Rewatch Reaction Post: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone

[author_by_night]

My family and I (re)watched Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone tonight. Here are some of my thoughts. All of them spoilery.

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[author_by_night]

Thanks! You should. It's a good adaptation.

[tediousandbrief]

This makes me want to rewatch it as well. I really enjoyed the first one, especially the Diagon Alley bit.

Hermione is totally insufferable early on.

I remember I saw this first when I was in college. I can into my professor from "The Movies" class* at the viewing (the school had cheap films that they showed for students every few weeks) and I talked about it with him. When I told him that they would probably be another 6 films since there were supposed to be 7 books he seemed despondent. haha!

* Yes, an actual English class called "The Movies."

[author_by_night]

Hermione changed a bit in the books - she went from being insufferable because Must Know Everything & Follow All Rules to being more humble, but occasionally having questionable tactics when fighting the good fight. I loved her character for it, of course, but she was at her brattiest in the first part of PS/SS.

Did your class review movies?

[tediousandbrief]

We watched films on one day a week in a session at night and then the other 2 or 3 days we talked about films, ways that films were made like the kinds of cuts used, use of color, use of flashbacks/forwards, etc.

I don't think we ever reviewed films. Most of the films we saw were at least 10 years old at that point. A few were foreign (The Grand Illusion, Breathless) some were documentaries (The Thin Blue Line), and some were silent (something by D.W. Griffith, maybe). The only "modern" film we watched was The Sixth Sense, which had JUST come out on DVD that year.

I liked the class. I remember I needed some extra credit so I did review Run Lola Run on my own, but that was it.

[shiiki]

Imagine Neville looking in the Mirror of Erised: Frank and Alice in their right minds, absolutely. Though it would lose something without sound. I think he imagines what his parents would be like, and he has this whole dream that they would love him and be proud of him as he is unlike the way Gran keeps setting crazy high standards that he feels he can never live up to ...

This now makes me want to cry. Poor Neville.

[author_by_night]

Aw. :( Yeah.

[davesmusictank]

Thanks for an awesome review. Makes me want to rewatch it as well.

[dimity_blue]

The one thing that hits me every time I see that movie: OMG, look at how young they are!

I love Hagrid. He's such fun.

I think book 1 Hermione would see herself with perfect passes in every exam in the Mirror of Erised.