Epic

The Epic I chose to blog about was Harry Potter. Not only is this series of 7 made into compelling books, but also into top-selling movies. A few of the qualities of epics are thus follows: long, on serious subjects, heroic deeds, some kind of quest, single combat, etc.
The moviees and books of Happy Potter definitely follow these characteristics. For example, in the first Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, it was Harry, Ron, and Hermione battle giant 3-headed dogs, go into the places of Hogwarts, their school, that they dont belong to search for the man with the name that no one speaks of: Voldemort. He is the keeper of the sorcerer's stone, but it is an object that only Harry can have control over. Together, rather than with an army of people or pupils, Hermione and Ron help Harry get far, and then leave him to destroy Voldemort.
In the second movie, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry has to battle a giant snake, the basilisk. It's a quest to destroy the monster. They are reatively long movies and very long books, which is why I think they can be considered epics. Perhaps they are not epics in which there are long speeches of people, or too many extended similes, or be written in a specific meter (ie dactylic hexameter), but with most of the other characteristics they match up. JK Rowling wrote a fantastically successful and epic series of books.