As one of the few blockbuster franchises in Hollywood, Harry Potter is actually more likely than Pirates of the Caribbean to expand into a cinematic universe IP, and people like to talk about the concept of 'Wizarding World' when they study its success and try to replicate its merits. Rowling's meticulous foundation is the true and credible foundation of the whole world, and it is the foundation that makes countless fans delve into it and forget to return.

But actually-

The official forced the same people to die, isn't this sentence true enough?

Not to mention the author who has written the "Harry Potter" fanfiction, as long as the reader who has read the "Harry Potter" fanfiction can find that as an end-to-end series, its worldview seems to be complete, but it is actually full of bugs.

Take Harry Potter's parents, for example. According to Rowling, the pair died at the age of 21, on the last day of October, on October 31.

At the same time, Harry Potter at that time was exactly one year and three months old.

On the face of it, there is nothing wrong with this set of data.

But if you do a simple arithmetic, you will find that there is no logic in it.

Because Lily Potter was born to Harry Potter at the age of twenty and conceived at the age of nineteen.

Whereas. Rowling gives her age at graduation at Hogwarts as eighteen years and five months......

Seeing this, there may still be people who don't understand why this age is outrageous.

After all, according to the memories of Half-Blood Prince Snape, Lily Potter was already in love with James Potter at Hogwarts.

Isn't it very reasonable to get married after graduation and have children when you get married?

But......

You need to know! At. When Rowling describes the legendary story of Harry Potter who was able to stand up to Voldemort and not die! That's a heavy rendering of Voldemort's previous opponents! That is, Harry Potter's parents! How strong!

At. In Rowling's pen, Lily Potter was targeted by Voldemort after graduating from Hogwarts, and escaped Voldemort's pursuit three times, and during this time, she also dealt with the death and funeral of Harry Potter's grandparents, attended the wedding of her eldest sister Penny, and was heartbroken because the other party refused to let her be a bridesmaid......

That's kind of hilarious, right?

There was only an eight-month gap between Lily Potter graduating and becoming pregnant with Harry Potter!

And in the gap of eight months, you can get two red things! A white affair! By the way, in the fight off Voldemort three times?

As the most dangerous dark wizard in history, do you have the energy to do this and that while being targeted by him again?

So is this a no-nose monster too rubbish, or is the Porters too bullish?

The reader is not allowed to be his sister.

So I sent a letter to ask.

Wait. Rowling received a letter of inquiry from a reader, and found that she had written a shocking bug, so she had to go back and eat the book, patching up "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", prolonging the battle between the Potters and Voldemort, and saying that in the dark age of magic at that time, it was a reasonable thing for pregnant women to stick to their posts!

So......

The original author has spoken out, so the BUG is not a BUG, right?

But even so? Similar contradictions are still repeated in Harry Potter.

And in the case of the original authors all starting to eat books like crazy to make revisions? The argument that the real and credible world is the root of attraction is simply untenable, but after removing it? Left before the world? Actually, it's just people.

Cute Harry Potter, smart and beautiful Miss Beaver? Some mom boy's stupid Ron, the little young master Malfoy who was born in the Death Eater family? The timid and fearful Neville......

When these distinct children come together? All can find themselves in them.

The sense of substitution that arises from the matching of personality and appearance can make the surrounding wizarding world more intimate, and when the cold Snape and the kind Headmaster Dumbledore appear one after another, the good teachers and bad teachers in the school? It will allow school-age audiences to find every shadow in their lives from the movie......

And this? In fact, this is the key to the appeal of "Harry Potter".

When audiences who have never read a book think that these actors are cute, and that these actors are very similar to their own experiences or current experiences, there is room for the interesting magical world to play.

There is a way to rise from the ground with thousands of high-rise buildings.

If there are no these guys with distinct characteristics who have captured the hearts of the audience, what about the so-called scene restoration? Isn't it just a joke?

Because only if you like it first, you will dig into it later.

And if you don't dig deeper? Who would have discovered that the mysterious and silent Hogwarts is full of myriad secrets?

Who knows? Countless big names have been born in a solemn restaurant?

Who knew that a poignant story was buried in a mysterious basement?

Who would be expecting? What is the real state of each character when they shine in the Mirror of Eris?

Although in the era when visual effects were just emerging? No matter how bad a movie is, can it get a super high box office? But if you want to change from the success of a single number of parts to the success of a series, it is still some details that the public does not care about but likes.

If you can succeed by burying your head in the visual effects, then it is strange that "Tomb Raider" can't get the box office of "Harry Potter"!

It is a tragedy that "Pearl Harbor" cannot break the box office record of "Titanic"!

"Jurassic Park" will not collapse more and more when filmed!

So, even from a professional point of view, the completion of the Harry Potter series needs to be improved, because its pacing, camera movements, and editing can be better, but in the eyes of the creators, this is actually enough.

After all......

Movies are never made for a small group of critics and judges!

Whether it's a business or an award, it will eventually be pushed into the market and seek recognition!

In this case, instead of working on the camera movement and editing that only professionals can see, it is better to spend time on the selling points that the audience prefers, and when the silly Ron is flying the wizarding flag, and Harry and the little beaver are cheering him on one after another, this scene that countless adults will think is fake can still make the audience very moved.

In the end, Harry vs. Voldemort, the act of defending peace with both hands is indeed a bit pompous, but ......

It's just as hot-blooded!

Because cool special effects are not something that the audience needs at the moment!

Now all they can see is the friendship, courage and determination of the children!

"Whoa!"

"Whoa!"

When the lights came back on, the audience at midnight was in a commotion, cheering and talking.

"Steven is amazing! The disappearing glass was restored by him! I thought the scene where Harry was talking to the snake would be cut out by the production team because it was too dangerous for a teenager to come into contact with the snake, but I didn't expect them to actually drop Dudley in it! I was so pleasantly surprised! ”

"Yes, yes, and Diagon Alley! When Hagrid tapped the bricks with his pink umbrella, the sudden appearance of the wizarding world scared me! I was as emotional as Harry! It's amazing! ”

"Scared? Don't you think it's cute? Hagrid with a pink umbrella! Girl's heart! ”

"And the Sorting Hat! And the Sorting Hat! Wow! The visual effects were so well done! Especially when Harry was wearing it! The way that mumbling looks is so cute! I love him so much! ”

“Oh！ Don't you think it's terrifying to end up with Voldemort and Professor Quirrell using the same body? When I first appeared, I was scared straight away! ”

"Ahhhh I thought I was scared alone! I didn't expect you to be too? ”

"In the past, when we found that others didn't have long eyes, we would complain about whether other people's eyes were in the back of their heads, but now it's okay! In the future, we can directly say, are you being taken by Voldemort! ”

"Hahaha~ Isn't that the four eyes?"

"Yes, yes, yes! Or the four eyes that collapsed after being touched twice! ”

Listening to the disturbing conversations, Roland, who didn't have the heart to participate, took his daughter-in-law out of the theater.

And when he went out, the guy who had been interlocking his fingers suddenly stopped.

Such a situation made Roland turn his head in confusion, "What's wrong?" ”

But as soon as the words came out, he found that his wife had been staring at the surrounding sales area in the theater, and the scene of the crowd of people, a group of seventeen or eighteen-year-old boys playing fencing with magic wands, also made Roland grin.

Because—

The surrounding area is also made by their family.

And the profit in this is the number of roads around the books.

Since you don't go to movies, it means that you don't have to share the money with Warner, which invests half of it.

"What's the matter, you want to play too?" Roland approached his wife and asked with a grin.

Just as he was about to wave his hand and signal the bodyguards to buy a set of the surrounding ones, Kate shook her head, stopped her husband's coin scattering, and said, "No, I'm just a little weird." ”

"What's weird?" Roland was curious.

"It's strange that this movie is actually quite naïve, but why do so many people like it?"

Kate laughed at Roland's words, because after so many years, when he abandoned the fan filter and looked at this movie from the perspective of capital, he also felt that this movie was not as good as some ordinary action movies, but it was this denial that made him more aware of what Steven Spielberg had taught him over the years.

"Because, Steven will put down the shelf.

Since the main audience of this movie is children, it is natural to make this movie from the perspective of children.

So, if you look at it from an adult's point of view, it can be very naïve, but on the child's side, it's a classic.

As a director, you should deeply realize that one work cannot satisfy everyone.

So the trade-off has become something they have to do.

They don't take the comments of their peers seriously, but they have to listen to the audience.

Only when they keep shooting the things that the selected audience likes to watch, then success will always be with them. ”

Roland doesn't know if Kate understands his explanation, but he already knows why many people can't be directors well.

Because......

Can't let go of the body.

Because......

Don't have the courage to accept defeat.

When a director has achieved unimaginable success in a certain genre, lying in the gentle countryside and gnawing on the old book has become their favorite and most willing thing to do.

Just like George Lucas.

A Star Wars made him famous, and then, he enjoyed life.

Martin Scorsese, for example.

Gangster films started, gangster films grew, gangster films grew old, even in the process, he filmed "The Aviator", "Shutter Island", "Hugo", but the twists and turns of "The Irishman" and "Killer of the Flower Moon" let him return to his old ways.

Although they are all masters, compared with Steven Spielberg, the only director who has accumulated a box office of more than 10 billion since the birth of the movie, they are inferior to trial and error.

Why can Steven Spielberg shoot any genre?

Because he also made mistakes all the way!

People only saw the success of "Jaws" and "Contact of the Third Kind", but they did not see the blood loss of his "1941".

People only think that he is highly sought after for "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Jurassic Park", but they didn't find that when filming "Broken Lock Fury", he was sprayed by the media and the audience like a street rat......

The so-called open-hanging success is based on the perseverance of hitting the south wall and still not looking back, and it is precisely because he has been criticized by the media, abandoned by the audience, and cursed by film critics, so his figure will be more soft......

Anyway, I've suffered all the hardships! Then when I'm working on a new project, I'll be able to do whatever I want!

When rushing for the prize, the audience felt that he was detached from the masses?

Come on!

I'm not here to show you!

In embracing business, critics thought he was too naïve?

Come on!

I'm not here to show you!

When he made it clear that this movie is to serve a group, all the slander is just papier-mâché garbage, and while being fearless, it can make a classic!

After all, the so-called classics are originally found to be excellent by one-third of the people, and by one-third of the people, they are considered acceptable......

As for the remaining third?

It's not about the big picture.

What about those directors who can't see through it and still have a dead face?

can only be when he was scolded, he was incompetent and angry.

After watching "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", Roland didn't pay attention to public opinion from the outside world.

Although he has long forgotten the content of the Chris Columbus version, and rewatching "Harry Potter" has not been able to regain the joy of the past, he still believes that the film made by a director who can put down his body and follow the original book will not disappoint.

And with the box office feedback brought by the unified release of the United Kingdom and North America around the world, the high numbers are satisfying.

On the first day of release, the North American box office reported 32 million, and the British box office reported 4.8 million.

The next Saturday, the increase of more than 4 million brought the cumulative box office in North America to 68 million, and the increase of 11 points in the United Kingdom was not small, pushing the total to 10.12 million.

But with the arrival of the third day......

The single-day result of 41 million in North America and 6.7 million in the United Kingdom made this movie directly break 100 million!

Three days!

The global box office is 125 million!

Steven Spielberg became the second director in the world to break 100 million in the first weekend!

And the first one......

People are hanging up!