The Pale Blue Eye | Official Teaser | Netflix

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West Point, 1830. A world-weary detective is hired to discreetly investigate the gruesome murder of a cadet. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case - a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.

Coming to Netflix on January 6.

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[ahkna]

Harry Melling is doing quite well for himself.

The Harry Potter sets really must have worked hard to make the kids feel welcomed and encouraged. Just that so many of them have grown into well-adjusted adults who still like to act says that the adults on set, especially the actors, must have made a real effort to care for and nurture the kids.

[lydzi]

Ia. Considering what Daniel Rad. said, Christopher Columbus was a blessing in those regards.

[la_loony]

I always wonder what the rest of the series would've been like if they had kept him as a director.

[brokecouture]

So much better probably

[masterofmystery]

i know people whined his movies didn't have the magic of cuaron or maturity of yates, but he's like the only one who did a proper adaptation of the books without it being a baffling clusterfuck

like with columbus you can tell he actually cared about the story

[la_loony]

I don't get why people loved Cuarons take, Cuaron didn't bring the magic, instead he brought the ruin of Ron and Hermione by not letting them be the characters they are in the books.

Totally agree, Columbus cared about the story and while it gets a lot in the later books, he would've probably managed it better than all the others.

[evilyn_1007]

I consider the first two the only ones that capture the magic and wonder of the series.

[ahkna]

It reminds me of Tyler James Williams, himself a former child actor, talking recently in an interview about how a lot of the kids on Abbott Elementary are there for some extra work and it's just something that they'll do for a bit, but that he tries to mentor the ones who are maybe a little more interested in acting than the others.

I like that.

[masterofmystery]

like the person above said, columbus played a huge hand in that. the biggest diff is that he treated them like kids first, who just happened to be actors in a movie. and so that changed their perspective of growing up on screen.

i mean it's not like they didn't have problems going up (dan and tom felton said they had huge alcohol problems growing up) but they're overall decent people

[ahkna]

I think the later movies would have had to continue that too. Because they would have been only 12 or 13 when other directors took over, which is a super vulnerable age for kids because it's when adults start to take more active sexual advantage of them.

I wouldn't necessarily say fame had something to do with their alcohol issues though, just because as long as we live in an alcohol culture it will continue to be claim victims. Especially in the UK where alcohol culture is absolutely out of control to a deranged level, and you can legally drink at a younger age.

[masterofmystery]

i think with dan he was open about the fact that when he was around 16 or so he started hanging out with older people in the business, where it was normal to have drinks over meetings etc, and since he's always had a bit of an old soul he just jumped into thinking that was the norm. and it just went really overboard with him to the point that he admitted he became an alcoholic especially around the time of filming half-blood prince (to the point where if you paid enough attention you could see him totally out of it in some scenes)

[ahkna]

Yeah, 16 is when you can have alcohol in public if you're with an adult in the UK so that makes sense. Teenage binge drinking is so ubiquitous.

Personally, I'd consider that deeply predatory behaviour because allowing a kid to drink because they're with an adult is a way to gain the kid's trust and adoration by "treating them like adults" while at the same time manipulating them.

[masterofmystery]

i think he was hanging out with the uk theatre crowd because he was doing equus or something around that time? and i remember some of the names he was around so... yeah not great influences necessarily

[blahblahcakes64]

I'm such a Harry Melling stan. I saw his one-man show several years back and he was fucking fantastic, then incredibly lovely when I met him after. I'll happily watch him in anything.