Can you guys feel it? It is almost here, and thus it is almost over. The world of pop culture is buzzing madly as if struck by lightning.
Harry Potter time!
I am almost envious of the kids who grew up with the Harry Potter books and movies. I didn't read the first book until right before the first movie was released in the fall of 2001 (I was 27, and just graduated from acupuncture school). I devoured Sorcerer's Stone overnight and read as quickly as I could up to Goblet of Fire, when I had to wait with the rest of the world until Order of the Phoenix was published. (In the meantime, I started listening to the audiobooks. Jim Dale, you are my hero.) The last ten years of my life, Harry Potter has been a part of it.
It was wonderful and bittersweet to read Deathly Hallows, and now here it comes, the first part of the last movie. I am not seeing it until Saturday morning, so I am on complete media blackout until then. I don't want to read or hear any reviews, or opinions, or thoughts on the movie until I have some of my own. I don't want to see any more trailers, behind the scenes exclusives, or anything else that will ruin my experience of the movie. It won't be nearly anywhere as good as the book, and I will probably spend my time viewing the movie with the same commentary running through my head as it has done with every other movie in the franchise: "that's not how it goes in the book, why did they have to change it!" But I am committed to seeing it and hopefully finding it satisfactory.
In the meantime, EW.com has been running some fun look-backs at each of the previous movies. Plus, they linked to this very funny junket with the cast learning how to speak American (sorry about the damn ad):
Pretty funny, huh. That Tom Felton is unusually tan, and good at the improv! Go Tom!
Read EW's look back at:
The Sorcerer's Stone
Chamber of Secrets
Prisoner of Azkaban
Goblet of Fire
Order of the Phoenix
Half Blood Prince
And don't talk to me about the movie until it is Saturday evening, Pacific Standard Time. Thanks in advance!
who's the ECL?
- evil cake lady
- Portland, Oregon, United States
- I'm not BAD evil, more like devil's food cake evil.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
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ROTFLOL! They all did pretty well, much better than my husband who has lived in the US for 14 years! Rupert's fell apart with the "mozzarellar sticks", though. When Daniel speaks in his normal accent he sounds EXACTLY like my brother-in-law; it was uncanny!
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how similar our connection to Potter is. I didn't discover it until 1999, after Prisoner of Azkaban came out. I had been hearing about it and so asked my little cousins (who were 11 and 14 at the time) about it. The 11-year-old lent me his copies of the first two books and I was totally hooked. Went and bought the first three for myself, then waited impatiently for Goblet of Fire to come out. It came out as I was studying for the bar exam, and yet I still read it within about a week! I've worn completely through my cassette copies of the first 4 books read by Dale, and will have to start buying CD copies soon because many of the tapes don't work properly any more!
I'm looking forward to the movie but I have given up on any hope that I will be satisfied with any of them. It's not that I dislike them as movies, it's just that I've read the books and listened to Dale's readings so many times that the fact they don't match up is just distracting.
But there are lots of great elements in the last book that I'm looking forward to seeing on film -- like the wedding! My brother and SIL are coming down to watch it in IMAX with me, which will be fun. I hope you enjoy it!!
Forgot to mention, last week I just started reading The Sorcerer's Stone with the little guy! It has been really hard to wait so long, but I wanted him to be ready to hear about the sad parts.
ReplyDeleteThat learning American was hilarious, and I thought they did very well. But, we speak British English better, ha!
ReplyDeleteI´m so JEALOUS that you are getting to see the movie this week. I miss you!
The British are still trying to get me to learn proper English pronunciation.
ReplyDeleteI know nothing about the new HP movie so will not spoil anything for you.
Emma Watson went to the same school in Oxford as my daughter...but Louisa had finished when she started. So kind of but not really a connection.
That is all I have to say about that.
raiuchka, how super crazy awesome to be sharing HP with the kid! it will be fun to relive it all through him, don't you think? we should totally re-hash the movie after we both see it.
ReplyDeleteoh and mozerellar seemed to be everyone's downfall! why do they feel a need to stick an r at the end anyways?
j-dawg, i miss you too, homes! i wish we were seeing together :( haha, we speak british rather well.
melinda, that's still a cool connection! my mom has been here since the sixties, and her accent is still strong as ever. dad's too. some things just don't go away!
I loved that learning the freedom language video. they were great. twilight blows ha ha.
ReplyDeletei really enjoyed the movie.
Annmarie
am, that's all you have to say about it? i hope we talk about it more on the skype. i mean, it's not inception or anything but c'mon!
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