Now My Charms are All O’erthrown: Intial thoughts on Deathly Hallows Film and Leaky-Con (so far)
I really should be resting up for my Leak-Con Presentation in the morning, but, since I’ll be a little tied up with further wizarding excitement, and our Headmaster does TWO presentations tomorrow, I wanted to go ahead and toss out my initial reactions (not to be confused with a full-scale, completely analyzed review) as well as provide some thoughts on the terrific Leaky-Con Programing I enjoyed today. Follow me after the jump for some thoughts from a dark theater and a sunny day in Orlando. [Read more…]
Today’s the Day! (Well, technically, it’s Midnight tonight…)
Well, tonight is the big premiere! Our distinguished headmaster is off to the VIP viewing at Leaky-Con, folks are queuing up at the local cineplex, and the creative faithful are donning their robes and hats. We’ll have our thoughts up here, soon, of course, though John Granger and I will both be tied up at Leaky-Con for the next couple of days. We promise plenty of reports on our adventures! We are both speaking on Saturday, so we hope that anyone coming to the event will stop by to say hello! You can also pick up your signed copies of Harry Potter as Ring Cycle and Ring Composition and, hot off the presses, Harry Potter for Nerds (which includes some rip-roaring good articles from last year’s big blow-out, Inifinitus, and you can collect several of the contributors’ signatures all at one time!). Or, of course, you can always order those and other HogPro titles here! Okay, commercial over; now back to our regularly scheduled program of trying to draw a lightning bolt on one’s own forehead. Harder than it looks, that.
DH:2 Countdown Continues–Back to part 1
As we get geared up for part 2 of our final chapter to hit the big screen this week, it might be fun to see what we thought of the first half! Here are John Granger’s and Elizabeth Baird Hardy’s reviews of Deathly Hallows :1. Enjoy! And keep those comments and suggestions coming!
DH:II Countdown: More Literary Goodies from the Vaults
After our last post on the book versus movie debate, we had some great new comments on that topic, so I thought it might be fun to get some more literary conversation going with these two jewels that were down in the vault with the big blind dragon out front. In these two posts, our intrepid Headmaster analyzes the two fascinating epigraphs for The Deathly Hallows: one from William Penn’s More Fruits of Solitude and one from the Aeschylus play The Libation Bearers. If you haven’t noticed by now, our Ms. Rowling does very little without careful thought and deliberation (and determination, and destination!). Her epigraphs were selected with the utmost care, and their resonance through the text is powerful indeed. Enjoy these gems, as we ruminate on two bits of text that never had a chance of making it into either section of the Deathly Hallows movie (c’mon, you movie people, prove me wrong!). And keep those comments and suggestions coming as we head into the home stretch!
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