Titanic Reference

[sophiamcl]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, GulPlum <hp at p...> wrote:
> Only time for one short post tonight. I've been trying to catch up 
with 
 
> Personally, I loved it. I thought it was absolutely the right 
reaction 
> Harry should have, to indicate among various things his ease 
astride 
> Buckbeak and his trust in his steed.

Agreed! Besides, if it *was* a conscious reference to another movie 
that is also part of pop-culture, I see no harm in it. The reason we 
see the conection is because there was something about that Titanic-
moment that made it defining--though I can't say offhand about what--
about hopes, dreams, leaving the old behind, whatever. It has taken 
on a life of it's own, and has become a part of movie vocabulary, 
just like that shot of the glass of water Jurassic park. A wink and a 
nod to those who get it, and yet quite satisfying in its own context 
too. I liked it, reference or no. Perhaps rhe reason some of us balk 
at it is because it may reminds us that we're watching a movie within 
a movie-universe--the meta-reference could temporarily spoil the 
magic for us since it brings us back to the real world by announcing 
its ficionality, if you will. Anyway...

>It made me think back to when I first learned how to ride a bicycle 
(which I remember very well, despite it 
> having taken place 35 years and two days ago - ten points to the 
House of 
> whoever guesses how come I'm able to be so precise :-)) - one of 
the first 
> things I did as soon as I felt comfortable was to spread my arms 
wide and 
> speed down the street (which was on a slight incline). Until I 
crashed into 
> a tree, that is... :-)

Excellent example. My guess as to why you can date the moment so 
precisely is that you received it and learned to ride it on your 
birthday and had another birthday two days ago. I'm gryffindor!


(more on this in another, VERY long post I'm working 
> on, provisionally entitled "Niggles, Nuggets and Other 
Observations").

Ah. Looking forward to it.
> --
Sophia