merlin, check this out!
more quotes! have found all these interviews with jkr. fun game to go through them all.
this quote should make merlin (from muggle matters) feel very chuffed.
taken from
"JK Rowling talks about Book Four," cBBC Newsround, July 2000
this quote should make merlin (from muggle matters) feel very chuffed.
taken from
"JK Rowling talks about Book Four," cBBC Newsround, July 2000
And how vital is book four in the whole seven book series to Harry?JKR: Crucial. The fourth is a very, very important book. Well you know because you read it, something incredibly important happens in book four and also it's literally a central book, it's almost the heart of the series, and it's pivotal. It's very difficult to talk about and I can't wait for the day someone's read all seven and I can talk completely freely about it. But it's a very, very important book.
posted by jkr2 | 12:51 am
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ahhhhhhhh ... vindication :)
of course, it has my brain completely whirring as to what the "something incredibly important" is, or how many of them there are. Obviously Voldy's return to bodily form, his re-incarnation, as it were, is the first major one. But I am wondering if the dementor's kiss with Barty Jr., as the only place in the series we have actually had a DK performed, is a secondary one that relates to what you might call the "underpinnings" of the series, the more latent and subtle but pervasive underlying themes, ie the central question that Harry disagrees with Snape on concerning DADA, how you respond to dementors, the incarnations of depression and despair, basically coming from a fear of death that produces a "flight from death."
The other things it makes me very excited (and even more impatient than I already was for book 7 lol) ... is getting to learn. I think when she says "and I can talk completely freely about it" is the specific background images and motifs and themes from classical literature that she draws on (and that, if she were to discuss them now might give away too much of what is coming in book 7 for observant and knowledgable sleuths like Travis and Granger). I have my material that I study as far as Biblical imagery, both Old and New Testament, and medieval theology and philosophy etc (and let us not forget Dylan and U2 :) ), but the path by which they came into her works would be medieval lit instantiations of them, which I have not had the opportunity to study as in depth as I would like (although I have loved what of it I have gotten to study) and I'm dying to read all about the different literary sources she has drawn on to create her story (I loved that one piece Pauli linked to about the Scandanavian Horcrux source).
Very exciting ... and good sleuthing :)
(much to write about in the coming years :) currently I am going tomorrow night with mine and Pauli's friend Nathan and his 13 yr old son Josh for their first ad my 3rd viewing of Dead Man's Chest, my first viewing having been with Pauli. More jumbled than the first, definitely a trilogy "middle-movie" but amazing stuff. and funny motival coincidences in the "plot" of life ... I have been working on this editing gig of this encyclopedia of orthodox Catholic social sciences, and one of the themes that gets discussed in that field is globalization, the global economy etc - so I was just telling Nathan last night that by the time the 3rd Pirates movie comes out I should be in a better place as far as having avenues in which to publish such essays and have all 3 Pirates movies to work on as a trilogy, commenting on it partially from this realm of social thought that I have been involved in this summer, coincidentally the summer that Dead man's chest came out, which I think gives the strongest clue thus far to the trilogy being an examination the tension between the classical mythopoic mind and the scientific mind of the global economy [ie the East India Trading Co seeking to control the sea] and with movie 3 promising a journey to "the wierd" of "world's end" and Chow Yin Fat as an Asian Pirate ... when I had originally hear about Jones in 2 and Fat in 3 I had thought of it more episodically [1 = mythopoic/love as treasure; 2 = conquering fear of death 3 = globalization] , but having seen #2 I think they will all fit together much more as a whole than that
What with book 7 of Potter and Pirates 3 [not to mention Spiderman 3 next summer, with what looks like a very interesting development of the Venom character] ... a very exciting few years to be alive and writing in the field of popular literature and film)
Ok, so I might not know anything about Harry Potter (should I read them do you think?? ha ha silly question right?!), but Pirates I am very excited about. Looove the first one and am going tonight to see Dead Man's Chest.
Anyway Merlin (Hi, by the way, I'm a friend of Jo's), I for one would be very interested in your thoughts on the Pirates trilogy. I couldn't find any posts about it on your blog though so maybe you'll have to hijack Jo's for a bit. ;-)
(how rude am I, practically demanding that you write about it! I'm just awfully terribly excited about Pirates and other people usually laugh at me for that. *giggle* )
yeah, merlin. can anyone say "CHIASM"? hurrah for you!
by the way
merlin... sumara
sumara.... merlin
ok. introductions over.
please hijack away. at least some action will be goin on here!
i haven't seen the pirates movies at all. strange seeing as johhn depp is in fact on the screen! (have you seen 'who's eating gilbert grape'? )
maybe one day i will. i've seen e films at the cinema this year. potter 4 (that was christmas actually, so does it count?) pride and predudice and narnia.
luckily they were all worth it. (i say that about gof with disclaimers)
so, anyway, *waves hand about* continue.....
btw that's *3* films not *e* films.
Gilbert Grape -- yes! One of my favorite films. I also liked "Benny & Joon" okay, but it felt like half the character development was taking place during "rock videos". Has that artsy feel, though, that I have to admit I'm into.
Here's one of Merlin's posts on Pirates.
Little hint: you can always go to google.com and type in text like pirates site:mugglematters.com to find stuff. Great trick to search just one domain for a word or phrase, but many don't know about it. Click on the link above; this search returned about 19 hits.
cool tip, pauli! thanks mate.
jo
Ok I finally saw Dead Man's Chest last night and ever since I've been euphoric!
Jo, you have to see them! Hire the first one and then go see the 2nd. And that's an order. :-)
You guys are fascinating, and it's so exciting reading what you say about the symbolism and philosophies.... I love many of the same films you talk about but I look at them from a very different point of view... as an actor I'm looking at the subtleties of character and the personality clues and connections, exploring the hows and whys of the way a character affects an audience. And the way an actor grows a character throughout the story... the slow revelation of different aspects of a character thrills me.
But now all this symbolism talk thrills me too, what a whole new world of meaning to notice! Which is strange for me, because I happen to really value entertainment just for the sake of entertainment. But there you go. I can value it for all sorts of reasons.
Anyway I'll be having a big rave on my own blog about Dead Man's Chest (mainly about how it makes me feel as an actor).
I've only recently discovered the brilliance that is Johnny Depp ( I was never interested because my mum always went on about him, so I thought he couldn't be someone cool!), but I plan to track down all the older movies. Benny and Joon looks great, and I've heard a lot about Gilbert Grape.
Ok that'll do, Sumara.
yes, i will have to give 'benny and joon' a go.
and, sumara. i'm a bit of a chicken. are you sure potc isn't too scccaaaarrryyy for me????
oh, and you simply must watch gilbert grape, to also see leonardo de caprio actually acting.
Um, well, on Sat night the lady sitting in front of me literally jumped out of her seat screaming several times. :-) But really, she was very over-the-top, there was nothing else but a few shocked gasps in the cinema. There are scary parts but it's more sudden shocks and melodramatic fright rather than anything you'd have nightmares about.
Leo diCaprio acting??? Who'd have thought it?!
yeh, sumara. he really does.
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