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You created your own world that has its famous and knowable characters
and creatures, um, which must give you
enormous satisfaction, and you've done it
by examining the real world and the world
of the imagination that our ancestors had, all the way back
through earliest myths. I was thinking
about the creatures because we were gonna
sit down and talk about this, and I realized that half the books fold
without those creatures, you know, they're so important. - Hedwig the owl.
-[Fry] Yeah. And then we move through
the Thestrals and the dragons, and they are key plot points and obviously, thematically,
they work in terms of life and death and power.
And struggle and treasure. But I realized when I really
focused on those creatures, just how important they were,
and that shows, we have a deep need, I think, to be connected
to the animal world
and creatures, um, which must give you
enormous satisfaction, and you've done it
by examining the real world and the world
of the imagination that our ancestors had, all the way back
through earliest myths. I was thinking
about the creatures because we were gonna
sit down and talk about this, and I realized that half the books fold
without those creatures, you know, they're so important. - Hedwig the owl.
-[Fry] Yeah. And then we move through
the Thestrals and the dragons, and they are key plot points and obviously, thematically,
they work in terms of life and death and power.
And struggle and treasure. But I realized when I really
focused on those creatures, just how important they were,
and that shows, we have a deep need, I think, to be connected
to the animal world
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You created your own world
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that has its famous
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and knowable characters
and creatures,
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um, which must give you
enormous satisfaction,
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and you've done it
by examining the real world
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and the world
of the imagination
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that our ancestors had,
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all the way back
through earliest myths.
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I was thinking
about the creatures
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because we were gonna
sit down and talk about this,
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and I realized
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that half the books fold
without those creatures,
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you know, they're so important.
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- Hedwig the owl.
-[Fry] Yeah.
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And then we move through
the Thestrals and the dragons,
00:00:38.337 --> 00:00:40.094
and they are key plot points
00:00:41.999 --> 00:00:44.001
and obviously, thematically,
they work in terms of life
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and death and power.
And struggle and treasure.
00:00:47.246 --> 00:00:50.783
But I realized when I really
focused on those creatures,
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just how important they were,
and that shows,
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we have a deep need, I think,
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to be connected
to the animal world.
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Movie Summary
The connections between JK Rowling's mythical Fantastic Beasts creatures and real animals that have roamed Earth.
