Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Full Screen Edition) (Harry Potter 1)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Full Screen Edition) (Harry Potter 1)
by Chris Columbus

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DVD Review: Harry Potter and the Remediating Elites
Summary: 4 Stars

Gather'round children, I have a different interpretation...

Americans receive from Dr. Chomsky's propaganda filter, a certain measure of what is called psycholinguistic programming. Now what on earth could that be, pray tell? Let's just be honest, at this point in the deluge, its all programming of that nature, a sophisticated interleaving targeting demographic anatomies of wet membranous human development factors in the emergent plight of any human being, of or from what ever background, as this weird world is unfolded before their eyes and ears..over the years..and fed to them with little "spoonfuls of sugar". Willie Wonka tried to show us how people would become divided, fragmented and particlized for cheapened transmissions through the air waves, a fictitious portrait of mankind hanging over our heads, the surrogate and smothering retort that refuses to see reality, and refuses to hear its cries from beneath.

Education in Great Britain, the famous boarding schools, academies, Oxford, Trinity, are what's really being metaphorically paralleled into this psycholinguistic media dimension of distractions and misdirections. The places of learning for the elites, from when they were pups...like you dear children...to when they are old, and still philosophizing the tragedy of a world they presume to control and comprehend better than any of us. They are whom we take our orders from, our betters, all neat and uniformed and speaking the Queen's English. But Harry Potter doesn't go to school to learn economics, mathematics, social sciences, he's their to flirt with the black art, the necromancy, to make colored smoke plume from pestle and mortar. Perhaps chemistry, you'd say? I decline to honor that reply, it should be obvious he doesn't learn a thing at Hogwart; he merely learns to take his place in a school pageant of sorts, caricatures and pecking orders that typify people, their kind, their like, and how from very early on we are all indoctrinated to defer to them, measure them, and accord them those artifices of esteem, class, import, capacity, or altogether any worth whatsoever. Harry is role playing for you my dears, and he wants to be sure you Don't understand that knowledge is power, literacy is power, a defensive and critical view is power, not any tinctures or incantations he flips with his wand.

But he is flipping a wand, and saying those incantations, he is obscuring the founts of wisdom and making them seem something else isn't he? Well...illusions are what magic acts are all about. And that illusion spun for you, is that your betters are sorcerers, capable of what you are not. Don't even ask, you cannot apply nor afford it. "Know Your Place" That is the most awful thing to hear people say, when after all, they are trying to amuse you, and take your money for it. Know your place behind the ones front and center, or the One front and center, the modern myth of concern for the "idol". This, all movies are about now days. Harry Potter, the book, is an "idol". Brittany Spears, an "idoll". You get my point. There is even a ridiculous program on American tv called, "American Idol". With so much idolatry, superstition and such, we regress to a dependence on that medium, the entertainment media, to set the standard for our enjoyments, rather than go out to find and originate them ourselves, to break from the pack and discover that their charisma is no more valid than anyone else's or our own. That way, you can always laugh when someone tells you, "You're no Harry Potter!" Seems too absurd to conjecture, but one of the favorite illusions of image wrecking spin controllers, is to deny whom they don't like an identity unto their own. This fools the target quarry, and just for a moment, leaves even them wondering why "they're no Harry Potter!" This is all that idolatry really achieves in the end...people harboring behind abstractions and denying who they are or who anybody else is.

So...like the good witch Glenda...I'm sprinkling this little snow job on you, to get you to wake up. Remember that Wicked Witch from The Wizard of OZ: " Puppies, we'll make them sleeeeeeepy, puuuupies..." And remember how Dorothy and her trio of anthropomorphized adult constructions, Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion fell victim to her? Don't fall asleep saturating yourself with the commercial crop of fad and fancy retail sensation. Read a book, read Harry Potter, then read something more grown up. Expand that vocabulary and the view to a world, that even if it lacks the pizzaz of magic acts, is subtly in some respects far more invidious, transmogrified, and darkening. Avoid the obvious conclusions laid out for you like chum, the polarizing filters mass produced and everywhere you look...yes children...even the red ones, the white ones, the blue ones, and the stars. Idolatry...idolatry...and affectation. What would require such distraction...hmmm? iluuuuuusions? "Oh My!"

Abracadabraham Lincoln!

Go get that broom from areas of doubt or trepidation you feel overpowered by, the ominous and sinister especially. Then clean the cobwebs out of your mind and out of your institutions, educational, governmental, or corporate! We forget how impressionable we are...

Description of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Full Screen Edition) (Harry Potter 1)

DVD Features:
DVD ROM Features:Be sorted by the sorting hatCollect wizard trading cardsDownload Quidditch screensaver and your own RemembrallReceive Owl email messagesSample game demosAnd much more!
Deleted Scenes:Never before seen footage
Featurette:Self-guided tour of Hogwarts, including the Gryffindor common room, the Great Hall, Harry's room, and Hagrid's hut conrtolled by your own remote.Learn how to play Quidditch with an original Quidditch montage featuring Oliver Wood and Harry.Meet the ghosts of Hogwarts.Open a Screaming Book, enjoy video highlights of students and professors, and much more.
Interactive Menus
Interviews:Interviews with Director Chris Columbus and Producer David Heyman.
Other:Catch a Snitch with your remote!Have a wand choose you at Ollivanders wands.Cast a spell over a scene in eight languages with "Harry Potter throughout the world".Sneak past Fluffy and other challenges to reveal the secret in the Mirror of Erised.Create potions correctly or wind up in the infirmary.
Scene Access
Theatrical Trailer