So Albus dispatches Newt and his brother, Ministry of Magic operative Theseus (Callum Turner, Emma) the wizard Yusuf Kama (William Nadylam), who's been embedded in Grindelwald's dastardly circle the baker Kowalski and the elegant professor and witch Lally Hicks (Jessica Williams, bringing a lively jolt of sass to the proceedings) to bring the Grindelwald problem to an end. Albus would take on this mission himself, but he and Grindelwald set up a blood pact in their youth that prevents them from ever fighting each other. And what are they scurrying after? Well, Albus wants them to lay hands on Grindelwald, who's plotting to steal an upcoming election to pick a new supreme wizard and then to go all Nazi (the year is 1927) and impose his will on both the magical and the Muggle worlds.
Just the prospect of chasing around after all these characters is taxing in advance, especially since so many of them are scurrying very far afield, through the magical precincts of Paris, Berlin, New York, and-what the hey-Bhutan. But how many casual viewers, four years after the last Fantastic Beasts film, will clearly remember Jacob's love jones for half-blood sorceress Queenie Goldstein (Alison Sudol) or Queenie's sister Tina (Katherine Waterston), for whom Newt pines or maybe the meaning of the term Obscurus (think Credence Barebone-played by Ezra Miller again, the darkly troubled young wizard who is actually, as we learn here, an unloved member of a prominent magical family). Loyal fans will already be familiar with Dumbledore and Newt Scamander-the magical-creatures keeper played by Eddie Redmayne-and maybe Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler), the lovable Muggle baker who has blundered into Rowling's wild world of wizards and witches.
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What this third Fantastic Beasts movie does have, once again, is an overabundance of both characters and plot. So the gay thing isn't much of a secret (although it will be in China, where the government demanded and received cuts of that plot point). ("I would have told you earlier if I knew it would make you so happy," she said.) Rowling already gay-conned Dumbledore for an approving book-tour audience back in 2007. Even the long-awaited acknowledgement that Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law), the future Hogwarts headmaster, once had a gay schoolboy affair with future fascist Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen now stepping in for the departed Johnny Depp) is hardly unexpected. Hermione mentions that "There are mountain trolls riding Graphorns through Hungary" nearly 100 years later in "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.There aren't a lot of surprises in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. If they were indeed the last pair of breeding Graphorns, then Newt's preservation efforts seem to have worked. As he and Jacob feed the small family that stride over to them in the magizoologist's suitcase, Newt explains that he has the last two breeding pairs in existence, and they were near extinction.
Maybe they understand that he's trying to help them, because if there's any creature that exemplifies Newt's mission, it's the Graphorn.
The guidebook also describes them as highly aggressive, though the family in Newt's care seemed accustomed enough to his presence. It had to be intimidating at first glance but also endearing and nurturing with strong family bonds." In describing their design for the film, visual effects artist Rob Jensen explains in "The Art of the Film: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," that they wanted the Graphorn "to move like a cat but be big and powerful like an elephant or rhino. The clouds he has created flash the same blue as the venom, and the rain that falls wipes away all memory of the Obscurus from the minds of the No-Majs. At the end of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," Frank carries a vial of Swooping Evil venom into the sky, where he seems to take a bolt of his own lightning. Newt writes that the creature "is so sensitive to supernatural danger that wands created with its feathers have been known to fire curses preemptively." It's not entirely clear how the Thunderbird's powers work, but apparently they can be melded with other magic. They're closely tied to Native American wizards and witches, which makes sense as in the real world, thunderbirds are some of the most recognizable Native American symbols on the planet. Newt's whole point in coming to America was to return Frank to his native habitat in Arizona, which is, he writes in his "Fantastic Beasts" book, where the creatures are most plentiful.Īnd just as Phoenix feathers impart incredible power to wands, so do Thunderbird feathers.
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