According to Harry Potter film director Alfonso Cuaron, Gitmo is Azkaban and the American soldiers guarding the terrorists are Dementors.
"It's a myth for our times," Cuaron tells Entertainment Weekly magazine in its Jan. 23 issue. "You read about Fudge and the Ministry of Magic - that's Tony Blair! And Guantanamo is not that different from Azkaban. There are Dementors there, too."
Further ruminations on Blair:
Cornelius Fudge reminds Cuaron of Tony Blair. "He’s the ultimate politician. He’s in denial about many things. And everything is for the sake of his own persona, his own power. The way the Iraq thing was handled was not unlike the way Fudge handled affairs in book four."
No word on what J.K. Rowling thinks of the director politicizing a children's film.
Posted by floridacracker at January 22, 2004 10:10 PM