The first film in the franchise is re-released into a very different world – but it’s as entertaining and exhilarating as ever
The very first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is now re-released after 20 years, into a rather different world. Sadly, the actors who played the original Dumbledore, Snape, Uncle Vernon and Mr Ollivander – Richard Harris, Alan Rickman, Richard Griffiths and John Hurt – are no longer with us. The Harry Potter franchise itself is still a colossal commercial entity, an IP Shangri La, although its creator Jk Rowling is now at the centre of an acrimonious gender politics debate – undreamed of in 2001 – and the world of children’s and YA fiction, which she almost singlehandedly revived all over the world, is strongly policed on just these issues.
It’s amazing and poignant to remember the sheer excitement of that Hpatps premiere in November 2001: I myself...
The very first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is now re-released after 20 years, into a rather different world. Sadly, the actors who played the original Dumbledore, Snape, Uncle Vernon and Mr Ollivander – Richard Harris, Alan Rickman, Richard Griffiths and John Hurt – are no longer with us. The Harry Potter franchise itself is still a colossal commercial entity, an IP Shangri La, although its creator Jk Rowling is now at the centre of an acrimonious gender politics debate – undreamed of in 2001 – and the world of children’s and YA fiction, which she almost singlehandedly revived all over the world, is strongly policed on just these issues.
It’s amazing and poignant to remember the sheer excitement of that Hpatps premiere in November 2001: I myself...
- 10/28/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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