Happy Halloween everybody! In the spirit of today’s holiday, I have decided to feature pumpkin carvings that I have found to be quite impressive. I hope everyone enjoys their festivities!
Monthly Archives: November 2012
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Catching Up… with Harry Potter
Yes, it’s true. I’m one of the few people who managed to stay away from the Harry Potter mania that swept through the U.S. (and other parts of the world, I’m sure) a few years back. I didn’t read the books. I didn’t see the movies. I didn’t buy any of the abundant merchandise. Yet in my pursuit of discovering what makes some books sell in the millions while others sell only a handful copies, I realized I was doing myself a huge disservice by not reading the books our nation embraced and turned into a phenomenon.
With that in mind, I decided it’s about time I read some of the wildly popular books I haven’t picked up (although Fifty Shades of Grey is one I will never read). I decided to start with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Honestly, I expected to be bored out of my…
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011) Review.
J.K.Rowling all the way to China
#470 – The Order of the Phoenix – Chapters 32-38
Once I got to the last few chapters of The Order of the Phoenix I couldn’t put the book down. J.K. Rowling has the amazing ability to slowly build her story and then ramp up the excitement and tension. The fight between Harry and his friends and the Death Eaters captivated me, so much so that I could hardly wait to turn to the next page.
Below are some thoughts from the final seven chapters of The Order of the Phoenix.
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Harry Potter and the Closet of Horrors
Today I need to do important real life things so here is a very old fan fiction. Now I’m probably going back to twitter when I should be reparo-ing my life.
It was Harry Potter’s 7th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and he was once again lurking in the girl’s toilets. This was not just because he and his good friend Ron Weasely were perverts; as well as checking out Hermione and Moaning Myrtle they were concocting a Polyjuice potion (does this plotline seem oddly familiar?).
Considering Voldemort’s breathtaking return to power you might have thought they would have found a more useful way of spending their time. The answer to this is that in their own twisted reality they could not make a plan without somehow involving Polyjuice potion, or keep their noses out of things that were clearly none of their business. The purpose of…
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The Hunger Games: A Sociopolitical Analysis, and Rhetoric on the Necessity of Hollywood
Director Gary Ross’ first attempt in the segmented adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games has been produced with more than enough resource to draw from. Not only is Collins’ book trilogy politically relevant at the time the film’s release, but the Hunger Games brand has garnered a worldwide fanbase of young enthusiasts, eager for more.
Now, backed by a $78,000,000 budget, a team of the best CGI professionals money can buy has been assembled to turn the tween reading sensation of the year into a major box office hit. Pulling in $152,535,747 (USA) from over 4137 screens around the world in just the opening weekend alone, this phenomenon of mainstream industry has even drawn competitive comparisons to its written-series-to-screen predecessors: Harry Potter (Rowling) and Twilight (Meyer).
However, one element setting The Hunger Games apart is the political and social rhetoric of its source material. Collins’ novels, in their three volume…
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Not a Flaw: Nagini
There’s a quote you may have heard:
“Yes, it’s rather funny, really, that next to no-one realised the snake that Harry set free in Philosopher’s Stone turned out to be Voldemort’s final Horcrux, Nagini.”
— J.K. Rowling
Yeah, you may also have heard that it isn’t remotely true. The snake from the first book is a Brazilian boa constricter which is non-venomous whereas Nagini is poisonous (She bites Arthur) and Voldemort probably found her in the forests in Albania where he was hiding. In the films the boa constricter is given a male voice but Nagini is female. The boa constricter is also described as having ‘glistening brown coils’ whereas Nagini is green.
So yes, NOT TRUE, IT ‘S A FAKE QUOTE.
Sorry, I just saw someone repeating the supposed ‘fact’ again hence all the caps and bold type.
Great Film Villains Part Four: Voldemort
Harry Potter Series, 2001-2011 A snake in human form, Voldemort is one of the most recognisable and terrifying villains the literary and cinematic world has ever seen. His story, or rather that of Tom Marvolo Riddle, is fleshed out across the seven books/eight films exceptionally well, so by the end we feel that we know him almost a well as Harry himself. Brilliantly portrayed by Ralph Fiennes, Voldemort has become a childhood staple for my generation and, most likely, generations to come. Despite a hilarious puppet depiction, Voldemort remains a sinister, unpredictable figure, not aided by the fact that he has no nose.
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