HP!

[rm]

I posted this awesome giddy audioblog post about the new HP movie, and it decided not to show up. Feh.

Anyway, the film is fantastic. Funny as hell, and scary. And really moving in a lot of places. Like the books (and unlike the first two films) it really works on two levels -- both the actual story and all the wink-wink nudge-nudge inuendo. Emotionally, it even works better in the book in places.

And for all you Remus fans (and I was always fond of him but never got what the fuss was about), David Thewlis is ridiculously charming in the role. Simply lovely. Now I get it.

And talk about hearing 10,000 keyboards clicking through the whole thing. You know that whole "werewolf is a metaphor for gay" theory, that I've always been like "hey, sure, that works, whatever, but that's fannon not cannon" about? Well, I take that back. Remus is gay gay gay gay gay gay. Gay! I'm sorry, but the music and the shoes alone. Trust me, when you see it, you'll know what the hell I'm talking about.

Also, all the kids are way too good looking. It's sort of bizarre. And Draco is such a girl!

Also, that page 394 business is the funniest shit ever.

Anyway, Curon is a genius. And Chris Columbus should be ashamed of himself for not having the faintest clue what to do with the first two films.

Finally -- the music is soooooo much better in this one.

Comments

[keever.livejournal.com]

Remus is gay gay gay gay gay gay. Gay!

Squeeeeee! Ahem. Sorry. Got carried away there. I Can't. Frickin'. Wait. To see this movie.

[00goddess.livejournal.com]

I never thought that "werewolf" was a metaphor for "gay", but I did think that the character seemed very gay. Like a sort of spinsterish gay man, the kind who wears loafers and slacks, and maybe sport jackets with worn patches on the elbows.

[rm.livejournal.com]

That's exactly how the character comes off, and very much the way Remus's little leaving discussion with Harry is delivered/directed.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I always thought it was a metaphor for AIDS/homosexuality, but I didn't think it was intentional until I saw this film. I love the Remus.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, so do I. I just want to hug him. And I do think it's absolutely intentional now, and god, i think it's just great, not in any prurient way, but just, books are important, and it's nice to see diversity and subtlety in the same place.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Indeed. And the music! That's a nice touch.

I was also quite fascinated by the scene where Snape leaps in front of the children to protect them from the werewolf. He really go quite a walloping.

And why did the whomping willow keep killing birds?!?!

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and it's weird because it makes sense in context of what we know from later books (Snape is a mean guy on the right right side who is sooo put upon), but not from what we know at this point int he story. but it is interesting.

And I loved the music, in general and particularly with Lupin. It's so sweet. God, I keep saying that, but it's just like, here's this dude with his fucked up little life but he has his records to cheer him.

As to the willow and the birds -- one supposes it was hungry. I got a perverse kick out of that.

[00goddess.livejournal.com]

I loved the way Snape did that. He did it without hesitation, and I thought "That's why he's a teacher."

[nisaa.livejournal.com]

I just saw it and loved it too. I thought about the gay theme with Remus while watching it because of your post, and, yeah, I definitely see it. I shouldn't say anymore for fear of spoiling it for others.

[00goddess.livejournal.com]

Ok, here's something you might find interesting.

I thought the book Lupin was rather gay, but the found the movie Lupin to not only be more gay, but differently so.

And really, the scenes where he was alone with Harry creeped me out. Not because I read the character as gay, but because he is so fucking attentive to Harry, and Harry isn't really a kid anymore, but is a young adult, and thus becoming a sexual being. It was creepy, and I felt like there was an undercurrent there that made me very, very uncomfortable. It really did feel like Lupin was trying to seduce Harry in the manner of those "boy-lover" type of molestors. When Lupin made the comment to the effect that the Ministry wouldn't allow "someone like me" to tech young children, my though twas "Of course not, you're a boy-loving perv."

So after seeing the movie (we saw it weeks ago but I'm just now getting around to coming back here and writing this) I don't just see Lupin as gay; I see him as a kindly chicken hawk. I see him as a guy who wants boys but never acts upon it and will never have happiness.

It freaks me out.