A MANUFACTURED CURSE
I read this and could not believe it was being reported as news. Actually I believe it all too well. It's an example of manufacturing something to try and hype something else.
In this case, Harry Potter.
Supposedly, actors and people who work on the films thing the films are CURSED.
Below is the article in question, With my commentary added [In red text in brackets]...
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Actors who have worked on the Harry Potter movies believe the films are cursed after a series of tragic deaths and mishaps over the years. [Uh oh... sounds like one of the UNFORGIVEABLE curses]
In the latest incident on Wednesday this week, Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double was left badly hurt after a freak accident on set at Leavesden Studios in Watford. [While tragic, one stuntman being injured in the course of 7 (was in connection to 'Deathly Hollows') movies is hardly an unusual event, especially when you consider that stuntmen are used in things that are dangerous... it's why they are called STUNTmen.]
Rob Knox who played the role of Marcus Belby in the yet-to-be-released Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince died after being stabbed in Sidcup in May last year. [At a nightclub after getting involved in a fight between his brother and a drunk club patron. Again tragic, but if you read the news, not too remarkable. Again, factor in how many actors have been part of the Harry Potter series over 6 films and how many were NOT killed in nightclubs. It's not as if he was at the club BECAUSE of his Harry Potter role.]
During filming of the sixth Harry Potter film The Half-Blood Prince shooting had to be axed after the set was battered by storms and then streakers and special-effects mistakes halted filming in Farnham, Surrey. [OMG! Rain and jackasses in England! And special effects that were not perfect the first time...undeniably the work of dark eldrich powers...]
Film bosses brought in ex-SAS body-guards to protect Daniel Radcliffe in March last year after he received a death threat from a stalker.
[An actor with a stalker? That NEVER happens! I mean if a putz like Pauly Shore can have stalkers, certainly Daniel Radcliffe can.]
Dumbledore actor Richard Harris died in October 2002 after losing his battle against cancer. The 72-year-old appeared in the two Harry Potter movies, The Philopsers’ Stone and the Chamber of Secrets. [My favorite... A 72 year old man with cancer dies in the course of shooting 8 films over 9 years... Again, while the loss of Richard Harris is tragic and a blow to the acting community as a whole, do you expect me to believe that he would be alive now if only he had not been in Harry Potter? For the record, he would have been over 80 by the time both Deathly Hollows movies were released. Also, he worked on TWO other movies after Potter. Maybe one of THEM was the cursed movie!]
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Just something I wanted to point out!
Am I outraged? No.
Will I boycott the HP movies? No.
It just annoys my sense of decent publicity mongering... as a trained adman, I know I could do better, and manufacture BETTER hype than this lame, hamhanded attempt... Half baked effort like this is why England lost the Revolution!
--R
In this case, Harry Potter.
Supposedly, actors and people who work on the films thing the films are CURSED.
Below is the article in question, With my commentary added [In red text in brackets]...
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Actors who have worked on the Harry Potter movies believe the films are cursed after a series of tragic deaths and mishaps over the years. [Uh oh... sounds like one of the UNFORGIVEABLE curses]
In the latest incident on Wednesday this week, Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double was left badly hurt after a freak accident on set at Leavesden Studios in Watford. [While tragic, one stuntman being injured in the course of 7 (was in connection to 'Deathly Hollows') movies is hardly an unusual event, especially when you consider that stuntmen are used in things that are dangerous... it's why they are called STUNTmen.]
Rob Knox who played the role of Marcus Belby in the yet-to-be-released Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince died after being stabbed in Sidcup in May last year. [At a nightclub after getting involved in a fight between his brother and a drunk club patron. Again tragic, but if you read the news, not too remarkable. Again, factor in how many actors have been part of the Harry Potter series over 6 films and how many were NOT killed in nightclubs. It's not as if he was at the club BECAUSE of his Harry Potter role.]
During filming of the sixth Harry Potter film The Half-Blood Prince shooting had to be axed after the set was battered by storms and then streakers and special-effects mistakes halted filming in Farnham, Surrey. [OMG! Rain and jackasses in England! And special effects that were not perfect the first time...undeniably the work of dark eldrich powers...]
Film bosses brought in ex-SAS body-guards to protect Daniel Radcliffe in March last year after he received a death threat from a stalker.
[An actor with a stalker? That NEVER happens! I mean if a putz like Pauly Shore can have stalkers, certainly Daniel Radcliffe can.]
Dumbledore actor Richard Harris died in October 2002 after losing his battle against cancer. The 72-year-old appeared in the two Harry Potter movies, The Philopsers’ Stone and the Chamber of Secrets. [My favorite... A 72 year old man with cancer dies in the course of shooting 8 films over 9 years... Again, while the loss of Richard Harris is tragic and a blow to the acting community as a whole, do you expect me to believe that he would be alive now if only he had not been in Harry Potter? For the record, he would have been over 80 by the time both Deathly Hollows movies were released. Also, he worked on TWO other movies after Potter. Maybe one of THEM was the cursed movie!]
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Just something I wanted to point out!
Am I outraged? No.
Will I boycott the HP movies? No.
It just annoys my sense of decent publicity mongering... as a trained adman, I know I could do better, and manufacture BETTER hype than this lame, hamhanded attempt... Half baked effort like this is why England lost the Revolution!
--R