It would have been better if Voldemort killed Harry, Ron, and Hermione, cut off their heads, and then put their heads up on spikes near the entrance to Hogwarts. And then he enslaves all muggles, throughout the world.
Why???
Not because I don’t like the HP books. I love them, and I love the “good guys” in them. But I’m so damn tired of the good guys beating the bad guys. Just for once, or maybe twice, I want to see the unequivocally bad guys win unequivocally. And I want the music at the end to be uplifting, thereby endorsing the evil-wins conclusion. I don’t want there to be even a whiff of a hint of a whisper of a possibility that good will prevail. That’s why Voldemort has to decapitate the three kids and put their heads on spikes. Oh, and the other good guys have to unambiguously die too--even the animals like Hedwig. Furthermore, it has to be perfectly clear that the heroes of the movie—the characters we are supposed to be rooting for—are just plain scumbags. Utter, complete victory for the bad guys--and make sure the atmosphere of the movie celebrates that victory.
Basically, take every “good guys win unambiguously” movie—all ten zillion of them—and just flip them when comes to good/evil. The rest remains the same.
The movies need to have actors who traditionally play good guys now playing the bad guys. We cannot have conventionally ugly men and women being the victorious villains. Nope, the evil characters have to be played by Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Natalie Portman, Jennifer Lawrence, Leo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, and so on.
And the good-guy characters who get defeated have to be played by actors who have often played bad guys. Tom Hardy, Michael Fassbender, Javier Bardem, Tilda Swinton, and so on will play the good guys who lose. In fact, it would be delicious to take some actors who many people hate these days for a variety of reasons--Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, Kevin Spacey, Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen, and Gwyneth Paltrow--and have them play the good guys who get screwed. That way, we in the audience will feel tempted to celebrate their destruction despite our awareness that they are unquestionably the good guys in the movies.
Why???
Because I think it would do us all some good to get a new, fresh, real-world perspective. I am not smart enough to guess what the consequences of the evil-wins movies would be. Maybe you can guess how you yourself would react. That’s nice, but how would the movie-going public react to the first such movie, in which the ridiculously beautiful, clever, charming, and witty Emily Blunt and Brad Pitt play the evil scumbags who defeat the undoubtedly good characters played by Javier Bardem and Tilda Swinton? Or the tenth such movie?
The director has to be someone who never portrays evil characters in a favorable light. So, no Quentin Tarantino. Again, there can’t be a whiff of a hint of a whisper of a possibility that the evil characters aren’t the heroes, or that they don’t win.
It won’t happen, but we can dream.