Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince To Feature Sex And Drug Parallels
Posted by Rodneyon 03. 07. 2008in News Chat
Danny Rad has compared the upcoming Harry Potter film to Trainspotting in a recent interview with Empire Magazine! We get the scoop from the following commentary graciously provided to us from our friends at cinematical:
I didn’t get beyond the fifth Harry Potter novel, so I’m not familiar with what goes on in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I never would have thought, however, that it features an adorable version of Voldemort (which reminded our own Kim Voynar of the young Anakin of The Phantom Menace), nor would I have ever imagined, in my wildest years, that it is anything like Trainspotting. Yet that’s what Daniel “Harry Potter” Radcliffe told Empire regarding the upcoming movie adaptation. He specifically likened Half-Blood Prince to the heroin-heavy movie, admitting that it is indeed strange to mention those two films in the same sentence. He also stated that in his movie, “there’s a fair amount of sexual energy and drug parallels.”
Having drug and sex parallels in the movie is AOK with me. Kids are dealing with these sorts of things at Harry’s age and I think that it’ s appropriate to deal with these issues and bring them to light. I am guessing that people will be getting high on dark magic or mystical mushrooms, but whatever the poison – it will analogous to real life temptation and drug use.
Hearing Radcliife compare this film to Trainspotting seems a little excessive, and has me wondering how crazy this film will get. Do the kids get their familiars to steal potion ingredients so they can rock the magic bong? Will Harry leave money for Hormine at the bus station? I haven’t read the books so I have no idea what they may be talking about, but the dark turn and increasingly serious subject matter certainly has piqued my interest.
***The above picture is from the book Harry Pot Head and the Marijuana Stone. The artist is The Root Of All Evil. ***
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your awesome doug, and i agree with you. but only one thing, i’m not a big harry potter fan
I remember there being some stuff about how the spells Harry is finding in the book are “darker magic” and Hermione tells him not to use them, but he does anyway…
But honestly, that book left so little impression on me that I have little idea what he could be referring to.
If one of the characters dies due to cat feces like in Trainspotting, I’M SO THERE.
Maybe there will be a scene where Harry drinks too much ale and shits himself on his girlfriends bed as she dries to have sex with him.
I have read the book as well and I don’t see ANY comparison to drug use or sex. (unless the visions shared in the penssive are supposed to be drug enduced- they were not in the book)
Hell, Harry barely manages to start dating Cho in the 5th book, and by the sixth it all falls apart with barely a kiss shared between them.
Oh yes, the sex… so much of it.
Those rock bass deserved what was coming to them.
I just saw the Harry Potter movies a while ago and have to say if anything, Hagrid is all about the Chronic.
I guess you can find any kind of parallels if you look hard enough, but Harry Potter and pot seems like a given to me. The author of Hairy Pothead sure managed to gracefully combine the two.
Aw, crap, I might not be able to see it.
agreed with Dan! I haven’t actually watched or read any of the Harry Potter stuff, nor does it really interest me too much…but if there is a scene were scat flies across the breakfast table, I want to be witness to it.
Radcliffe really shouldn’t be comparing it to Trainspotting though – I highly doubt there will be much of a comparison at all. Trainspotting was a fabulous movie depicting the darkest corners of a drug abusers world…I hardly think Harry Potter will be anywhere near the same kind of level. Still, I could be wrong…
You know, I miss the old days when they were PG or PG-13. I just don’t agree with it because you gotta remember: a lot of kids are growing up with Harry Potter. And to take a kid into a film that has sexual energy (whatever that means) and drug parallel when it’s a series they grew up with just doesn’t seem right. I mean, I’ll probably get to see it, sure, but I think little kids are gonna get screwed if the film gets an R rating. We’ll just have to see.
Well, without saying too much I can see where maybe you can compare Harry’s dependence on his copy of the Defense Against the Dark Arts book and the revised spells inside, but in a way it’s a bit of a stretch to compare that to a drug addition storyline. As for the sex…it’s more like sexual tension as all the hormones between the maturing characters seem to bubble more to the surface, at least that is how I remember it in the book.
Great. Now Harry’s gonna fuck Ginny hard against the wall.
I think the “drug parallels” in this movie would have to refer to the potion called “Felix Felicis” that is used. I can see how it could be interpreted in a drug-like way, here is the description: “Once consumed, the potion gives the drinker an exhilarating sense of confidence and a tremendous sense of opportunity. Until the effects wear off, all the drinker’s endeavours will tend to succeed. However, if taken in excess the potion causes giddiness, recklessness, and dangerous overconfidence, and it is highly toxic in large quantities.
That’s my guess at least.