BSW - CAAyr2 - Film Review - Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone

Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone

We have completed our first film series lesson. We watched the film Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone which is a film I have watched many times in the past. However, this time I had to think about it in a very different way. I was watching the film to gain knowledge on the key stages of every film. Not just the beginning, middle, and end but the sub-stages that are in almost every film that we do not notice until researching them. We were briefed about Joseph Campbell's 17 stage Monomyth, which is the cycle of events that appears in all films. Whilst watching Harry Potter we had to look for these events to further understand the cycle.

For example, at the start of the film, the equilibrium is when harry is at home, as a normal kid. Then you have the call to adventure when Hagrid visits the house that the family moved to after the letters became too much for the dad to handle. Then you have the refusal of the call when Harry explains that he is "just Harry"...

At the end of the film on the return, you have the master of two worlds stage and this is shown when Harry is returning from Hogwarts and realises that it is his home and he will be back soon. He knows it's not over.

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