I think what people miss here is that this is Americanisation that is the norm in most US movies. While the original movies were distributed by Warner Brothers, the producers were largely British, so were many other important people in the making of that movie. So they apparently stayed their ground in staying closer to the British source material.

In the remake those safeguards are gone. People just realise it because they see the contrast to the original. But look at other US movies, so much of it has fantasy scenarios that are still very “USified”, to not confuse the US audience too much. This is the most obvious when Hollywood takes up a successful foreign movie and makes a complete US “remake”.

It’s because it was offensive to Americans seeing children being fed at school

Iirc this is from regular breakfast in the trailer, not the huge start of the year feast

Just remember folks - if you really really can’t go without it, the only ethical way of watching Harry Potter is by donning your hat and parrot. 🦜

Do the wizards also gas their bananas? The choice of fruit here implies that wizards are bound to the limitations of modern farming and container shipping. The common prevalence of bananas in the real world boils down to a pile of technical limitations on growing and importing fruit.

1. Unlike most other common grocery store fruits they are tropical. Which means that they can be grown under normal conditions year round. It also means they need to be imported which would normally make them expensive
2. Bannanas can be picked green, shipped refrigerated, and ripened under ethylene gas (tomatoes and apples might also be in this category). This enables bannanas to be transported by ordinary container ships rather than needing to be done by air. This also enables some amount of stockpiling. This cuts costs a lot such that bannanas can be cheaper than local produce unlike most other imported produce that needs to be flown in.

Austerity Potter

“This year’s feast has been graciously provided by our sister school across the pond, the Gun Violence School of Magic! Their funding was cut again this year, so please be polite.”

Because HP is a role model for poor children, and poor children shouldn’t have the expectation of getting a feast ever. They should see the bare minimum school lunch and think it looks like a horn of plenty because US schools have been shutting down and reducing school meal programs. Real students don’t get anything.

Depressing brown on grey cinematography strikes again, even with Harry Potter

start of term feast vs regular morning breakfast?

but also why does the newer one look like actual school meals lol😭

This image makes me kind of wonder how crap a remake of the dinner meal scene from Hook would come out.

Is this real? I thought it was a joke. Is it because they don’t want school kids knowing what a big school meal looks like?

I wonder if they went out of their way to hire kids they “know” won’t grow up to be gay.

Did anyone ask for this to be remade?

Tbf that pile of chicken legs does not look that appetizing…or maybe just me