All New Harry Potter Thread post July 15, 2011

How did you like DH film, part 2?

  • LOVED IT!

    Votes: 24 66.7%

  • It was OK.

    Votes: 8 22.2%

  • It wasn't good at all.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • HATED it!

    Votes: 4 11.1%
  • Total voters
    36
ShastaoftheNineRealms said:
I do not care. I think you need to separate the artist from the art. It does not permeate through in the content itself, so that is about all we need.

As far as this podcast, it sounds exactly like the type of thing I love to do. I love dissecting the content I am interested in, but I have not finished Sorcerer's Stone yet.
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So the podcast does one episode per chapter, per week; I bet you could catch up to them in their reboot pretty easily and then read along with them. They look at each chapter through a different theme word, and they do sacred practices like lectio divina with a sentence from the chapter ... it's quite good.

www.harrypottersacredtext.com

Harry Potter and the Sacred Text

Reading fiction doesn’t help us escape the world. It helps us live in it.
www.harrypottersacredtext.com www.harrypottersacredtext.com
 
They certainly do have some interesting positions. I do plan on checking them out and, once I do catch up to them, I should be able to actually finish the books in a reasonable amount of time. Sort of like homework.
 
RIP Robbie Coltrane.

The beloved actor who played Hagrid has passed away. He had been ill for the past two years, but I haven't seen what he died from.

MrBob
 
inkspot said:
I can't remember where I read about the possibility of the TV show, either; I don't know how everyone here feels about JKR's stance against trans rights, but I know in her fandom in general it left a bad taste in many folks' mouth, and they're against doing anything that enriches her, even though they continue to love the Potterverse in general. That is kind of how I feel, as well.
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Whenever I think of JK Rowling, I think of this quote from Rudyard Kipling's poem:

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you
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I think Rowling is an incredibly brave woman and that history will vindicate her.
 
My dog is very important to me, but I can't take her to the grocery store. My skill with a firearm is good enough to qualify me, but I don't pack heat to an elementary school. There is a place for things...even the most important things...but there is also a place NOT for things...even the most important things. TDL is NOT the place to discuss human sexuality or how people regard it, regulate it, protect it, threaten it, or talk about it. At all. Frankly, I come to places like THIS to get away from the ever-present stuff like THAT and I'm willing to make a judgment call and say that even indirect reference to gender theory and protected classes violates our rules. It ends here. Now. Thanks.
 
We lost Dame Maggie Smith at the age of 89, just three months shy of her 90th birthday. While many in the acting field have reacted with sadness to her passing, I liked Rupert Grint's reaction that he will always remember having the dance scene with her in "Goblet of Fire." Adds a bit of heartbreak to that scene, especially when hearing Harry ask the twins if they'll ever let him live that down.
 
They have released previews for the new Netflix Harry Potter series as well as behind the scenes previews (they can be found on Youtube). What does everyone think? I don't have Netflix so I won't be able to watch the series proper.
 
MrBob said:
They have released previews for the new Netflix Harry Potter series as well as behind the scenes previews (they can be found on Youtube). What does everyone think? I don't have Netflix so I won't be able to watch the series proper.
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It is not Netflix it is HBO.

Casting looks ok, though retelling a story in a new way as seems to be the common language used for when they want to bastardize something people love. Casting I think looks ok except for Snape.. That is the biggest screw up they could make and while it might seem simple on the surface it literally changes so many things about so many characters in today's world. How would you feel about a bunch of white kids making fun and bullying the only black kid in school? That was Harry Potters dad. Harry Potter himself is accusing Snape of all sorts of things as the black teacher. I don't get why they feel they need to do this, especially in this case when the character is very well described. It also looks dark, not like evil dark just dark lighting which is something HBO does apparently. I am sure overall production is going to be great, but I think this will be another dud just not on the same level as Rings of Power. Time will tell, I hope to be proven wrong, though I don't see how I can be at least on the Snape side of things.
 
wonderings said:
It is not Netflix it is HBO.
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I realized it was on HBO a bit after I wrote this. I think I got confused with the Narnia series. I also don't get HBO so I won't be able to watch it. I am interested that they got John Lithgow considering in the movie series, Rowling was insistent that only actors from the UK played the roles for those characters also from the UK.
 
MrBob said:
I realized it was on HBO a bit after I wrote this. I think I got confused with the Narnia series. I also don't get HBO so I won't be able to watch it. I am interested that they got John Lithgow considering in the movie series, Rowling was insistent that only actors from the UK played the roles for those characters also from the UK.
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I wish American media would stay out of British productions. Look at British TV and American TV, night and day different and personally I think the British know how to tell better tales and when to end them. The way the UK is going though there soon won't really be a British culture so this will all eventually be mute.
 
wonderings said:
I wish American media would stay out of British productions.
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Rowling was the one who chose HBO to do the television version of her series as well as having a say in who gets cast. While I can't say anything about British productions and tell better tales, I do say one issue with American TV and movies does have to do with not knowing how or when to end them.
 
Yeah, I have that same feeling about the bloated (oh, I meant EXPANDED) Star Wars universe. And don't get me started about the direct to video Disney Sequel craze. I think it stems from two things... (1) the existential lack of belief in CATHARSIS, i.e. "Happily Ever After" in which an evil is defeated decisively, and (2) a dependence on EXTRAPOLATION, i.e. the mistrust of radically new ideas that aren't based on other ideas with a successful track record.

Frankly, you lose some of the mystery of Harry Potter when you feel like you're hanging out with him rather than catching a glimpse of something mystical and wonderful. My mother would have put it succinctly: "Familiarity breeds contempt."
 
Now that I think about it, Rowling did the same thing with the Harry Potter world when she wrote "The Cursed Child". She couldn't accept the Harry Potter story was over so she continued it to much controversy for her fans.
 
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