It’s that simple. When a Scottish single mother was bored with nothing to do with her life, she began to write aimlessly on a small piece of paper in a cafe. Her writing was nothing more than childish childish fantasies, wild but uninspiring magic. The bridge segment is neither epic nor giant, and the protagonist is just a group of virgin boys and girls who do not have the potential to become a classic. Of course, it is too early to say "classic", but anyway, this single parent The teenager with glasses described by his mother has become a classic image in the palace of human literature (children’s literature). Today, when we talk about Harry Potter, he is no longer a vain literary symbol, but like Jia Baoyu and Monkey King. Like Sherlock Holmes, everyone has never seen it before, but everyone has a standard image in their hearts.
Obviously, this standard image is also attributed to Warner's re-creation. Aunt Rowling, who doesn't like over-development, rejected the commercial offer of the Coke giant, but she couldn't refuse the temptation from the film. Today, the film has almost become public. The king of cultural forms, when Rowling’s characters really come alive on the screen—and IMAX3D-like come alive, maybe she can really feel that she is creating a cultural icon of an era.
The novel is over long ago, but the story of the lost suspense still attracts countless fans to join in. This four-year-delayed video feast may be a bit superfluous for die-hard book fans, but the film still has its unique charm. All over the world, the final episode of "Harry Potter"—in fact, the last half—continuously creates new records for commercial movies. There is nothing to say. In business, the winner is king, and the experience After the dismal reputation of "Half-Blood Prince" and "Deathly Hallows (Part 1)", Yates won back enough dignity for himself, Warner, and more for the movie.
"Harry Potter" has become a kind of "phenomenon". For "phenomenon" film works, any kind of single point of view comment will be dull. There are so many meanings that we can find in movies. About youth, about growth, about emotions, about trust, about racism, about totalitarian politics, almost all of them can be easily searched for the basis of interpretation in the film, and some even wrote I wrote a book called "Harry Potter and International Relations", and the significance of these comments is probably not the original intention of Aunt Rowling. From a purely commercial point of view, the success of "Harry Potter" is of course the success of the script first. In the deletion and modification of the novel to the movie script, the suspense setting is kept perfectly, and each episode has a centralized point. Suspense, after the sub-suspension is resolved, it will immediately be combined with the total suspense of the final decisive battle, and will never let the audience's hanging heart fall. This obviously becomes the core secret that can keep the audience's attention for ten years without shifting. ; And the time and space settings (including the time travel back in time) intertwined between magic and the real world have become an excellent martial arts venue for presenting audio-visual wonders. With the new wind set off by "Avatar", "Harry Potter" is just right in time; in addition, The unique temperament of magic movies in Western culture has also become the only way for "Harry Potter" to be unique in the world. Generally speaking, in the context of Christianity, movies that use these "heretical" magic to talk about things can only be included. In the sequence of the cult B-level film, Warner successfully maintained the mainstream status of "Harry Potter". Potter never went to church to pray and never sought the protection of God, but added a coat of children's film. , Many sensitive belief issues have been eliminated; for non-Western audiences, magic has become the master key to satisfy curiosity. Movies are originally a tool for dreaming. With the help of magic, the most basic view Shadow psychology can be satisfied to the utmost extent.
Throughout the world’s film history, series of movies like "Harry Potter" are very rare. Even Truffau’s "Antoine Five Steps" was not planned at the beginning, and "Ha "Li Ba Bu" is completely implemented in accordance with a unified shooting plan. Its large number of episodes, large investment, wide influence, and strong continuity are rare in film history, and it has become a unique "movie series" landscape. (The endless series of short films in the early film history are not the same). The combination of the actors and the characters in the film has also made a good story in the world film industry (this undoubtedly makes Dumbledore's change of roles more tragic).
To say a thousand words and ten thousand, in fact, the ten years that no movie has accompanied us are more meaningful. In these ten years, Harry Potter and his friends, teachers, and enemies have grown up together, and readers and viewers of "Harry Potter" are also in the process of entering school, graduation, employment, unemployment, marriage, and divorce. Composing his own life, suddenly looking back, the most vigorous ten years of his life have quietly passed away-in hope and disappointment, in true love and hatred, vanished.
Magic is just a cloud, and only the real growth memory is our most precious thing. This summer, Harry Potter is about to leave us, which means that the youth of a generation is over.
(Published in the C2 page of the Beijing News on August 4, 2011)
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