I think what people miss here is that this is Americanisation that is the norm in most US movies. While the original movies were distributed by Warner Brothers, the producers were largely British, so were many other important people in the making of that movie. So they apparently stayed their ground in staying closer to the British source material.
In the remake those safeguards are gone. People just realise it because they see the contrast to the original. But look at other US movies, so much of it has fantasy scenarios that are still very “USified”, to not confuse the US audience too much. This is the most obvious when Hollywood takes up a successful foreign movie and makes a complete US “remake”.
Iirc this is from regular breakfast in the trailer, not the huge start of the year feast
I think the most offensive detail is the tray. In the books the meals are teleported directly onto the tables so you can stay put with your plate and just get whatever you like. No need for a tray to carry your food to your seat at the table
“This year’s feast has been graciously provided by our sister school across the pond, the Gun Violence School of Magic! Their funding was cut again this year, so please be polite.”
Do the wizards also gas their bananas? The choice of fruit here implies that wizards are bound to the limitations of modern farming and container shipping. The common prevalence of bananas in the real world boils down to a pile of technical limitations on growing and importing fruit.
- Unlike most other common grocery store fruits they are tropical. Which means that they can be grown under normal conditions year round. It also means they need to be imported which would normally make them expensive
- Bannanas can be picked green, shipped refrigerated, and ripened under ethylene gas (tomatoes and apples might also be in this category). This enables bannanas to be transported by ordinary container ships rather than needing to be done by air. This also enables some amount of stockpiling. This cuts costs a lot such that bannanas can be cheaper than local produce unlike most other imported produce that needs to be flown in.
So, wisards shit in the corner of the room they’re in and then magically teleport their shit somewhere. The place they teleport it to is now full of potent wisard shit chemicals. That’s where they grow their banana trees.
Probably the same place the servants sleep.
This image makes me kind of wonder how crap a remake of the dinner meal scene from Hook would come out.
I has to check for myself that this is real. It is.
Isn’t one a feast and one a breakfast?
Yes, but do you remember the breakfast in the first movie?
No, but if it’s not the one in the meme that sort of defeats the point of the comparison.
Same as if you compared the breakfast in this meme to a scene where he’s just eating the banana.
It’s because it was offensive to Americans seeing children being fed at school
Not sure if joke or reality.
Or all the boomer brits who think maggie did nothing wrong.
When I was a kid in a southern US public school back in the 1980’s and 1990’s, I would have killed for a banana. I think peas were an option once.
You’ve probably seen what they feed kids in school.
There was an idea to make school lunches “healthier” to push weight loss by dumb politicians and the result was worse than the prison food served before. I’ll take the prison food any day over the “healthy” lunches I had when I worked in education, lunch duty so may as well eat something then since you get maybe 15 minutes to eat on lunch break, I would drink a pot of coffee a day lol.
I really felt bad for the kids, and I can say it probably contributed to behavioral issues. I worked 12 hour+ days some of these kids where there that long for the after school program.
Is it possible that the ‘dumb politicians’ were skill making and the result was malicious compliance and active sabotage?
It’s perfectly possible to make school lunches health and good.
I’d I was ever fed a us school lunch, I’d certainly put the experience down to enemy action.
Austerity Potter
Harry Potter joins the navy.
Temu Potter
Is this real? I thought it was a joke. Is it because they don’t want school kids knowing what a big school meal looks like?
I don’t think any Harry Potter came out this year? So AI slop?
I looked up “new Harry Potter” and found that there’s a TV series releasing on HBO later this year. I’m assuming this image references a trailer for the show.
This was not in any way difficult.
I’m just too tired to look it up myself, sorry
It’s coming out this year, so maybe trailer screenshot
Transphobes starving misfit children is nothing new.
Just remember folks - if you really really can’t go without it, the only ethical way of watching Harry Potter is by donning your hat and parrot. 🦜
This just goes to show how ignorant some fans are! They use OWLS, not parrots! Some people! /s
Also remember to turn off seeding if you do
This makes no sense. It’s better to make it easy to get in a non-profit way.
I disagree, making it less available adds an extra barrier (assuming that magically you are the only available seeder for this hypothetical torrent which is a stretch). And my expectation is that people who are pirating tend to be more willing to wait for a few days on a torrent than they are to pay for a shitty movie.
Imo nobody should download or watch the movie regardless, it’d be better if the whole thing just got removed from the public conscience. So I say don’t contribute in any way to helping people keep the garbage alive. If you truly must watch it yourself you should do it alone in a dark room with a pirated copy in shame and erase any traces of this asap (again, in my opinion).
Why
Cause the world is better off without
So you’d take away the option to steal from a terf, and replace it with an option to pay the terf.
Sorry I’m still not seeing the logic here.
Make sure that anyone else who really needs to see it but doesnt want to support cuntery is forced to either go without it or support cuntery.
Pull the ladders up, chaps!
Cuz fuck em, that’s why
In the books, the school putting out a huge feast for the students is supposed to show the stark contrast of starvation and abuse Harry went through prior to Hogwarts. If this is a sign of how little effort they’re putting in I’m thrilled… Let it bomb and bomb hard. Terfs don’t deserve our time or money
BuT iT crEaTEd a GenERaTiON oF rEAdeRs!
It’s interesting how the books never truly question the class consciousness that is at the heart of his backstory.
It’s a childish attempt to talk about morality. A “muggle” that can’t be accepted unless they are truly exceptional. Race based names. The poor Irish. Ya she been a racist.
Thats because rowling was writing a story about maintaining the status quo. Its interesting just how much she wrote overtly class conscious inequality, like wizards being an isolated superior class who can act with impunity on muggles, but then hand waves it as appropriate and good because the alternative is “bad”.
That and a lot of the early books had an editor tweaking things.
Remember when Harry traded some food he bought with Ron even when he didn’t want Ron’s food? Then later he and Ron crashed the family car and Harry couldn’t be bothered to help pay for a new one?
The entire bit about the weasleys being poor was just another example of the horrible writing anyway. Remember how a metric crap ton of the ministry of magic employees commuted to work? Floo powder. Remember what they had just laying around at home in the burrow? Floo powder. If the weasleys were supposed to be way below the level of others, it wasn’t shown very well in random moments, just the ones where the author was deliberately making that the point of the scene.
At best, arthur’s choice of transportation was because of his obsession with muggle stuff, but if it was supposed to be another example of their poverty…
If I’m being really charitable, the biggest thing that was going for the poverty/wealth divide in the magical world was where you lived. Castle/urban/picturesque = rich, while countryside/rural/cottage type = poor. But let’s not discuss the ‘magical villages’ because their details were always incredibly vague.
It won’t bomb unfortunately.
As much as Twitter and Reddit are up their ass about JKR her bullshit tends to remain only in those spaces. Most people don’t know she is a shitty person.
That’s also not even taking into account the number of people who probably support her.
Considering how many of those who complained about Reddits enshitification the last 5ish years are still on it… I’m sure they will also be bitching about JKR and still watching the show.
If I watch it, I won’t pay for it in any capacity.
They’ll all watch it so they can pick it apart meme by meme. But it’s ok, a hate watch doesn’t count.
Yeah, I’m down with criticism of the revising author, but they really did make some solid movies back in the day.
