harry potter wins over imagination than star wars - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) Discussion

[–] A_Bob 8 years ago

Star Wars revolutionized the sci-fi movie genre as well as CGI. The HP series, while wildly popular, didn't change the genre of fantasy in the same way. It did make reading cool again.

Bob

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[–] ralph_2ndedition 8 years ago

Agree that Star Wars was the ultimate pioneer in sci-fi motion pictures. But as for the CGI, of which the original trilogy has none at all, that was brought to good use in The Abyss, more acknowledged in Terminator 2 and finally into full fruition in Jurassic Park.
Star Wars didn't utilize CGI until The Phantom Menace, and by then it wasn't extraordinary, just mostly overdone.

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[–] A_Bob 8 years ago

The original trilogy of Star Wars reinvented special effects in movie making, using cameras and computers in ways they had never been used before in order to make amazing shots.

Bob

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[–] ralph_2ndedition 8 years ago

Absolutely! No argument about that.
Still no CGI. That was Cameron and Spielberg, and in an even greater extent Dennis Muren & Co at ILM.

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[–] kimhardman-68140 8 years ago

Harry Potter and Star Wars both follow the Hero's Journey, a storyline hundreds and hundreds of years old. Joseph Campbell.

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[–] DoctorShemp 8 years ago

Yeah but a lot of content in Harry Potter is just classic fantasy elements reinterpreted. i.e. dragons, potions, broomsticks, etc. Star Wars is actually similar but translate it all into space

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[–] jajceboy 8 years ago

Harry Potter is much more creative and complex than Star Wars. Star Wars is a classical story, pretty simple. Not much under the surface. Fairytale stuff.

What makes Harry Potter great is that it isn't just a simple story. It has all kinds of layers underneath it, and you can find parallels with the real world in it. The books and movies tell so much about what's going on in our world.

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[–] !!!deleted!!! (64899393) 8 years ago

I don't know what you mean by imagination, but if it's a question of "more innovative and groundbreaking", then Star Wars wins easily, even though I like Harry Potter a lot.

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[–] DarkMessias 8 years ago

In terms of imagination HP is closer to the prequels where everything is explained and showed.
In the Original Star Wars the Force was a concept, we see some flashy powers but that whas not all of it.
Like magic in Lord of the Rings it was mostly something unseen.

In Harry Potter magic is waving wands and watching special effects.

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[–] pete-293 8 years ago

I saw Star Wars in the original limited release and loved it. at the same time I recognized it borrowed heavily from many classical science fiction novels and stories. The Death Star was exactly the same size and shape as Doc Smith's Skylark of Valeron. The stormtroopers are Heinlein's Star Ship Troopers. The cantina is straight out of Andre Norton's The Zero Stone. I could go on but why bother.

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain (Isaac Asimov)

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