wish fulfillment, it's about a kid taken away from his boring shitty life and gets to go to magic school where he makes friends and goes on adventures with them.
>“Harry, did I ever tell you about my secret nephew Aurelius? He was an illegitimate half-muggle love child whom my family was ashamed of, so my mother (his grandmother) sailed to the United States with him as a baby, instead of his father or mother. When the ship started to sink (because it was the Titanic), an unrelated half-black daughter of a rapist mind control wizard switched him out with her half-brother (whose mother was consensual, and also white). The rapist wizard didn't care about the daughter, but he did love his son, and he was afraid that the daughter’s mother's son would be angry that his mother was mind control raped and kill the baby instead of the rapist, so he sent the son he loved across the sea (on the Titanic) to be raised in an orphanage by a muggle who hated magic instead of protecting him himself. Anyway, both babies just happened to be magic, so the daughter switched them so she could have a less annoying brother. My mother thought that her grandson was still on the Titanic, and felt so strongly about this secret shame child that she’d tried to abandon in America that she tried to swim down and rescue him and drowned instead of just using magic while the rape daughter watched and did nothing to inform her that her real son was already safe. She then gave my nephew to a French half-elf servant who served the mother, and after the mother was raped and died in childbirth, that meant she had to continue serving the rapist, who thought he was the real son, and delivered him to the orphanage. My nephew was then raised as a muggle who didn't know how to control his magic, destroyed half of New York, had sex with Voldemort's pet snake, got into goth fashion, killed Bambi, and joined a cult ruled by a gay wizard Nazi whom I sodomized. By the way, don’t ask why they used a muggle boat instead of apparating or flying across the ocean. They were all good friends, except the rapist mind control wizard” he said calmly.
That's true, but also the introduction of so many new characters retroactively, making them interact with the existing characters, and trying to mash all of these things into a cohesive story made it a trainwreck.
>Shall we just make a fun globe trotting magical adventure with a likable charming character and see different parts of the wizarding world? >Nah, we want a fricking prequel.
Shame shit happened with The Hobbit films focusing on setting up LOTR more than just being The Hobbit.
I saw this movie in the theater slightly buzzed. >Audible groans from me and other movie goers after the first 45 minutes, every few minutes. >walking out, what were the crimes though? >Which one was the crime >was it just the one crime?
I think it was also because it was a really easy read for a fantasy novel. I was lightly into fantasy as a child and I don't remember there being that many easily digestible titles around when HP came out.
Kids just love wizzads and shit
>What made Harry Potter so successful?
Okay: >New Labour came to power, 90s cool Britannia thing, from music to politics to culture in general, approaching the new millennia, times were changing. >Book captured British culture and eccentricity whilst also being incredibly accessible. >Bland liberal political values. >Basic wish fulfillment. >Became truly viral and became so many kids first proper book. >Movies captured that feeling. >JK Rowling did actually do a bunch of shit right, from the character names to the little things, she tapped into that changing cultural/political feeling.
It also came at the perfect moment with the dvd-boom and magical/fantasy right after the big lord of the rings on tv, I know the books already sold good but having the movies on the screen avalaibale so fast new one every year made that generation addicted to it right away.
>It was for kids, so they were more forgiving of cliches and plot holes >Straightforward tales of good vs evil, at least for the first few entries >Didn't use too many big words and stuff was constantly happening, so kids didn't get bored reading it >Appealed to everyone because it didn't shit on anyone for being male, female, White, rich, poor, etc. >"Magical boarding school" was a novel setting, so much so that basically every magic school in fiction is referred to as Hogwarts >Beautiful movies with good special effects
Long story short while America was worrying about the obvious in 2001, JK Rowling essentially did this for almost two decades with the film industry:
wish fulfillment, it's about a kid taken away from his boring shitty life and gets to go to magic school where he makes friends and goes on adventures with them.
>Prisoner of Azkaban
Why are Redditors so obsessed with this one? I haven’t seen these since I was a kid and I always hated this one.
because it's Burton-lite
That was the best book gay
Also, my theory is the forced reading bullshit in schools. AR system, dumbass Pizza Hut reading program thing etc
Imagine being a grown man and simping for a frickin harry potter book
It was the best one, simple as b***h
It is when Emma Watson became legal
You were too young to appreciate it. It's the most detailed and immersive, and shot beautifully.
>“Harry, did I ever tell you about my secret nephew Aurelius? He was an illegitimate half-muggle love child whom my family was ashamed of, so my mother (his grandmother) sailed to the United States with him as a baby, instead of his father or mother. When the ship started to sink (because it was the Titanic), an unrelated half-black daughter of a rapist mind control wizard switched him out with her half-brother (whose mother was consensual, and also white). The rapist wizard didn't care about the daughter, but he did love his son, and he was afraid that the daughter’s mother's son would be angry that his mother was mind control raped and kill the baby instead of the rapist, so he sent the son he loved across the sea (on the Titanic) to be raised in an orphanage by a muggle who hated magic instead of protecting him himself. Anyway, both babies just happened to be magic, so the daughter switched them so she could have a less annoying brother. My mother thought that her grandson was still on the Titanic, and felt so strongly about this secret shame child that she’d tried to abandon in America that she tried to swim down and rescue him and drowned instead of just using magic while the rape daughter watched and did nothing to inform her that her real son was already safe. She then gave my nephew to a French half-elf servant who served the mother, and after the mother was raped and died in childbirth, that meant she had to continue serving the rapist, who thought he was the real son, and delivered him to the orphanage. My nephew was then raised as a muggle who didn't know how to control his magic, destroyed half of New York, had sex with Voldemort's pet snake, got into goth fashion, killed Bambi, and joined a cult ruled by a gay wizard Nazi whom I sodomized. By the way, don’t ask why they used a muggle boat instead of apparating or flying across the ocean. They were all good friends, except the rapist mind control wizard” he said calmly.
I'm dying
Dude, the plot of these new movies is fricking insane. This post sums up the sheer insanity of it all
Harry Potter wasn't created to be a MCU-like franchise. The overextension made it ridiculous.
That's true, but also the introduction of so many new characters retroactively, making them interact with the existing characters, and trying to mash all of these things into a cohesive story made it a trainwreck.
>Shall we just make a fun globe trotting magical adventure with a likable charming character and see different parts of the wizarding world?
>Nah, we want a fricking prequel.
Shame shit happened with The Hobbit films focusing on setting up LOTR more than just being The Hobbit.
I saw this movie in the theater slightly buzzed.
>Audible groans from me and other movie goers after the first 45 minutes, every few minutes.
>walking out, what were the crimes though?
>Which one was the crime
>was it just the one crime?
What does Bill Cosby's life story have to do with HP, tho.
cause it's kino. duh!
Watch this. Explains quite a bit.
I think it was also because it was a really easy read for a fantasy novel. I was lightly into fantasy as a child and I don't remember there being that many easily digestible titles around when HP came out.
Kids just love wizzads and shit
>What made Harry Potter so successful?
Schools forcing children to read it as part of a libshit "ciriculum"
I didnt realize people read this in schools. Was this only in the UK?
Did your school really? Mine only let us read books that won a Newberry Medal.
Very cool setting and aesthetics, defined by absolutely incredible first two movies.
I think people were starved at the time for a family franchise.
>What made Harry Potter so successful?
Okay:
>New Labour came to power, 90s cool Britannia thing, from music to politics to culture in general, approaching the new millennia, times were changing.
>Book captured British culture and eccentricity whilst also being incredibly accessible.
>Bland liberal political values.
>Basic wish fulfillment.
>Became truly viral and became so many kids first proper book.
>Movies captured that feeling.
>JK Rowling did actually do a bunch of shit right, from the character names to the little things, she tapped into that changing cultural/political feeling.
It also came at the perfect moment with the dvd-boom and magical/fantasy right after the big lord of the rings on tv, I know the books already sold good but having the movies on the screen avalaibale so fast new one every year made that generation addicted to it right away.
>It was for kids, so they were more forgiving of cliches and plot holes
>Straightforward tales of good vs evil, at least for the first few entries
>Didn't use too many big words and stuff was constantly happening, so kids didn't get bored reading it
>Appealed to everyone because it didn't shit on anyone for being male, female, White, rich, poor, etc.
>"Magical boarding school" was a novel setting, so much so that basically every magic school in fiction is referred to as Hogwarts
>Beautiful movies with good special effects