Back to the age limits...Was: re: Streaking Draco?

Pernille bolle17 at frisurf.no
Thu Jul 22 23:33:32 UTC 2004


--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, artsylynda at a... wrote:

> I think, given the tone of books 4 and beyond, WB is going to have  
> to go for a PG-13 to R rating to capture the story.  These "older" 
> books  aren't meant for little kids.  JKR is writing for herself,  
> so she's  said.  That's one of the reasons the books have such wide 
> appeal, because  she's not writing them like books for kids -- they 
> have depth and layers of  meaning and big, long, hard words (and   
> concepts and experiences!) that are  beyond anything MY kids were  
> exposed to, and both of them have wonderfully  complex vocabularies 
> (they're both in their 20's now).Maybe those with  little kids can 
> watch the "edited for TV" versions of the later movies.  If  the   
> movies want to draw a seriously "deep" (broad age range, good      
> INCOME $$$$$)  audience, they will gear the movies toward the teen 
> and young adult audience,  especially since Dan and Emma have      
> already (at the young age of 14) reached  "heart throb" status      
>(according to the media).WB would be stupid to  pass up such an     
> economic opportunity, and they'd be being true to the books as     
> well, to gear films 4-7 to teens and adults.  That's the target    
> audience of  those books.  I know adults who read the HP books to   
> their little kids who  have to skip sections they consider too     
> intense or whatever for their  kids.  That's wise of them, in their 
> situation. I hope WB doesn't do  the same thing.  Bring on the     
> mature HP movies in all their  intensity!!!!  Bring those books to 
> filmic life!  YEAH!

> Lynda
> 
> ". . .the cat's among the pixies now. . ." Mrs.  Figg, OoP

In my opinion if you don't think your child is old enough to hear the 
scary or inappropriate things that's in these books why can't you 
wait until you feel that they ARE ready? If the parent is 
enthusiastic about Harry Potter, don't rush to make your kids feel 
the same, and as you said these books are really not for kids as they 
progress. 
If I were a parent I would give my child SS/PS when he/she was 
eleven, then CoS when he/she was twelve and so on. If they really 
became interested I would let them buy the rest of the books 
themselves or I would buy them for them. But I don't think the series 
is appropriate for kids under ten - eleven.

The same about the movies, if you don't think the movies, or parts of 
the movies is appropriate for your child, why do they have to see it 
now? Why can't you wait until they are old enough in your opinion?

I am speaking from experience. Both my father and me are "movie-mad" 
and often discuss them. When I was younger, my father used to 
say: "You have to see this when you get older", after he had seen a 
good movie, but did not think it was appropriate for me at the time.
I was of course mad at him for not letting me, but I have seen most 
of these movies since and agreed with him that they were not 
appropriate for me at that time.   


And at the end of this post I wish to ask people to change the post 
subjects if you are indeed changing the main subject in your 
answering post, (like I have done with this one). It makes it easier 
to tell what you are talking about and people can choose if they want 
to read it or not.

My post are becoming longer and longer :)
Pernille


 





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