Anonymous Notes

Intellect is defined as the capacity to learn. yet what we see most in our daily lives is the hedonism to our own ego’s.

When talking to another person our first reaction is to prove our intellectual superiority. Daily conversations are driven by random political, economic and scientific talk about which the spokesmen have little or no clue about. Their depth of knowledge on the issue can only be measured by the height of the Marinas Trench. See there we go again. Exhibitionism to the extent where its deplorable. The rules of society horde the ones with similar kind of preset notions and ideas together and hence increase the ignorance of each of these pools.

The only way in which both parties in a pseudo intellectual conversation can find closure is if they are equal and opposite in their ignorance of the subject matter Or if they have not found any common ground on which both have equally small bits of information. In the first case all is well each takes the other to be a ‘worthy adversary and the 2 might further their social acquaintence with further displays of pseudo intellectual conversations. In the other case they may both go their separate ways and have more pseudo intellectual conversation with other people on how the first conversant was completely ignorant on the subject.

But more likely than the above is that the 2 people in question will arrive at a point where 1 person will shiningly display their ignorance and convince the person in front of them that they are ignoramus. This serves nothing at all but to shatter ego’s and self confidence of people. And to boost the ego temporarily of those who see the battle as won. But a ego built on such ruins is but a building with a weak foundation.

enough blabber for now. I’d better get back to work

As my near and dear ones might recall. I had of late (read 2 years) been averse to occupying the barbers chair. It’s not that the sheer sight of sharp mettalic objects cause me unconditional palpitation but just because of a statement I have oft repeated.

Most men have 2 keratin related fantasies which they’d like to live out.

• grow long hair
  go bald

So I was living my first fantasy in the brief period that my professional life would allow me and today I have started living my second.

Photo’s in the gallery section soon

I watched the Movie a couple of weekends back and thought I’d write down my thoughts about it sooner but never got down to it.

Anyway here goes.

This movie is more a movie and less book. The classic elements of mirth and rejuvenation in the first half was followed through with a deeper and darker second half. There are added elements of comedy which were not present in the book, but at the same time since it was a pretty long book they had to cut off some parts.

Of all the characters Mad eye moody was a dampner in the middle of an almost perfect cast. My memories of Moody from the book were that of mystery, enigma and above all cool. Moody was the character who was a bit paranoid but came off as very powerful and potent auror and wizard. In the movie Moody is played by Brendan Gleeson who came off a bit more lathargic than I’d like.

SPOILER ALERT.

Apart from that they cut of significant portions from Madame Maxime, Rita Skeeter and they have done away with Ludo Bagman altogether. Also messed up were all the hullabaloo about the Veela’s which made some of the scenes involving the Beaubaxton girls come off as silly rather than charming. And the worst part was when they messed up the final sequence. No Blast ended Skrewts, No puzzles in the Maze.

More stuff that didn’t match up was Harry’s efficiency in handling the first task. And hence Harry’s was not the first contestant to enter the lake on the second task. Also Dobby is completely missing and Neville Longbottom figures out the gillyweed from the book that Moody gave him.

The Quidditch world cup venue was awesome. Although the respective mascots for the teams were not detailed enough. Also in this particular the editing table leaves a bit to be desired. The progression from the camp site to the stadium and back is kinda mixed up. The undertones of hormones has been portrayed amazingly. I can’t remember if Cho and Harry go to Hogsmeade in this book or the next but ther interaction in the movie is kinda limited. The biggest bummer of all was that Harry did not give his Tri-Wizard winnings to the Weasley twins. I’m guessing they left that for the next movie but it was there in this book!!!

The Dragons in the first task and the Merpeople in the second are remarkably and painstakingly done. Moaning Myrtle was played to perfection. The Goblet of fire and how it spew’s out the names of the contestants was again perfect. The Yule Ball scene was also perfect. The play of emotions by Hermione and dastardly indifference by Ron and Harry was perfect. Rita Skeeter’s character played by Miranda Richardson was great.

Overall the treatment of the story as a movie and not as a book adaptation went a long way in making it a better motion picture than any of the previous Harry Potter movies. All in all a must watch for Harry Potter fans.