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Re: New Stories from the New Testament
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:57:50 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith wrote:
> This is a little bit closer to what I have done, but still not quite right.
> I could imagine someone creating a Harry Potter movie which down-played the
> "nice boy" image of Harry Potter and emphasized those times at which Harry
> does things which are morally-questionable or just strange. For example
> (I've never read the book, but saw the movie), one might highlight the scene
> early in the movie in which Harry uses magic to trap his cousin in the snake
> pit at the zoo.
That's funny, that's what they did in the movie -- emphasized/distorted
events from the book that amplified Harry's questionable moral
character.
The zoo scene is actually one example of this -- in the book, Harry just
'disappears' the glass from the snake's cage. The glass doesn't come
back, and Dudley doesn't get trapped in the cage.
Steve
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 | | Re: New Stories from the New Testament
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| (...) I am the first to admit that I have selectively chosen which stories from the Bible, and in certain cases which parts of which stories to illustrate on The Brick Testament. But I do not agree that my editing of passages from the Bible is (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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