Daily Dialogue — August 3, 2015

HAGRID: You’re a wizard, Harry!
HARRY: I’m a what?

— Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001), screenplay by Steve Kloves, novel by J.K. Rowling (novel)

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Call To Adventure. Today’s suggestion by Katie Cobb.

Trivia: Warner Bros. originally considered making the entire “Harry Potter” series as a set of CGI animated films, or attempting to combine several of the novels into a single movie. The studio’s reasoning mainly had to do with concern over the rapid aging of child actors-if production ran too long on any of the films, or if production was delayed between sequels, the leading actors might have to be recast. Author J.K. Rowling vetoed both the ideas of combining books and an animated film, so the studio decided instead to produce all seven (later eight) films back to back so the same child actors could play their roles in every film.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Katie: “This line is so memorable. It’s the perfect call to adventure as it’s the turning point in Harry’s life, when an entirely new world is opened to him. I remember hearing that line for the first time as a kid, and it still gives me chills when I watch it today.”