{"id":749,"date":"2001-11-17T12:33:30","date_gmt":"2001-11-17T17:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=749"},"modified":"2014-06-13T15:46:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T21:46:34","slug":"the_down_side_t-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/17\/the_down_side_t-2.html","title":{"rendered":"The down side to the Harry Potter success"},"content":{"rendered":"

USS Clueless<\/a>, who lambastes people who see the success of the war so far only terms of the disasters to come, laments over the success of the Harry Potter movie:<\/p>\n

The one thing that Hollywood never seems to twig on: good movies are based on good scripts. Big name actors and lots of explosions and special effects cannot retrieve a lousy script. But rather than learning the lesson that “Harry Potter is a winner because it’s a good story, so let’s go find some more good stories” it’s a sure thing that in about 9 months we’re going t be drenched with Potter-alikes, because Hollywood will think that the lesson is “Stories about kids and magic are winners now.” And they’re almost all sure to be execrable.
\nAnd there’s a damned good chance that we’ll see a Potter-alike TV show next year. And it will be done with American actors, and it’s going to suck.<\/p>\n

I know far better than to predict that he’s wrong, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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