(Created Jun. 04, 2004 at 11:33 PM)
ok, just came home from seeing "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban." I won't spoil it, don't worry. :)
You're all going to think I'm nuts, but the following comes from lots of queer theory and graduate student classes in which we analyze the underlying weirdness in children's literature and gothic literature.
Since Harry Potter is both, I was reading into everything in the movie A LOT.
The gothic is often about repressed bodies. Historically, if you look at something like Dracula or Frankenstein, you see monsters showing the characteristics that polite society can't have.. So... what's the deal with all the animagus stuff in this particular Harry Potter film/ book? Not only are the actors going through puberty (and their bodies are changing) but a few of the adults in the film are almost all animagus - able to change into animals. So, what is it that animals are "allowed" to do or be that proper adults (or wizards) aren't? Just a rhetoerical question. :)
OK, I also thought there was sexual tension in this film that I hadn't seen before. There were various lines and dialouge I thought could easily be interpreted sexually - even if just "for fun." Lots of the awkwardness between the main young characters was intentional, but ... not all of it. And then there was the homoerotic elements between young protegee and older man, but I'll just leave it at that until more people have seen the film. :)
But oh my god, the puberty fairy has hit the Harry Potter actors! They've all grown at least a foot, and I swear, all the boys sound like drag queens now. Our young Daniel Radcliffe has got perfectly peachy skin, but my word, he's growing. And so's the boy who plays Malfoy - cripes, that child is getting TALL.
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