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Harry Potter and the Totally Unexpected Comparison

By the sound of it, little Harry Potter is all growds up.

Daniel Radcliffe, who in addition to being the face of one of the biggest franchises in film history, has not only remained levelheaded throughout his teens but has actually developed into a pretty good actor, is talking about the sixth of seven (or maybe it's seven-and-a-half or even eight) Harry Potter movies, Half-Blood Prince, which is due out this November.

And in comments published by WENN, Radcliffe is making some rather bold and strange claims. He says of the almost-certain PG-13 film, "There's a fair amount of sexual energy and drug parallels. We have a couple of Trainspotting moments."

Read that again: "There's a fair amount of sexual energy and drug parallels. We have a couple of Trainspotting moments."

Wow. And you thought conservative Christians in the midwest would have plenty to protest with just the witchcraft angle...but this, well, this is something else entirely.

That's a strange comparison, all right, aligning a boy wizard with drug-addled dropouts, and even Radcliffe knows it sounds a bit odd. "That's two films I never thought would be mentioned in the same breath," admits the actor, who is very clearly right.

So this November, choose life. Choose a job. Choose a family. Choose Harry Potter and the Half-Brood Prince.

Posted on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 12:38AM by Registered CommenterColin Boyd in , | CommentsPost a Comment

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