decided to watch a movie in which the violence is less grotesque. The movie that I chose to watch was “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.” I chose this movie because I have recently read that the children’s book series Harry Potter has been rated amongst the most violent books meant for young readers. If you look at “Harry Potter” through a uses and gratifications perspective, children would most likely watch the first “Harry Potter” for entertainment, but continue to follow the series out of curiosity. Since “Harry Potter” is an ongoing series that is continually publicized by the media; more children want to know what it is about, so therefore in order to ease their curiosity they watch the movie. The more a child watches of “Harry Potter” the more of a Harry Potter fan he or she becomes. Since Harry Potter is now becoming a role model for these kids, they will eventually start to play Harry Potter, and most likely mimic what they see in the movies.
Most of the scenes in the “Harry Potter” series contain at least one or more acts of violence. One of the worst scenes in Harry Potter is one that includes two of the professors, and their demonstration on how to battle with their wands. After their demonstration they also chose two students; Harry and Malfoy, to do a student demonstration. This scene practically tells children that are viewing it that it is okay to fight with one another. The worst example set in this scene is that the professors are not even stepping in to stop their fighting, which sets the example that it is okay to fight. Even though I have seen the “Harry Potter” movies numerous times, I have never realized how much violence they show.
Harry Potter Movie Review
Harry Potter is an average 11-year-old boy who has lived with the Dursley family ever since his parents died in a car crash. For some reason the family has always mistreated him. On his 11th birthday a giant man named Rubeus Hagrid hands him a letter telling him that he has been accepted as a student at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. * Harry soon learns that his parents were ...
Within the first few minutes, Harry was violently fighting with dobby the house elf, as well as being verbally attacked by his uncle. Within the first half hour of the movie, Harry and Ron were being violently attacked by the “womping willow.” Within one minute there were about fifteen acts of violence against Ron and Harry, and the consequences for those acts were that Ron and Harry got detention, which sets the example that the bully does not get in trouble, rather the person that gets attacked gets in trouble. If I had viewed this scene prior to obtaining a higher level of moral reasoning, I would have gotten the idea that it was okay to beat up other people, and that you do not always get in trouble for it. Though the physical violence is pretty bad, it is also accompanied by verbal violence. For example, when Malfoy was verbally attacking Heromine, Harry, and Ron, he ran out of things to say, so he turned to physically attacking by casting a spell the caused Ron to cough up slugs. Though most children and people understand that magic is not real, they can generalize that some of the magic things that happen are similar to mean things that everyday people can do. Once again, after this scene, Malfoy was not punished, but Ron, Heromine, and Harry, got the ever popular speech that Malfoy will eventually get what he deserves. Though I can pick out most of the violent scenes in the movie, and understand that what is happening is wrong. Even though I understand that what is going on is wrong, I still find some of it funny.
If I have a decent idea of what is right and what is wrong, and still find some of the violent scenes entertaining, cool, or even funny, it makes me think about kids who cannot fully understand write from wrong. To a lot of kids, Harry Potter is a role model. It’s quite obvious when you see about 20 Harry Potters ringing your doorbell each Halloween. Since Harry Potter is an obvious role model, you can infer that some kids look up to him and probably model his behavior. If you look at Bandura’s bobo doll experiment, you can see that children mimic what they see, so therefore there is a good chance that what they see on Harry Potter is being mimicked by at least some of them..
The Term Paper on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: From Book to Film
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was the first of seven book series by J. K. Rowling first published on July 1997. It is about the adventure of an eleven-year-old boy who grew up with his aunt and uncle and later discovers that he comes from a family of witches and wizards. The film adaptation of the book was released in 2001 by Warner Bros. , and, like any film adaptation, has had its share ...
