Posted on 10/26/2017 4:00:52 PM PDT by markomalley
On the receiving end of entertainment there are multiple mental levels.
Prove it.
There is nothing in Hairy Trotter about wicca. Zero, zilch and nada.
So of course there have been stories about witchcraft for many centuries before Harry Potter.
Really? Who knew!
I would say "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (wicca and black magic) had more cultural effect in this cycle and it was out before the JK Rowling rewrite of Enid Blyton's boarding school (now with magic!) tales. Then of course there was "Charmed" which was being shopped around before 1997 and did include both wicca and other parts of the supernatural.
You can ignore all that came before, that is your privilege. But they still were there. And they had far more influence then you seem to want to admit.
Of course we would have to look at what lead up to the "explosion" and you would find it in just the things I pointed out before. If anything Hairy Trotter is a result rather then a starting point.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by that. How does one take (for instance) the film "Doctor Strange" beyond an entertaining diversion of a couple of hours?
I have no problem also holding those other sources accountable.
But why are you so up in arms when Harry Potter is criticized? The intensity of your posts is revealing.
Don’t forget ‘Bewitched’ and ‘The Addams Family’. ‘Sabrina, the Teenage Witch’ was around before Potter. ‘Bell, Book and Candle’ was 1958.
Everything about movies, down to the ambience of the theater itself, is a perfect setup for brainwashing. This means there is much more than meets the eye. The effect is also very strong when you’re in your living room watching tv.
So when the audience “understands” a given movie to be fiction or fantasy, what they understand is just the surface level. Beneath this are many other levels. Changing the way people think and behave has been an active agenda on the part of movie makers since the very beginning.
What are these "levels"? And what agenda do the producers of movies such as Doctor Strange and the Harry Potter flicks have beyond making a zillion dollars? I'll grant you that are political films with agendas, but Harry Potter? Not so much....
Brief example of multiple levels using unrelated content: Suppose there’s a tv show about a hero cop. The cop always wins, always gets his man. We’ve all seen it. The cop is very relatable. Lots of suspense, lots of action. Very entertaining.
By the way, the cop doesn’t like guns.
So here you see the superficial level message is good against evil. Meanwhile the underlying message is guns are bad and good guys should hate them. It’s very key that the audience is never told directly that they shouldn’t like guns. Many in the audience will never stop liking guns. But many others will.
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