I'm not putting this into other Prisoner of Azkaban threads because I want to focus only on this one thing and specifically if anyone else noticed it. There will be certain degrees of spoilers below, so if you haven't seen it, cover your virgin eyes:
I watched Prisoner of Azkaban again tonight (having only once seen it in theathers) and I noticed something I did not pick up on at all the first time around.
So Harry has a teacher named Reimus who at the end of the movie you find out is a werewolf. Reimus ends up being the partner in crime, so to speak, who has helped bring Syrius Black into Hogwarts. Harry, and everyone else for that matter, thinks Syrius and Reimus (since they're working together) want to kill him etc. Then the whole reasoning behind it is explained etc, but here is what I noticed this time. At first I thought maybe it was me just making something out of nothing, but now I'm convinced of it.
Reimus and Syrius are gay lovers. It's as simple as that. When Reimus is turning into the werewolf Gary Oldman (who plays Syrius) rushes to him, puts his heart on his chest, hugs him, is pleading for him not to change etc etc. I could see how someone could turn that into homosexual love, but since they had gone on and on about how they were such good friends back in the day I thought it was nothing.
Then Reimus gives his speech at the end to Harry and talks about how he has to leave Hogwarts because people there don't take kindly to someone "like him", about how people aren't used to his "condition" and that parents wouldn't be "comfortable with someone like me teaching their children". That whole freeking thing is a glaringly obvious metaphor for homosexuality and how it is treated in the world these days. Hell, while Reimus is giving that speech he had just gone back into human form after getting into a fight and so he was wounded etc, only thing was the wounds bare a huge resemblance to the types of topical sores AIDS victims get.
I felt stupid for missing it the first time around because it is so ********* obvious, but I can't help but applaud J.K Rowling (or Alfonso Cuaron, if it was his touch) for working that into a children's story. Whether kids see what they're really talking about or not, I think it's inclusion alone is worth a ton of respect and was probably a very ballsy move on the part of the writer/filmmakers.
I watched Prisoner of Azkaban again tonight (having only once seen it in theathers) and I noticed something I did not pick up on at all the first time around.
So Harry has a teacher named Reimus who at the end of the movie you find out is a werewolf. Reimus ends up being the partner in crime, so to speak, who has helped bring Syrius Black into Hogwarts. Harry, and everyone else for that matter, thinks Syrius and Reimus (since they're working together) want to kill him etc. Then the whole reasoning behind it is explained etc, but here is what I noticed this time. At first I thought maybe it was me just making something out of nothing, but now I'm convinced of it.
Reimus and Syrius are gay lovers. It's as simple as that. When Reimus is turning into the werewolf Gary Oldman (who plays Syrius) rushes to him, puts his heart on his chest, hugs him, is pleading for him not to change etc etc. I could see how someone could turn that into homosexual love, but since they had gone on and on about how they were such good friends back in the day I thought it was nothing.
Then Reimus gives his speech at the end to Harry and talks about how he has to leave Hogwarts because people there don't take kindly to someone "like him", about how people aren't used to his "condition" and that parents wouldn't be "comfortable with someone like me teaching their children". That whole freeking thing is a glaringly obvious metaphor for homosexuality and how it is treated in the world these days. Hell, while Reimus is giving that speech he had just gone back into human form after getting into a fight and so he was wounded etc, only thing was the wounds bare a huge resemblance to the types of topical sores AIDS victims get.
I felt stupid for missing it the first time around because it is so ********* obvious, but I can't help but applaud J.K Rowling (or Alfonso Cuaron, if it was his touch) for working that into a children's story. Whether kids see what they're really talking about or not, I think it's inclusion alone is worth a ton of respect and was probably a very ballsy move on the part of the writer/filmmakers.
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