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| Harry Potter leaves viewers spellbound | |
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The most anticipated movie of the year, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone has topped the charts in box-office visits after Thanksgiving weekend in its third week out to the public.
While primarily aimed at children, everyone can go into the theatre and enjoy the movie, either you've read the novel or you don't want to know the story ahead of time. Amazingly enough, the movie followed much of the novel's story line with minor adjustments due to writer Steven Klove's persistence to apply key chapter events and creating those scenes into big screen material. And you could leave the theatre with the same anticipation for the next movie as the bouncy seven-year-old who has read all four existing books.
Visually, he is the boy I conjured in my mind while reading all four novels, only lacking in the mysterious green eyes his mother had before him. His two best friends, first years Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) help Harry go through his eventful first year at school. Fellow first year Malfoy Draco (Tom Felton) claims the position as the "school celebrity's" enemy.
While watching the movie, it is obvious this story was meant to be make-believe. To have the special effects render to the point of realism would slaughter author J.K. Rowling's visions of the series - it is meant to be mysterious, magical, something out of this world that all could relate. The main characters, although young, go through magical experiences that none of us would ever be able to encounter, but project it in such a way that those experiences could be synonyms of adult life.
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| by Vanessa Arquillano | |
Just another Thanksgiving weekend, shopping sales, more shopping, and free time to watch the newest releases in the local theatre.
The position of Harry Potter caused one of the biggest turn-outs for any audition; the future famous "boy-who-lived" would be known throughout the whole movie industry as the one children would adore. Daniel Radcliffe, adorned with taped glasses and a lightning bolt scar, is the chosen one, having played the young David Copperfield in BBC television's production of David Copperfield.
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