Wizards
Wizards, part 1: Yesterday AnnoyinglyTannedHousemateEmily and I went to see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Certainly the best of the Harry Potter films to date. It has a new director who comes from an art-house cinema background, and it shows. One of my complaints with the first two movies is that they would be so much better if the pacing was just a tad slower. This third film gives you a chance to breathe as you watch it, to take in the stunning visuals. And the music is great. A completely new score by John Williams (the music on the second movie was a great disappointment as it was just a rehash by another composer of Williams’ score for the first movie). One of the features of this score is “Double Trouble”, a renaissance musical setting for the “Double, double, toil and trouble” speech from Shakespeare’s MacBeth. Oh, and in case you want proof that I’m actually listening to the soundtrack, you can check out a new feature I’ve added to the website. On the right-hand bar on my blog, there’s a box labelled “Now Playing”, that shows the song I’m currently listening to (or most recently listened to) in iTunes. It’s put there automatically by a cute little program called RecentTunes. So even if I’m not writing new entries, you can still see what I’m listening to.
Wizards, part 2: I’m currently reading Body of Secrets, by James Bamford. It’s about signals intelligence operations by the NSA and GCHQ. One third of the book in, I’ve read about sigint operations from World War II through to the Vietnam War, with fascinating stories of cryptographers on dangerous missions in little frigates sailing defenselessly in the waters of countries that don’t want them there. (Oh, and the wizards reference? After I got home from the movie and opened the book to continue reading, the first two words I saw were “One wizard”, referring to a cryptanalyst aboard a Navy ship.)
Comment by sister sarah
Douglas, I loved this film best of all the HP films to date as well.
Good Choice!!
But did you notice how Neville and the Weasley Twins seemed to have grown so much?? Even Malfoy??
