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Did anybody else remember horcruxes when the maker spoke bout creating?

posted 15 years ago by dpac13
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did anybody else remember horcruxes when the scene where the creator speaks about splitting his soul into 9 different toys, or dolls, or whatever you call them...

[–] starwolf 15 years ago

Yes, there have been several comments along those lines.

But, as I am sure you remember, the purpose of the horcrux was to preserve the life of the owner. The stitchpunks had a totally different purpose.

I think. The plot still confuses me, but I don't care enough about it to become unconfused.

[–] dpac13 14 years ago

i get what you mean. the movie was a very weird anime. not much sense of diection or purpose. very random.

[–] Sylphadora 14 years ago

I thought about that, too!! It seems there are many HP fans out there

[–] dvdfreak66 14 years ago

my wife was on the computer as I was watching it and only half way paying attention to it and she mentioned that when that part came up.

[–] EvasiveDream 14 years ago

I also thought about Horcruxes, but they are made from murder and have an entirely different purpose than the dolls did.

[–] snowcub3 14 years ago

***SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN'T READ ALL 7 HARRY POTTER BOOKS***

Very off the top of my head, HP horcruxes are a kind of mirror image of the scientist's creative process:
1] Voldy shreds his soul for personal immortality, while the scientist creates new lives as he depletes his soul to death.
2] Voldy wantonly commits murder while the scientist is all about self-sacrifice.
3] Voldy is pretty much a one-trick-pony personality-wise and all we get to see - especially in the locket & ring - is the violent will of each soul piece to survive vs. the different personalities of the scientist's soul split into pieces and most have a self-sacrificing element; I've never thought of a soul as being as multifaceted as the person it came from. In '9' we see age, youth, curiosity, fear, bravery, thugishness, obsession, and more in each little character, most of whom are multidimentional, but don't individualy replicate the scientist with soul intact.
4] Since we're talking souls here, both clearly share religious overtones, or at least that spark that is LIFE.
5] Voldy shrivels up when all his horcruxes are destroyed, the scientist's soul pieces actually seed the clouds and foreshadow 'life will go on' - not necessarily as humans or 'sock puppets'.

[–] kur-3 14 years ago

No, actually not. The idea of putting a part of your soul into an object and so becoming immortal is much older than the HP series. It is used I think in the Arabian Nights and in Russian myths, see for example Koschei the deathless (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koschei). And I think it was also used in an old D&D adventure, where the heroes needed to recover a couple of objects to defeat the villain. Nothing original here.

[–] blckbuster 13 years ago

what it's really a lot more like is the myth of homunculi.

[–] dcaupos 13 years ago

I thought exactly the same thing.
Also, the machines look like the ones in the Matrix as the green/dark tone of the movie.
The whole story looks like a dark version of Wall-E too.

Good animation really, but lack of consistence in the story.

[–] jajceboy 11 years ago

I had the same thought too.
Great to see that I wasn't the only one.