![]() ![]() A generation of readers and filmgoers has grown up with the bespectacled, wand-waving wizard and saviour of the world from Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey, and the appearance of the final film coincides with the birth of a fourth Beckham child, suitably given the middle name "Seven" which could as easily be the number of books in the sacred text as her father's former Man Utd shirt. ![]() Seven Rowling novels have been turned into eight films which take around 20 hours to see (or 36 hours if you watch the DVD extras), and the phenomenon is infinitely greater. On 18 November 2001, I began my review of the first Harry Potter movie: "It's difficult to separate the film of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone from Harry Potter the phenomenon – that astronomical budget the producers' worldwide deal with Coca-Cola the billion dollars-worth of associated merchandise the actors' complaints of being exploited by Hollywood the declaration by its director, Chris Columbus, that JK Rowling's novel merited the respect accorded to Shakespeare the endless opinions on its significance ranging from world premiere guest Brooklyn Beckham to newspaper moralist Melanie Phillips."Ī decade on, we have reached the end of what we now call "the journey". ![]()
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