Featured Friday Film: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) - Updated

From Decent Films:

Catholic Harry Potter haters made headlines recently when a hacker named “Gabriel” posted purported plot revelations from the completed but unreleased seventh and final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, along with a note crediting “the great Pope Benedict XVI” with exposing the “Neo Paganism faith” of J. K. Rowling’s cultural juggernaut. Read more >

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Update: The Sci Fi Catholic gives us his opinion of Harry Potter here. I like the breakdown of his rating system, which gives us a clearer picture of what we can expect.

My Comments: I am not a big Harry Potter fan, but apparently there is some value to watching this film.

Comments

  1. Thanks for this post Jean. I am torn on the whole HP issue.

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  2. Thanks for the post and link, Jean. I hope to discuss the whole series in more depth after I'm done with the seventh novel and have done some appropriate research and have the benefit of 20/20 hindsight. My own opinion is that Harry Potter so far is not unique fantasy, has essentially no elements that should disturb parents (other than the excessive kissing in book 6), and ought to be viewed as yet another basically wholesome, mythopoeic romp. Most of the criticisms of the books I've seen are based on a serious misunderstanding of fantasy in general: it's normal in the depiction of the fight against evil to set up an entertaining, possibly funny world, and then proceed to partially destroy it, yet when Rowling does it, she's accused of writing "dark" books. It's also normal to depict fictional magic, and it's also normal to draw the magic partially from existing mythology and occult lore (where else is the writer supposed to get it?). Contra her detractors, Rowling evinces no deep knowledge of esoteric subject matter in these books; most of her magic you could pick up simply by reading the classics, which is no doubt where she gets most of her information.

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