Harry Potter, Ten years of a world with few changes

From before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , the saga of the child magician has particularly marked two generations of readers and moviegoers, children and young people who grew up with the character and whose Age ranges from 10 to 20 years. It has been a phenomenon equivalent to what happened in the past with James Bond or Star Wars .

It is true that the influence of Harry Potter full movies covers a wider audience, because those who are 30 or more have also enjoyed the adventures of the Hogwarts pupil to the full and so will the little ones who are just learning to talk. But the identification goes beyond the fact of having been contemporary to the production of the eight films, but to the series of elements that define an era and, therefore, to the lens that serves to look at the world: we do not talk about the Cold War, and the sophisticated James Bond movie download spy atmosphere of the seventies, or the post-Vietnam lavish heroes put into futuristic situations in Star Wars of the eighties, but an orphaned child who partly refers to Oliver Twist and partly To Jesus Christ,

Harry Potter is the cinematographic incarnation of the mythology of the new millennium, according to a certain Manichean look that clearly differentiates the good from the bad, although in reality that hardly happens. It should be remembered that the first installment of the Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) premiered in November 2001 when just two months earlier, on the tragic September 11, New York City had been targeted by a Terrorist attack that culminated with the spectacular collapse of the Twin Towers as well as the parallel attack to the Pentagon in Washington.

In that same season, another fantasy-epic film was also released, the first part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, more oriented to adult audiences than to children. During the next year, Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings, somehow competed, although at the conclusion of the trilogy of Peter Jackson, the magician boy had reached the maturity enough to stay with the adult public that left the other saga. After the second installment, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), directed as the first by Chris Columbus , was given the helm to the Mexican Alfonso Cuaron to perform Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) An adventure where the protagonists had stopped being children and were already adolescents full of hormonal explosions. It should be remembered that Cuaron had arrived at the post thanks to his merits precisely to portray hot teenagers, as he did in Y tu mamá also (2001)

Which shapes figures like Dolores Umbridge. In this context, the way in which the two opposing potterian fronts end up are very striking: on the one hand Potter and his friends and, on the other hand, the outcast Voldemort and his allies: the world of the young vs the one of the Adults. The thugs Hermaioni, Ron, Neville, Ginny and the twins Weasley face the fascist air villains Belatrix, Malfoy and theirs. True that on both sides there are both young and old, but the culmination of the saga is very clear in terms of this generational gap. The world of young people vs. that of adults. The thugs Hermaioni, Ron, Neville, Ginny and the twins Weasley face the fascist air villains Belatrix, Malfoy and theirs. True that on both sides there are both young and old, but the culmination of the saga is very clear in terms of this generational gap. The world of young people vs. that of adults. The thugs Hermaioni, Ron, Neville, Ginny and the twins Weasley face the fascist air villains Belatrix, Malfoy and theirs. True that on both sides there are both young and old, but the culmination of the saga is very clear in terms of this generational gap.