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I just watched Sorcerer's Stone for the first time. Pretty damn good for 1/4 a century ago. I happened to read the book right before.

oh yeah the famous Sorcerer's Stone, that turns lead into gold.

>>213292811 (OP)
>implying time improves movie quality

>>213292811 (OP)
Why did the American publishers change the name from Philosopher's Stone to Sorcerer's Stone? Do they think American children don't understand the word Philosopher?

>>213292861
Philosopher doesn't sound as magical.

>>213292861
gives collectors a reason to buy more than one DVD. i downloaded the American release of Shrek 2, once, couldn't believe my ears.

I didn't mind Emma as Hermione, but Ron is supposed to be tall and gangly, and Harry has jet-black hair, not brown.

I suppose it's harder to film if Ron wasn't lined up with the other 2 in camera. The same with black hair getting lost in frame.

>>213293003
It’s okay because movie Ron is a nothing character who does nothing for half the films

>>213293003
>>213293052
can't fault them for not knowing how the kids would grow up, Rupert Grint was just a ginger 10-year-old.

but why the hell did they effectively write him out of the story? he was basically just there, moaning sometimes.

>>213292811 (OP)
Dont you mean Philosopher's Stone?

>>213293003
>but Ron is supposed to be tall and gangly, and Harry has jet-black hair, not brown

holy shit book autists are so cringe

why does it matter?

someone post the Hermoine pic with the panties

>>213292861
That was the reason yes, american children were too dumb.

>>213293163
explain how any of that post made you think of turdies, anon

>>213293215
a first-worlder would have
>catched
it, moron.

>>213292811 (OP)
You watched what? What is Sorcerer's Stone? And why did you post a picture of the Harry Potter movies?

>>213293123
So, you said we should have black Snape and Poojeta Hermione?

>>213293238
ah, so you're a turdie yourself hoping that by calling others esl, no one would call YOU esl. gotcha.

>>213292861
>>213293176
No, we're not that stupid. I never met an American who doesn't know the P word. J.K. Rowling probably demanded that the books have 2 separate regional names as a prank so rumors would circulate that Americans are too fucking retarded to define Philosopher

>>213293400
Sure :).

>>213292861
They thought American kids would think "philosopher's stone" meant the book was a boring philosophy book

Growing up is realizing sorcerers stone simply sounds better

i wake up every day and don't even realize that foreigners exist. it isn't until about 15 seconds into the internet when they bring up americans out of nowhere that i remember. god i love being american so much.

>>213293400
Scholastic did it, the publisher

>>213293529
100% this. Want to get kids to buy your fun magic book? Switch Philosopher with Sorcerer. Now the consumer knows exactly what it's about.
When I think Philosophers Stone, I think alchemy. There are also legends about it granting immortality, which fits the story, but Sorcerer just makes more sense when the whole series is about wizards at school.

>>213292811 (OP)
I once tried to watch one of these Harry Potter movies and I thought, "Man, this shit isn't for me" and shut it off.

>>213293665
Jesus, mutts really are fucking stupid.

>>213293621
The good news is that a lot of these faggots are going to banned from accessing the site soon.

>>213293712
That was me before I read the books.

>>213293400
>J.K. Rowling probably demanded that the books have 2 separate regional names as a prank so rumors would circulate that Americans are too fucking retarded
She sounds based as fuck

>>213294120
She isn’t. Remember, just because she makes trannys seethe it doesn’t mean that she isn’t a radfem that would rather see a man castrated than successful. She is part of the reason the troons are here now.

>>213294616
I didn't mention troons thoughever

>>213293762
We am.

>>213292861
>Philosopher's Stone
and Philosopher are very different. i doubt many kids today or 25 years ago had heard of it

>>213293621
>i do not think about you! you do NOT live in my head rent-free!!

we're all gutted mate.

>>213292861
>>213293400
It was Arthur Levine, the publisher who bought the rights for Scholastic.

>The one question I'd like to pose to you right now, Joanne, is how wedded you are to the title. When I edited the first installment of Philip Pullman's trilogy in the U.S. we changed the title to THE GOLDEN COMPASS (it was "Northern Lights" in the U.K.) which had a better reception here. Similarly, I'd like to propose an alternative title for the first Harry Potter in the U.S. I like the sound of HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE, but those who have heard of it so far have found themselves misled into thinking the book will have an obscure, "philosophical" overtone. Chalk it up to idiot Americans, but I think we'd be better off here with a title that was a bit more playful (and easier to design)

>What do you think of HARRY POTTER AND THE SCHOOL OF MAGIC. I think it has a nice ring to it; it evokes all the fun to come at Hogwarts without giving too much away, and it's a bit of a play on the sense of the word "school" (i.e. both an institution of learning, and a... philosophy as it were!)

>>213295349
>we changed the title to THE GOLDEN COMPASS (it was "Northern Lights" in the U.K.
Another stupid decision. I bet he would try to change the title of the Bible to "Jesus and Friends" or something

>>213292861
To be fair, how many children too dumb to know or have heard of a philosopher, would know what the fuck a sorcerer is ?

>>213292861
Americans are aggressively ignorant.

>>213292811 (OP)
free hindi link?

>>213298292
Tell me what Harry Potter has to do with philosophy

>>213298696
Nothing, but the stone has been called the Philosopher's Stone for hundreds of years.

>>213292811 (OP)
The first two books being so short means the adaptations were pretty solid, from book 3 on more and more stuff is cut out because Rowling just kept adding more pointless detail, but movie 3 in general is pretty good and widely considered the peak of the franchise.

>>213292861
Did a lot of kids, British or otherwise, really know about the Philosopher's Stone and its relation to alchemy/the occult/magic? I know Faust is a big deal in early education for Europe, but I would've imagined that the more magical elements would just be glossed over in favor of the theological ones.

>>213299392
You did a lot of kids, British and otherwiiiise???

>>213299018
It's a gay name
I'm with the Americans on this one

The amount of necroing for this dogshit thread is off the charts
no wonder they removed the IP counter kek

>>213293052
Threes a crowd, they should have killed him off in book 4

>>213299783
kys esl

>>213292811 (OP)
Why post POA?

>>213295349
Considering it was the first book and the Philosopher's stone is a thing from alchemy no children are likely to know about I think it wasn't an unreasonable choice

>>213295349
this just sounds like its arthur levine thats a barely functioning retard and not the americans
how do you even come up with those dogshit sub 80 IQ names otherwise

Harry's so lucky he has his cute bitch wife

>>213295007
Sometimes I go entire hours without thinking about the foreignfolk