810]

The fact that the final battle of this series is Harry and Voldemort arguing over the terms of service for the recently introduced superwand is still insane to me.

[@belatkuro]

Yep. The final battle of the series wasn't for the fate of the Wizarding World and what both sides were fighting for. It was for the MacGuffin just introduced very late in the story.

[@Shuizid]

To me it's insane that there IS a super wand in the first place. At no point in the movies was there ever implied wands would have any kind of property beyond "fitting materials" for the user. Then suddenly wand-ownership-laws are introduced and a "super wand". How is it different? The only "different" wand we saw was Rons broken wand, every other wand worked EXACTLY the same, it was never brought up that somehow some wands are better than others.

[@Lewkis01]

Exactly what happens when you use the product and accept the ToS without actually reading it. Always ends up backfiring.

[@TomCruz54321]

I also didn't like new mechanics of the horcruxes. I'm positive those things were never meant to be horcruxes, especially the objects from the early books. And people believe Rowling's claims that all of these were set in stone 30 years ago.

[@Shuizid]

@@TomCruz54321 Yeah no - in terms of magic, HP is just a collection of ideas, none fleshed out, none used to their full potential or implemented in a world that actually feels like it itself actually knows the rules. The "secret" magic world randomly decides Muggle cannot see magic (people running into a freaking pillar at a train station) or can (flying cars). They have candy that might taste like literal actual shit, trading cards that most of the time don't show the character, no electricalal items but also no magic equivalent (like security cameras, mobile phones) or just downright worse versions of toys like trading cards where people have to actively look at a mirror to show up. And to this day, I have no idea what the point of the hocrruxes was. Despite having several, like half the series is spent on trying to fully revive Voldi, without ever utilizing them in any way.

[@sifatshams1113]

11 years later, and I'm only NOW realising that Harry caused the brutal death of that innocent Gringotts goblin.

[@countluke2334]

Actually not really, at least not in the book. In the book all the magic, including the polyjuice potion and the imperius curse, wear off when they use the underground railroad and get wet by a waterfall. The goblin chooses to double-cross them and wants to set the dragon on them, so he kind of gets what he deserves.

[@rickstaism]

@@countluke2334 Oh really?

[@bastiandantilus]

@@countluke2334 Can you really "double-cross" someone who used the imperius curse on you?

[@maxbracegirdle9990]

I know it's knocked off when they go through the waterfall, but I'm pretty sure in the movie they just dose him again with it when he starts asking where he is and what's going on

[@lolwhatidk]

@@rickstaism yeah yeah yeah!

[@nathanwinsor1757]

I love that Producer Guy wanted to do with the seventh movie exactly what Voldemort wanted to do with his own soul haha

[@onkelpappkov2666]

I missed that joke, and so I thank you.

[@gunnersubbu]

Underrated comment.

[@arslanafzal1269]

Mann why this comment is so underrated 😂😂😂😂

[@dudedysseus]

​@@gunnersubbuMy thought exactly.

[@dominuslevian9266]

Its what SNK anime producers did.

[@colefonseca1030]

6:13 “So how long do you think it’ll be before we can milk this franchise again?” “A couple years, give or take.” “FANTASTIC!” Nice word choice, Ryan!

[@billmozart7288]

"No one can stop us, ya know, mathematically" great line

[@ImperialWarrior6490]

David Zaslav: *nods in approval*

[@nickatmacomb8965]

That was the best line!

[@iwatchwithnoads7480]

But mathematically they will still converge to 2 parts. That's when get tired of 1/2 of 1/2 of 1/2 of 1/2... of part 2 and they said that's close enough we've seen part 2.

[@donovanulrich348]

The MCU did this You get 1 story, that sets up 2 spin offs mathematically they are unstoppable

[@cdsworkshop2855]

@@donovanulrich348 Which will both tie into the next several films, so you kind of end up forced to see all of it if you want to understand anything.

[@mitchelleasley]

I just realized that when Mcgonagall had that epic moment when she ordered the slytherin students to “the dungeons,” they were just going back to their dorms.

[@davidmcgill1000]

When going to prison is just being placed under house arrest.

[@bryanvickers]

Some straight up Japanese internment camp stuff right there

[@naomisrandomness8223]

In the book they're just evacuated with everyone else. The movies are harsh on slytherins.

[@clarkstrange2142]

@@bryanvickers thankfully it wasn’t Japanese POW Camp levels

[@coolnerdlll6053]

There's a deleted scene where Filch actually locks them in a dungeon cell. I don't know if that's what McGonagall meant or if he was just being mean.

[@shane2799]

I like how he took the time to include details from the books that aren't mentioned in the movies, for example, all the Time Turners being destroyed

[@Krysten55]

I thought that was just a joke... 🤣 I didn't quite get that far in the book yet!

[@Tim_Belay]

I've always been curious to ask someone unfamiliar with books to explain Harry Potter in detail cause I swear the movies, from the last director at least, don't make sense due to all the shit cut

[@trishaeaten-cox4787]

Harry Potter uses the torture curse AND the imperious curse in the book series. both unforgivable curses and the use of any "gets you a 1 way ticket to Azkaban" So what happens to Harry?he uses the curses and becomes the head of magical law enforcement 😂 seems legit.

[@ooooneeee]

​@@trishaeaten-cox4787 yup, that tracks beautifully with police being above the law irl.

[@Harmthuria]

Ok, J.K. Rowling needs you to get ALL the way off her back about that.

[@randomatwork15]

The increasingly crazed look in the producer's eyes at "we could split those two movies etc" is wonderful, really sells it

[@doofus0123]

For some reason, it made me think of "splitting your soul into multiple horcruxes so you can't be stopped." 😂😂😂

[@theperson8539]

It’s actually great continuity, since he doesn’t tell scriptwriter guy about his plan to buy Canada until Fantastic Beasts.

[@michaelanderson6394]

I absolutely love that Ryan pulled out an OLD iPhone when he brought up Angry Birds so that it fit with when this movie came out. Gotta love that attention to detail!

[@colormedubious4747]

Keeping all of your obsolete technology just in case you create a super-successful KZbin brand and might need it for jokes is TIGHT!

[@StarWarsomania]

*looks at my current phone*. Haha, yeah, old…. so old…

[@lolwhatidk]

yeah yeah yeah!

[@Maryokutaizero]

The phone but also the game itself. Nobody talks about or plays Angry Birds anymore.

[@michaelanderson6394]

@@Maryokutaizero Well, I mean, Angry Birds is kind of an obvious reference to. Basically everyone was playing it around then. I’m just more impressed he dug up an old phone for the joke.

[@AshkinsCurls]

“The Bowl of Backstories”😂 YES, the eye color thing with Lily bugged me, they could have changed them in post and still kept her kid actress.

[@saundraschaefer]

Or used contacts.

[@dapperdabber13]

Apparently for Daniel Radcliffe his eyes didn't like the contact lenses so you know I GUESS they had to prioritize his HEALTH over accuracy lol

[@leonglitch]

@@saundraschaefer What if she didn't want to use contacts?

[@CodenameJD]

@@leonglitch Then I refer you back to the first comment in this thread. It's a little different when it's your main actor across an extended series; you've got the actor you want, contacts aren't appropriate, and that's a lot of CGI for a tiny detail where the relevant part is just that they match someone else's. Kid Lily is in a few scenes. If they couldn't get an actress with matching eyes and she couldn't wear contacts, that would have been a much less significant thing to edit. They could have just redirected the budget that was used to turn Voldemort into confetti.

[@eileensnow6153]

@@CodenameJD I mean, not when the source material makes it such an important thematic element. Harry’s green eyes and red Expelliarmus vs. Voldemort’s red eyes and green Killing Curse? But even in the movies where he had blue eyes, several characters said he had his mother’s eyes. There’s no way they couldn’t find an actor with blue eyes to match him, but even if they somehow didn’t, they should’ve fixed it in post.

[@Sly88Frye]

Wow! The way you described how awkward it should have been for Harry to name his own son Albus Severus really cracked me up

[@TomCruz54321]

No student would ever name their kid after a bully teacher even if they found out he was a Vietnam war hero. That was the most unrealistic thing for me.

[@dangerousdays2052]

@@TomCruz54321 There were no heroes in Nam.

[@BradTheAmerican]

@@dangerousdays2052 There was that dude who turned in soldiers who committed the My Lai massacre against Vietnam civilians, but perhaps being at minimum a decent person doesn't make one a hero. And in the end, only ONE dude ended up being convicted for the massacre and had his life sentence shortened to like 3 years house arrest by Nixon.

[@fairystail1]

Remember Neville became a Hogwarts Teacher. Imagine little Albus asking Neville 'did you know my name sakes?' 'Well I didn't Know Albus too well, but Severus. Yeah he was my boggart and one time threatened to poison my rat, gave it the potion and when my rat didn't die gave me detention.'

[@SomeYouTubeTraveler]

Also, Harry's two most deserving dead mentors totally got shafted in the "naming my kids after my heroes" department. "Sirius Remus Potter" sounds just about as asinine as "Albus Severus Potter," but at least neither of those two actively tried (and succeeded!) to make Harry's life miserable.

[@Sydney-wh8gq]

The angry birds part is super nostalgic! Ah, perfect 2011! Ryan did a great job

[@SomeYouTubeTraveler]

The only thing that could've made it better would've been if he'd said "Ya know, we should look into making a movie of this one!" or somethin

[@nicholasho1595]

@@SomeKZbinTraveler "That's a good idea, how about two of them? Made by different branches in Sony and of varying levels of quality."

[@HarmonicWave]

I keep forgetting that when this movie came out it was right after I got my first smartphone, so yeah, Angry Birds was big at the time. I actually got married right before this movie came out too. Hard to believe it was way back in 2011.

[@pjrama1896]

It’s a good thing that they chose “awkward teen romance” for Half-blood prince, instead of Voldemort’s backstory. Otherwise, Harry knowing what each Horcrux could even be would have made sense in this movie too.

[@Black-Swan-007]

I was so looking forward to seeing Voldemort's mother and her family in those memories. Instead we got "open up, you"; "shoelace" and the Burrow burning to the fucking ground for some reason.

[@hiplsnols4394]

@@EEEEEEEE so true

[@hiplsnols4394]

​@@Black-Swan-007 bro same, the hbp was so interesting bc of voldemorts backstory and the directors just removed that entire aspect

[@Jenifer_R_]

This. ALL of this, and the replies. 👏👏

[@wesleyoldham4222]

"So none of the major wizarding institutions check for polyjuice potion. They just can't detect that kind of thing?" No, but they do have is a waterfall that can dispel polyjuice potion, imperius curses, and other enchantments. But it's deep in the vault instead of past the front desk for some reason.

[@miscellaneouscogitations7322]

I guess so the Goblins can keep hidden their method of dealing with would-be thieves. Only the few families who had deep down vaults would know about the waterfall, and even then, they would not necessarily know what it did. So in general, the bank's reputation dissuaded thieves, without letting out too much info on why "you'd be mad to try and rob it"

[@princessthyemis]

oh yeah! But also he's got a point. SHe should have thought of something at the entrance to make their break-in harder...But a huge waterfall at the door would've been a great image! But not having it there is probably to lure any thieves deeper in on purpose, then trap them there--I think that was mentioned at some point in the books.

[@randomstrategy7679]

As every dungeon master knows, you put easy obstacles at the start of the dungeon (ex: "elderly goblin") and small amounts of loot, but then as you get deeper and deeper to get the really good loot, you get more and stronger enemies (ex: "goblin militia" ), boss monsters (ex: "albino dragon") and elaborate traps.

[@michaeldubin4626]

But, technically, this is not a wizarding institution - it's a goblin institution. Clever as they come, goblins... wizards, not so much. :)

[@SomeYouTubeTraveler]

@@randomstrategy7679 Indeed. The majority of thieves prolly make their plan based on the stuff they can scope out at the front gates. If the trump card was sitting right out front, all the groupthink effort would've been put towards getting past it. The Gringotts goblins didn't count on anyone literally riding their trump card to safety (if there's any theme to the Wizarding World, it's hubris of those who enslave those they view as "lesser beings" [and yes, I know it's ironic]). It's for sure true in good D&D, and probably true in real life as well. I assume that the ways to get past most national security things, like the nuclear football, the bunkers of any head of state's residence, or high-secrecy sites like Area 51 go a good 5 levels deeper than whatever we see in the movies, too. No country would be stupid enough to have all their most powerful deterrents widely known about and sitting at the front door.

[@anupdilipkumar246]

It always bothered me that Harry chose to name his second kid after Snape, I get that Snape's sacrifice saved the wizarding world but he and Harry had a horrible in person relationship. Snape could never look past the fact that Harry was James's son and even though he saved his life on multiple occasions, he affected Harry's mental health in a negative manner. Harry wanted to stop the cycle of bullying started by his father but he already did that by making sure Snape was revered at Hogwarts.

[@jameson6930]

Is there an anagram for Snape

[@julrofe]

​@@jameson6930 Penas... perfect.

[@richardmattocks]

“Harry gets visions to tell him how to keep the story going” Genius 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@OnlyAtJaMart]

Ryan continues to get funnier… years at it, and still improving

[@LordVulcan93]

Still no Netflix show 🥺

[@OnlyAtJaMart]

@@LordVulcan93 Pitch Meetings > Netflix

[@LuisSierra42]

being funny is TIGHT!!

[@zunalter]

I hope this isn't soul crushingly repetitive over 200 episodes in, because I continue to love every episode

[@TheQrstOne]

@Jason Martin, I don't think he's doing improv. I think he's carefully researching and writing his jokes. 😆

[@gracealone3659]

The way he mentions the importance of Lily's eye color and shows the boss not paying attention 😂😂☠

[@mr.e7541]

Yeah yeah, I heard, find an actress with eyes

[@jennifere.pergola598]

Also, having the distraction be Angry Birds was a nice, era-appropriate detail 😁.

[@jelita_]

@@jennifere.pergola598 Yes, he had a great excuse for that😂

[@exploshaun]

Why can't they just give them colored contacts, or cgi them in?

[@Varibeca]

@@jennifere.pergola598 Also I believe that even the iphone is era appropriate

[@hunterkiller1440]

"So did you give Grindelwald his redemption?" "Who? That old guy who told Voldermort what he needs to know?" "Ah never mind."

[@bobogus7559]

5:01 I'm surprised he didn't bring up the fact that Dumbledore here looks almost exactly like Gandalf the White. Basically, discount Gandalf.

[@bait5257]

Tf

[@NinjaLobsterStudios]

And he died in a grey outfit too LOL

[@mcash232]

"A bunch of people dying is tight" summarizes JK Rowling's entire guiding theory for the last book very well.

[@CodenameJD]

Well, you see, it's how we know this is dramatic and serious. The story would have felt so light-hearted and happy if Colin Creevey didn't get murdered.

[@as3609]

@@CodenameJD Colin Creevey dying made me feel happier, and my heart lighter, so I'm not sure the intended effect was achieved tbh

[@ffnendhgrgd]

And political philosophy, but whatevs

[@mcash232]

I love listening to the Harry Potter books, but it's still kind of amazing to me how many (for lack of a better term) storytelling 'faux pas' JK was able to get away with and still make it entertaining. "By all accounts, it doesn't make sense."

[@charleslee8313]

It summarizes George R.R. Martin's books as well.

[@MegaKnight2012]

Of the previous established magic items that could have helped in the climatic fight, I'm most disappointed that it wasn't the Weasley's Car that flies out of the Forbidden Forest to run over Voldemort. He wouldn't see it coming

[@TheQuark6789]

That would've been pretty fun, to attack Voldemort with muggle items and have him be caught by surprise because he refuses to understand them.

[@MegaKnight2012]

@@TheQuark6789 And given his hatred for Muggles and Muggle-loving wizards, "Humiliations galore", -Inigo Montoya

[@shantbe]

Lol, You made me spit out my drink! Genius!

[@manom304]

Then vin diesel comes out of the car and says I’m groot

[@jordanbrandon81]

So the ending to Deadpool 2? 'Avada ka' *Beep beep* *Voldermort mangled and crushed*

[@jonasglue]

This is one of the best ones you've made yet, man. "Hm spooky.. spooky. Go on". Every time you make a new one, you deconstruct your own humor a little more, and it just keeps getting funnier and funnier.

[@Independent_Man3]

"No one could stop us mathematically" 0:16 That's actually true, no matter you much you divide by two, each part would still have nonzero length.

[@CrocvsGator]

If you want to make Neville killing Nagini even weirder, you could add that in seven years the snake will revealed to have once been a Human girl who suffered from some uncurable magic disease that made her a snake permanently.

[@latue87]

I wish they'd thrown that in there too!

[@marianap7015]

Oh…my God!

[@TomCruz54321]

Rowling: "I wrote that 30 years ago! It's definitely not a retcon I promise!"

[@saraanic9436]

I hate that they did that in Fantastic Beasts and pretend that it never happened.

[@denizkenger52]

@Productive Centaur she's not black though

[@SecularIranian]

- You watch pitch meetings after all this time? - Always.

[@yannikkarbruggen3583]

Would love to see an Eragon Pitch Meeting. There's so much potential in there to make it a lot better than the movie itself 😁

[@chrishubbard64]

I just farted in my computer chair and it was better than the actual movie. Its a very low bar to clear. But yeah, there is tons of room for mockery, its super easy, barely a slight issue.

[@Jack1994hoo]

as a fan of the books, I agree.

[@Delantho]

there would have to be an eragon movie in order for there to be a pitch meeting for it, unfortunately no such film exists

[@Delantho]

@@Lord_Alzorn disney will find a way

[@MegaKnight2012]

@@Lord_Alzorn Despite having Rick Jordan on Percy Jackson, they're already finding ways to change it. D&D had George RR Martin on the show and they still majorly changed things

[@Matt-lc8qt]

I like how Ryan stumbled over his "let me get off of that thing" line but kept it in anyway

[@zantosender3348]

Funny thing is Harry's uses of the Imperius and Cruciatus Curses weren't punishable by law because Voldemort had legalized the Unforgivable Curses at the time. Edit: Voldemort had fortified Nagini with so many defensive spells that it was impossible for her to be killed by anything but Basilisk venom, he genuinely thought she was invincible. Edit: What have I done.

[@bingobongo1615]

Still pretty damn messed up… but the wizard world doesn’t treat goblins like humans anyhow…

[@DadsCigaretteRun]

Why didn’t he use the spells on himself?

[@DrakeBarrow]

@@DadsCigaretteRun Listen, none of this holds up to even the remotest scrutiny or moment of thought, so I'm gonna need you to get AAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLL the way off my back on this one. (Logic would say he probably did, but it didn't help him against the Elder Wand nuking him)

[@kissadev.]

@@DadsCigaretteRun voldemort is immortal... As long as his horcruxes are in one piece

[@DadsCigaretteRun]

@@DrakeBarrow convenient magic is TIGHT

[@Jbf-76]

"Then, 19 years later, we are going to need pretty convincing makeup work to make them look older. Would you settle for unconvincing? I would. Great"... 😂😂

[@rickstaism]

I don't think Snape leaked out that many before he died.

[@aldranzam3456]

tbh the whole ending scene kinda ruins both the book and the movie.

[@MrHublibubs]

Hey that was a line in the Video!

[@TomCruz54321]

@@aldranzam3456 It also trapped Rowling on who will marry who. For example, I think Newt Scamander should marry Bunty. The actors for Newt and Tina have zero chemistry. But Rowling can't change it anymore because the family tree is already canon.

[@hiplsnols4394]

@@TomCruz54321 wrong movie there

[@MichaelSmith-ij2ut]

4:35 Ryan got himself an OG iPhone just for that bit

[@gridlock489]

The detail of having a period-accurate iPhone 4S at 4:37 DID NOT GO UNNOTICED, Ryan

[@angelicvega7040]

"The Bowl of Backstories" is so accurate and so iconic at the same time

[@collinfiore]

I love that according to the Pitch Meeting Cinematic Universe, Ellie was cast as the younger version of Lily because producer guy was distracted by Angry Birds

[@nicholasho1595]

@Productive Centaur The actress who played young Lily is named Ellie

[@samuel5591]

And Colin is her father, is that what he's saying?

[@joelt2002]

Didn't really matter who played her. Contact lenses would have been perfectly fine. Or even a bit of CGI.

[@stefevr]

are you posting that your daughter played in harry potter on every video?

[@nadavegan]

Cool story bro

[@LPChipi]

I love how Voldemort executes everybody with the killing curse, but just injures Snape so he can have his moment with Harry. Very considerate from the Dark Lord.

[@ijustdocomments6777]

"this kid finds an old sword inside the judgey talking hat and uses that to kill a snake that has a piece of a guys soul in it" And yet, the best moment in the whole franchise.

[@derekbrown3552]

Not listening at critical moments should be the next thing we force Ryan to do in every episode.

[@jewelrodriguez8747]

" That kid is the luckiest" and "would you settle for unconvincing" LOL Producer guy getting ALLL the way off his back about the inconsistencies is TIGHT!

[@drphot6050]

Gotta love the plot armor in that franchise lol

[@how8132]

"Would you settle for unconvincing?" Killed me 🤣

[@miladzarrin5725]

I really hope after some years, they gather the cast around and reshoot the last scene with actual grown-up actors. Would look awesome

[@subtoalbertdrinkwater1552]

R.I.P. Robbie Coltrane ❤❤

[@gorrow1990]

I’m surprised Ryan didn’t mention that it made no sense for Voldemort to allow Neville to give a speech when he was trying to get them to surrender.

[@NinjaLobsterStudios]

Voldemort's reaction in that scene is so funny lol, he's so angry about Neville wanting to give a speech but then he remembers his online Leadership 101 class told him to listen to his followers, and he just delivers the followup line with such deadpan sarcasm

[@xger21]

Voldemort is 100% the type to play with his food, so it's not that surprising, IMO

[@angelicvega7040]

I love how you addressed how they lowkey were prejudiced when they locked up all the Slytherins basically just cuz lol

[@bern9642]

The wizarding world is messed up

[@Dravianpn02]

@@bern9642 rowling*

[@NinjaFlibble]

In the books, kids literally get "booed" for being sorted in Slytherin. Starting that self-fulfilling prophecy off early.

[@countluke2334]

Again, in the books it's only a couple of kids. The majority of Slytherin house, led by Slughorn, join forces with the rest of the school.

[@yourmum69_420]

@@Dravianpn02 even though that didn't happen in the book....

[@gabrielbrennan4149]

The bowl of backstories definitely needs to show up in a D&D campaign 😂😂😂

[@reallyWyrd]

re Imperious Curse: It's weirdly gratifying to finally hear someone call out how messed up it was for Harry to use an Unforgivable Curse. (And in the book he does it *TWICE*.) And of course it was against goblins--- presumably because JK doesn't consider them to be actual people worthy of respect or personal rights.

[@JarmamStuff]

It sounds like a tidal wave of people dont consider JK an actual person anymore. She gets people more spergy than Alex Jones. Dont forget that he also used the toture curse on poor Helena Bonham Carter, but I guess we're trying to make JK Rowling sound really bad because of some petty gripe here or something Humanity was a mistake

[@Gamer3427]

In general the "forgetting" all the magical solutions and such that they introduce over the series is one of the main problems I have with it. Also the fact that in a world with essentially infinite possibilities, the vast majority of magic combat comes down to a generic beam struggle and just using an "instant death" spell instead of the countless other potential methods of attack that magic entails, and that would probably be more effective unless their opponents can come up with a proper counterspell in an instant. Why not use more spells that do things like turn the ground beneath your opponent to lava, or create a vacuum bubble around them, or send physical blades flying at them from behind, etc?

[@32BitJunkie]

I mean if you've got a gun you use the gun right? It is kinda goring though. ...Actually every student at that school is walking around with a loaded gun at all times, when you think about it. School shootings over there must be wild

[@kylecasey9254]

Next week, we'll get the marathon of all the Harry Potter movie Pitch Meetings and we'll all watch it because rewatching things we've already seen is tight!

[@valolafson6035]

It's super easy, barely an inconvenience.

[@buzzlightyear3797]

Twice, kind o.

[@apexnext]

How did you know that would be a thing? 😂 😁👍

[@ToM92MoT]

0:22 I love that genuine anger that comes out suddenly out of frustration, perfect comedic timing

[@ChadDickey99]

RIP Robbie Coltrane :(

[@BlackHei711]

“Albus Rubeus Potter, you were named after two great Wizards I've know, and not after a professor who mostly bulled me."

[@contentcorsair]

Can't wait to see what the pitch for She-hulk is like after THAT finale

[@Xandycane]

Same. That was, uh... erm...

[@guythat779]

Y'all actually watched it to the end? What a bunch of dorks

[@horace6851]

@@guythat779 I actually really liked the series :) but I'm a white woman in my 30s who grew up watching Ally McBeal and comic book cartoons so I feel like I'm the 1% of the population this show is actually for :))) But then, I wasn't complaining when billionaire arms dealer was a main focus, so maybe you also can give She-Hulk some slack?

[@contentcorsair]

@@guythat779 Call it morbid curiousity. Plus, I'm not giving them money for it *cough username cough*

[@Omnimetatron]

@@guythat779 Nah, I do what any sane person would do and wait for a KZbinr to watch it for me then tell me how bad it is :)

[@christianellegaard7120]

You should do some pitch meetings for some of the real old classics. Like Casablanca, The Wizard of Oz, From here to Eternity, or Ben Hur. Or any of the many great movies made before 1970.

[@Usario321]

That would be tight

[@darryldonnelly5363]

And the Godfather

[@TheRPGenius]

Or any of the many more _terrible_ movies made before (and during) the 70s, too.

[@DavidOfWhitehills]

The Big Sleep.

[@misterwhyte]

100%. More classics would be tight!

[@Gogosparkles]

Your show makes me the happiest I’ve ever been while on KZbin!!! Thank you so much for the countless hours of joy!!! Also could you please do a Pitch Meeting for “What we do in the shadows” show or movie doesn’t matter which 😸

[@andershall6774]

I was going to work, but then I saw that you had released a new video. Work will have to wait!

[@BatmanFan76]

“Let’s finish the way we started, together!” - Harry Potter, 2011

[@jlev1028]

Jeremy Scott: Hey, that's what my college ex-girlfriend said when I- SKIP!

[@havardmj]

I'll take "1001 reasons why the books are better than the movies" for 500 please

[@ebraheemfredericks5736]

Lmao

[@BurntMarioisreal]

Yeah so romantic

[@Ru4444]

"Spooky, spooky, go on" part was so funny!!! I love it! Do more of those! 😂😂

[@dahlberry]

The delivery of that was just perfect! Definitely a new main stay, with whatever words fit the format!

[@Heather-fx7sr]

2:19

[@RakeshMalikWhiteCrane]

Well done as usual... but I can't wait for your Rings of Power pitch meetings now!

[@ggt47]

5:57 Should of been Rebeus Hagrid Potter. Again R.I.P Robbie Coltrane.

[@fri8028]

5:18 exactly my reaction when I saw it in cinema

[@joels5150]

Unexpectedly getting a new pitch meeting in the middle of watching a different video is TIGHT!!

[@elastico8576]

We germans have a KZbinr called Coldmirror, and she has a Podcast where she talks like an hour about each 5 minutes of the first harry potter film, analysing everything little detail and talking about behind the scenes stuff, turns out that the actor of Harry Potter is allergic to the coloured contact lenses, which at least for the first movie is why he does not have the eyes of his mother.

[@shalevhaham]

The fact that he just took an iPhone 4/4S to match the time of the movie is amazing.

[@DilonMoodley]

Woah, i realised that when Producer guy spoke about splitting the movies into 2 parts many times, its actually a reference to Voldemort splitting his soul to make horcruxes. Brilliant!

[@matityaloran9157]

1:41, this part is better explained in the books but after Voldemort possessed Harry in Order of the Phoenix and Harry was experiencing feelings of love for his late godfather Sirius Black, Voldemort has been too terrified to enter Harry’s mind again and that’s what they mean by Harry having the power that the Dark Lord knows not.

[@princessthyemis]

yay for book details!

[@SomeYouTubeTraveler]

Speaking of Sirius, he totally got shafted in the "naming my kids after my heroes" department. "Sirius Remus Potter" sounds just about as asinine as "Albus Severus Potter," but at least neither of those two actively tried (and succeeded) to make Harry's life miserable.

[@matityaloran9157]

@@SomeKZbinTraveler Harry’s firstborn is James Sirius Potter

[@SirVolt]

@@SomeKZbinTraveler kinda Wonder why he didn't name any of his Kids "Rubeus": Hagrid was One of Harry's Biggest Friends (literally)

[@saram9434]

@@SirVolt because Hagrid has someone who remembers him and will honor him, albus and severus doesn't.

[@wini600]

0:06 There was an attack on Titan Prophecy over there.

[@sanjeevnagi2782]

i would love to see pitch meetings for Doctor Who's original run, the movie from the 90s, and the rebooted series from 2005

[@DoctorJammer]

It's funny how growing up we all just accepted the idea of classifying the Slytherin kids as evil. But now that we thinking about it, we realize how problematic that is.

[@miscellaneouscogitations7322]

But it was never explicitly stated. It was a house of purebloods and people with great magical talent and ambition. I guess over several generations it became a house of questionable morals because their priorities were elsewhere

[@gtro4520]

Watching the final Potter Pitch before waiting for the inevitable Potter Compilation Pitch is TIGHT 👍🏻

[@TheOrigamiGenius]

I've been waiting for this Pitch meeting for months My reaction: Wow wow wow wow wow wow.

[@Tera_GX]

2:54 I love that you kept this as the final take

[@CodenameJD]

When you're already familiar with the books before seeing the films, it can be difficult to pick out the details the films just don't remotely bother to explain - especially when that's about details previous films didn't bother to explain. Definitely forgot/didn't realise that Dumbledore just didn't bother telling Harry his theories about what could be horcruxes, which is pretty much the only important thing that happened in Half-Blood Prince.

[@maxbracegirdle9990]

The half blood prince was the best movie, in my opinion anyway. It was really cool and I loved what the director did with it, and Snape's book of secrets and curses was amazing (though I doubt he would have just put it back on the shelf, and that no on else had picked it up since)

[@matthewpatrick7263]

@@maxbracegirdle9990 What I can't figure out is why Snape didn't publish a companion to that potions book with all his tips. He'd have made a fortune.

[@maxbracegirdle9990]

@@matthewpatrick7263 Or the fact of how that original dodgy ass textbook got printed in the first place.

[@eugeneaaroniii562]

Yea also how Harry did give Hermione and Ron Liquid Luck before the final battle in the book, but they left all that out in the film

[@DeathnoteBB]

@@maxbracegirdle9990 You ever seen American textbooks?

[@m0L3ify]

Tbh, I'm kind of impressed Producer Guy has a basic understanding of Calculus in this one. Subverting expectations!

[@sandeshhegde2847]

Subverting expectations is Tight!

[@masonlakephoto]

Would love to see you do pitch meetings for all the Conjuring & Annabelle movies .

[@cleverusername9369]

Ya know, after all the weird, suspect, crazy, and illegal things we've heard about Producer Guy's personal life over the years, I'm just glad he's now apologized and acknowledged his need for some introspection and possible life changes that would be not only beneficial, but also TIGHT and super easy, barely an inconvenience. I'm proud of him.

[@wesleyoldham4222]

I liked the part where Neville destroyed the last horcrux. When the prophecy occurred, it could have been referring to Harry or Neville. Voldemort supposedly attacked Harry because he was a halfblood like himself. But Neville still took part in Voldemort's downfall by destroying Voldemort's final horcrux. If I understand correctly, Harry survived Voldemort's death curse because he was tied to Voldemort by having part of his soul, and Voldemort was immortal until Neville killed Nagini.

[@kaeptnstyle4844]

Actually he was tied to Voldemort by him using Harrys Blood for his resurrection and therefore keeping Lilys safety charm upright. But yeah.

[@seiros575]

@@kaeptnstyle4844 I mean both are true

[@chrissonofpear1384]

Neither can live whilst the other survives... And the 'other' other, too - ahem.

[@shane3127]

Harry survived Avada Kavada because he mastered the deathly Hallows. He had the ressurection stone and cloak, and the wand was loyal to him.

[@didamnesia3575]

Yes that is the plot

[@BobbySacamano]

The bowl of backstories is a pretty genius exposition tool. Sometimes in the morning my bowl tells me what I ate last night.

[@yuki97kira]

Thats the toilet bowl

[@himanshubhushandubey6446]

I hope you don't go thrusting your head in this particular bowl.

[@ordenax]

1. Hermione not only wiped her Parents memories off, she sent them to Australia, so that no one could ask them anything. There in book. 2. All the good guys DID fly in different directions. That was exactly the plan. That's what confused the D. Eaters and saved the Good guys. 3. Harry doesn't go the Weasley's house at first. He goes to Andromeda's, Sirius' other sister ( i believe) and from there went to Weasley's. 4. The locket's plan want to strike fear solely. It was to show all things bad that could pass, would pass for Ron, unless he accepted the locket and keep it with himself. The locket would give Ron the strength to get all he wanted. 5. They can't disapparate when the bad guys catch them, as they caught in their tent and then put Anti disaaparate spell around. 6. Harry visions aren't two ways, because it is Voldemort's soul stuck in him. Not the other way round. 7. The Dungeons IS the place where Slytherin lives. 8. At the end Harry comes back because, he is the master of the Deathly Hallows and Voldemort has his blood, tying him to the world. Both at the same time. 9. Harry wasnt lucky with the wand. Dumbledore planned it to be passed to Harry and later Harry figured it out its his too. When talking to the Goblin who takes them to the Gringotts vault.

[@Shortslurpeegirl]

Your videos leave my whole family in tears laughing on the floor! I mean you have a perspective we weren’t expecting on all of our favorites and we had to put on our big girl pants to get over it. And then we rewatched the videos again and repeated all our favorites and then shared them with our friends! Thank you Ryan!

[@zahawolfe]

Press F to pay respects to the goblin who did nothing wrong

[@Pedr4m]

4:31 Shot out to Ryan for tracking down a period accurate iPhone.

[@graduator14]

A magical pitch meeting! And speaking of magical pitch meetings, please do one for The Room!

[@Redcell6A]

2:54 Ryan - you keep upping the ante. Bravo.

[@danielyatesmusic]

Literally at the point where I watch the Pitch Meetings rather than the actual movie when I’m wanting to rewatch something 😂

[@AnythingMachine]

Even in the last few seconds of his life, Voldemort could have won by simply yelling _everyone cast Avada Kedavra at harry_ at the death eaters around him, or else simply casting a powerful reducto or bombarda at the ground around Harry's feet

[@CaptHayfever]

He was too proud & arrogant. That was a consistent thing throughout the series; Voldemort thought his way was the *only* way.

[@KyriosHeptagrammaton]

@@CaptHayfever Plus very few wizards, even death eaters, can cast Avada Kedavra

[@ShapelessIsle]

Cutting your soul up leads to instability. Voldemort wasn't sane and way too arrogant by the end.

[@goodnesswhy]

Writer: "But then there won't be a good ending, so I'm gonna need you to get ALL the way off my back about Avada Kedavra, okay?"

[@AnythingMachine]

@@goodnesswhy _So Voldemort could have just cast any spell he likes at the area around Harry and killed him that way? Yeah but he's not gonna._

[@professorchimp1]

The inclusion of Angry Birds was a great touch

[@edwardp7725]

Considering i';ve watched literally every Pitch Meeting you have made, I would have expected these to become old and repetitive by now. Somehow you still manage to keep making these funny every time

[@TheAeonAnimA]

That “ohh DAMN IT!” was the Second amazing plot twist that I was not ready for today.

[@MrTerrorzone2012]

Thank you for going back and doing a video on every movie! It really is one of my favorite Pitch Meeting "series" never realized how strange these movies are till you really break down all the silly stuff

[@jonathanw1019]

I wish he had included the fact that the last 20 min, literally from the moment Harry popped up from Hagrid's arms and yelled "surprise!", was needlessly different than the far better ending of the book. Primarily, the drawing out of Nevill killing the snake, which was far more impactful when he was being tortured, forced to recall his murdered parents who died in the same fashion by Volde and co, and then pulled sword out of the very thing used to torture him, yelled "surprise." immediately attacking in a moment of bravery and revenge that had finally come to a head. Instead of shocking everyone with such a boss power move, catching even Voldemort completely off guard, he dawdles about clumsily for ten minutes before getting lucky. And of course, the fact that Harry and Voldemort actually had their final battle in the middle of the freakin' great hall, where they had both stood as students and come to love the school, in front of literally everyone left alive, good and bad, in an epic final battle for the ages. Winner here gets all the marbles. There's stakes involved. Instead, it happens out in some random courtyard, all alone, with the pointless melding camera trickery. The whole impact of the moment seven books were building up to was treated as a subtle nod or afterthought. No satisfaction, whatsoever, for Harry, his friends, or the viewing audience. No message to all parties that it ends here, now. Hell, in the movie, Harry walks back into the great hall after defeating V and everyone else was cleaning up. It makes no sense, considering that the good wizards were outnumbered in the book and about to lose, staging a last ditch defense in the great hall, which was stopped by the clash between the two main characters. The script was written perfectly in the book, but they had to alter it for pointless cinematic moments meant to look cool, rather than actually be impactful, meaningful, and satisfying. It's bothered me since I watched it in the theaters the day it opened.

[@DKDynamic1]

RIP Hagrid 💐

[@ethanol1586]

About the felix felicis part, I believe Horace Slughorn actually drinks some and that's why he's left unscathed at then end of the movie. And also it takes about 6 months to brew felix felicis so that's why it wasn't widely available during the battle of Hogwarts

[@CM-pf1xc]

I mean it take months and months to make whiskey cheese and wine but we do that just fine

[@mathastronomie]

Ryan never fails to be funny. I would love to see a pitch meeting on Dune or the boys #suggestion

[@shakeeliqbal6051]

Or the office

[@acelovesdiyschristopher7023]

Or top gun maverick

[@gnocchidokey]

Oh lord, I can't even imagine how uncomfortable Producer Guy would be hearing about The Boys. "But this will make us a whole big mess of money though, right?" "Yes sir, a real prestige drama where a guy shrinks down and accidentally explodes his boyfriend by crawling up his dick."

[@alfredosantana1216]

OR MARS ATTACKS

[@alfredosantana1216]

"And the aliens put the news lady's head on a Chihuahua "

[@thefinestsake1660]

Slept through this movie twice. Now I feel like I've finally seen it! Thank you.

[@DaMorg3]

About damn time! Almost had to wait as long as the wait between the actual films in question!!! Ok but fr tho, thank you for these gems.

[@liamduffy8057]

The “damnit” at 0:23 had me dying

[@wstine79]

Splitting half a movie into two movies is TIGHT!

[@arno7163]

But apparently it was super difficult, very much an inconvenience

[@alisonjones8861]

Loved this!!! Also, where can I get your shirt that says "Super easy, barely an inconvenience"? My daughter and I want it!!!!!

[@cutie_lucia3962]

Hiii Ryan…. I just wanted to say that I noticed that you were in an episode of oddballs and I wanted to tell you that I very much enjoyed it 🤭