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In Reply to: I was so with you... posted by Harmonia on November 29, 2004 at 21:04:24:
Harmonia,I'm not against Harry Potter per se as I'm told the books have a much more balanced and deeper set of characters, but I really objected to the movies philosophically and aesthetically smug English know-alls children are just intolerable. In my former life I saw thousands and know just how the little phlegm bags can be!
The consumerism quality of them is that here are children who expect to command powers over materials objects and people by waving their arms and without any price- that is change and effect have no cost in the cosmic sense. This is a fantasy of power and material gain without work- an assumption of right to this kind of control. Non-magic folk or "muggles" aee assumed inferior and can never achieve these powers becuase they are not of "pure blood". The second movie with this pure blood theme has a kind of creepy junior fascism to it. The first movie had the famous alchemist Nicolas Flamel as a kind of backroom unseen character. But alchemists were appalled at the so-called black arts as they did not address the need for balance of energies. They would consider there would be an eventual price for this and it would not be pretty. The "Philospher's Stone:" was renamed the "Sorcerer's Stone" and this is a severe cheapening/deadening of a very elegant idea*** that children would probably find more interesting than the more or less literal eternal life idea.
***The "Philospher's Stone" is a metaphor for a long psychic process whereby the alchemist observes in miniature by an experiment called the "Magnum Opus" the evolution of the Universe. The resulting contemplations imply the nature of the mind of God no less. Eternal life was the result of bonding with the spirit of God- a side benefit to the knowledge of Creation.
I should read the books to get perspectives on the movies to really comment, but I already have this prejudice against this kind of idealized English children- really the movies show something from the 1930's public school world. I still feel the movies at least portray a middle class fantasy of gaining elite powers.
Cheers,
Bambi B
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