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#1027 08/15/00 04:20 PM
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>I guess we can take some small consolation in Rowling's published refusal to allow Harry Potter action figures in Happy Meals

Not to mention her retaining the right to cast the characters. She's already stated that Harry will be an English kid because she doesn't want a boy with an American accent playing the part.

Heck, I didn't even know I HAD an accent!!!!



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>She's already stated that Harry will be an English kid because she doesn't want a boy with an American accent playing the part.<

Way off track, but can anyone name me a Hollywood (or even American) movie where the villains have American accents and the heroes have English/Australian/South African/etc accents?

...I feel like this should be in tsuwm's 'multicultural' education thread....

(TEd, the single word 'heck' screams American accent to me!)


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Way off track, but can anyone name me a Hollywood (or even American) movie where the villains have American accents and the heroes have English/Australian/South African/etc accents?

Snowy River. OH American movie -- The one where Diane goes swimming in the river and gets eaten by a large reptile -- Crocodile Done Dee.



(TEd, the single word 'heck' screams American accent to me!)

I figured you'd notice! VERY VERY BIG GRIN!



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>but here is a link to the WB casting call for "J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"

So what's the internet version of "you can't believe everything you read in the papers"!



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> "you can't believe everything you read in
the papers"!

well, do you have insider information?! (I was swayed by the lightning bolt logo with embedded title :)


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>(I was swayed by the lightning bolt logo with embedded title :)

I did note the logo. Yes I do have insider information and the insider information is that the title isn't settled yet. We'll just have to wait and see.

Footnote: I understand that they have now agreed to release the film with two separate titles. Parts of the film will be shot twice so that the UK version refers to the Philosopher's stone and the US version refers to the Sorceror's stone - I just hope that they don't get them mixed up!

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One of the most-eagerly awaited movies in years, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, has received its world première in Leicester Square, London.
The cinema was turned into a replica of the magic school Hogwarts school for the occasion and thousands of excited fans, some dressed up in wizard hats and cloaks, gathered to catch a glimpse of arriving celebrities.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/film/newsid_1634000/1634408.stm

I've got preview tickets for next weekend - is the US version out yet? Is it out anywhere else and which countries are using which titles?


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it opens here the 16th, with sorceror in the title of course. it remains to be seen if it will be dubbed or subtitled in american.


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Many books that I read as a child had magicians, sorcerers, witches, fairies, and animals that could talk. A few kids got scared by the witches in the OZ books. From what I can gather, the Potter books have nothing objectionable in them. Certainly vastly preferable to the vile movies and TV and violent computer games and comics.


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>it opens here the 16th, with sorceror in the title of course. it remains to be seen if it will be dubbed or subtitled in american

I think, neither. Some scenes have been shot twice. I don't think that they have changed much apart from the words in the title. Even so, there are compromises for an international audience. Harry's house in Privet Drive would be probably a London thirties house - here is a modernised detached version http://compuhost.co.uk/houseforsale/ but a more modern house has been used to make more sense to an international audience (in some countries such a house would be interpreted as being too upmarket, apparently). At least the whole thing wasn't moved lock, stock and barrel to the USA as in so many film versions of popular British children's books such as Matilda (Aylesbury), Madame Doubtfire (Edinburgh) and the Borrowers (South of England). Still, I'll be looking out to see if they toast crumpets or english muffins.

It goes on general release here on the 16th as well.

I think that it will be less in need of dubbing or subtitles than the Full Monty or Chicken Run! We'll see.

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