[HPFGU-Movie] Re: innuendoes?!

[clshannon at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/10/04 4:42:40 PM, gcrumpac at pacbell.net writes:


> Yes, I agree with this.  I don't think anyone means to
> suggest that Harry is *actually* doing something, um,
> untoward in that scene, but the metaphor is far too
> strong!  When I told my husband that the movie opens
> with Harry hiding under the covers experimenting with
> his wand, he laughed so hard.
> 

And David   Letterman recently quipped in his opening monologue:
"In the new Harry Potter movie, Harry is a teenager and gets into trouble for 
spending too much time with his wand." ;-))
As to the homage to Y Tu Mama Tambien, I believe someone said that just 
because the two boys and a girl were touching and comforting each other, it didn't 
mean it was like that movie. Well, a homage is not a replication of a scene 
from another movie; it's more like a tip of the hat done with suggestion and 
vaguely similar themes or design. That scene of the kids when Buckbeak is 
'executed' is just them being upset and sort of hugging one another for comfort - 
they are not engaging in foreplay and therefore not in the same subject matter as 
Y Tu Mama Tambien.
As for the origination of the statement that that scene is a homage to Y Tu 
Mama, it is in more than one review that I have read, including the one in 
Entertainment Weekly. 

As to the whole theme of innuendos and adolescence, even JKR acknowledges it 
in the books with Harry's crush on Cho, Ron and Hermione bickering, etc. It's 
a fact of life and even though the majority of the public and publishing 
industry thinks these are children's books, by the time Book 7 comes out, the 
characters will be 17 yrs. old and I doubt they are neutered before then <g> I 
don't know how realistic JKR intends to be, but if she ignores the whole issue, 
the books will definitely be fantasy. Besides, the themes are these books are 
extremely dark (a lot of children's literature is) and it would be hypocritical 
to include deaths, betrayal, loss, fear, vengeance, tyrannical evil despots 
who want to rule the world, etc...and then ignore the natural process of sexual 
attraction and burgeoning sexuality of the characters ;-)
She has poor Harry fight for his life from the age of 11 on - the least she 
could do is give him some action in the love department later on ;-)
Cindy


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