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Food for thought
Mar. 15th, 2007 01:55 pmVia The Leaky Cauldron-
David Yates, director of the upcoming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix gave an interview to geekmonthly.com about the new movie, including the political bent.
It iss certainly hardly intentional on the part of the moviemakers, since this movie just fulfills the next chapter in a serial- meaning, its not as if they went "ooh, a book with an cool political allegory, this is the perfect time to make it into a movie!". But it should be noted that the book itself was published in 2003, well into the era of "the war on terror", and a reawakening of governments exhorting their citizens to turn each other in. Faithful readers of the Harry Potter series can be in no doubt that the author herself was indeed offering a thinly veiled parallel of current events.
David Yates, director of the upcoming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix gave an interview to geekmonthly.com about the new movie, including the political bent.
"An interesting idea in the story is how fear can sometimes make people do terrible things to their own community and society. We’re not trying to parallel anything, we’re just trying to look at what fear does to people and how it sometimes affects people of authority with the responsibility of leadership."
It iss certainly hardly intentional on the part of the moviemakers, since this movie just fulfills the next chapter in a serial- meaning, its not as if they went "ooh, a book with an cool political allegory, this is the perfect time to make it into a movie!". But it should be noted that the book itself was published in 2003, well into the era of "the war on terror", and a reawakening of governments exhorting their citizens to turn each other in. Faithful readers of the Harry Potter series can be in no doubt that the author herself was indeed offering a thinly veiled parallel of current events.