Undeathly Hallows ? (was Re: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas/Pyjamas)

[Alison]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
> Carol :
><snip>
> As a former English teacher with a PhD in literature and
> consequently a lit/crit perspective that may not match Heyman's
> perspective as a film producer, I would say that Hallows and Horcruxes
> are not themes but motifs (recurring elements in a work of art that
> may or may not have thematic significance).

<snip>

> A theme, OTOH, is a concept, often a controlling idea around which the
> writer structures the work or an insight that he or she is consciously
> trying to convey. 

<snip>

Alison :

I am going to have to bow to your experience here in defining theme vs 
motif, since it is definitely not and never was my forte. But yes, 
possibly Heyman might be thinking in different terms. 

Earlier you asked just what a film producer does. Again, I'm no expert, 
but I've always thought he's much like an overall project manager. That 
is, goes out and gets the funding and then manages all other aspects of 
the film in total, such as hiring, contracts, budgets, locations. But 
it's probably more than that as well, in that he's the overall boss 
man. He still has to answer to the movie company, ie WB executives. So 
more like a specialised businessman. 

I guess from that assumption I then leap to a further speculation that 
he might have a different concept of what the 'themes' are.