[HPFGU-Movie] Harry Potter ditches the glasses and all his clothes

[AnitaKH]

Valerie Flowe <valerie.flowe at verizon.net> wrote:                                  WOW! I'M ASTONISHED that Dan would do something like this. It does 
 sound quite controversial and a bit creepy (sex on a horse, blinding 
 horses with a spike?!) 

[wholesale pruning]

akh interjects:

I'm with Karen on this one.  It's an amazing play and delves deeply into the psyche of someone who is disturbed, yet possesses a conviction, a "rapture" if you will, that the psychiatrist envies.  

I've seen a production of the play with people I knew as the young man, the psychiatrist and the young man's female interest, and I loved it.  First of all, the "horses" are traditionally actors in suggestions of horse costumes. (Now that I think about it, I knew a few of the horses, too!)  Secondly, the "sex" is no more graphic than the scene in the diner in "When Harry Met Sally."  There is nudity, but it's brief and makes sense in the context of the play.  (That said, would I doff my clothes for a role?  Not if I value the audience's eyesight!)

Since it's a stage play on London's West End, the number of people who will see it is miniscule by movie standards.   I can fully understand a young actor seeing this as a really meaty role to stretch his emotional range.

akh, who's much more aggravated by the part of the article that says Radcliffe's continuance as Harry is "in question."  






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