As another year begins for Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry so does the never-ending articles stating that he and Dumbledore (Micheal Gambon) are insane. As the ministry starts to invent new and malicious lies about Harry's account on Voldemort's (Ralph Fiennes) return, Hogwarts begins to change for the worse as the ministry sends in their cure for all the insanity, Professor Dolores Jane Umbridge (Imelda Staunton). Hilarity ensues as she begins to inflict her rules and regulations on the students at Hogwarts and they begin to find that with her as their teacher, they'll never be ready for the outside world. So Harry along with his friends decides to take things into their own hands and begin to learn magic the real way. As Harry starts having visions of terrible events happening within the Ministries very walls he decides to take action, leading himself and his friends into battle, ultimately teaching them what friendship, loyalty and sacrifice really means.
Trivia: The carpet in Professor Umbridge's office cost £50,000 to make. The character of Grawp was done by using a recent breakthrough in film technology, developed by Image Metrics, which allows a computer to map an actor's performance onto any character virtual or human, living or dead. The result is said to be far superior to standard hand-drawn computer graphics which are very costly and time-consuming. Evanna Lynch beat over 15,000 girls for the role of Luna Lovegood. The radish earrings worn by Luna Lovegood were actually made by Evanna Lynch.
Cool Beans. It was a very good movie. Watching it in IMAX was awesome. I like the amount of compression in it. The book at around 800 pages had an extremely large amount of material in it and for the most part the movie had only the essential elements to it, although you would be better off having read the book to get the subtleties. Since this is a new movie and most of you probably haven't seen it yet I am just going to present a few random thought (more random then usual). I really really like Tonks (Natalia Tena) but she is only in a few scenes. Luna "Looney" Lovegood (Evanna Lynch) was great. The scenes where Harry teaches Dumbledore's Army were awesome. Professor Umbridge was a great villian in her saccharine sweet evil way. Ginny Weasley is going to be a really powerful witch. Helena Boham Carter chewed up the scenery when she was on screen, but she wasn't on for long. The Weasley twins exit was fabulous. The Thestrals were creepy. Dudley Dursley has really grown up (we didn't see him in Goblet of Fire). Dumbledore's Army is really good at the Stupify curse. Neville Longbottom is coming into his own. The Ministry of Magic is pretty much the way I invisioned it, except for the black glass on the floor, walls and ceiling in the lower levels. You can tell if someone is good or bad just by watching them apperate, The bad guys apperate in a black cloud, the good guys in white of course. Now I just have to wait 7 more days for The Deathly Hallows to come out.
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I can't wait until this comes here. They are holding a special for us here on the 20th. They will play all four movies in the theater during the day and then premier this last one in the evening. Then at one minute past midnight, they will begin to sell the new book in the bookstore. I'm thinking of making it a Harry Potter day with the boys.
"a recent breakthrough in film technology, developed by Image Metrics, which allows a computer to map an actor's performance onto any character virtual or human, living or dead."
Surely Weta get the credit for having already done this, or something very very similar, with Gollum four years ago?
We went to see this at the cinema. I was impressed with how well it was cut down. I've read the book a few times, and there was nothing I missed gone. Even the fact there _were_ subtleties to miss was an impressive feat for a series which...well, the adaptions are sometimes a bit lumpy in the pace department.
Anyway, Luna was brilliant though, and I thought Bellatrix was perfect. I even liked ho0w they'd done Sirius' house.
And I'll have to wait for about two weeks for the book while my sister reads it...I'm going on a complete internet/TV/newspaper lockdown until then. There'll be no shortage of idiots ready to say exactly what happened.
And Umbridge is _just_ like one of our teachers...
Wow Kim, That would be cool!
Emily, I think Weta gets the credit for motion capture, and the Image Metrics thing has to do with facial features or something like that.
And as for The Deathly Hallows (someone dies!) ;-)
Well, haven't I missed a lot!!! Brilliant reviews of the Potter films, as always Will.
How does the film compare to the book? at first I thought that Order was the worst of the books, but having re-read it I realise it is so much darker, and brings out the puberty years in Harry.
Apparently though critics are saying this is one of the better films of the 5??!!
Well, considering this is the shortest film and one of the longest books, a lot of material has been cut out, but it made it a good compact film with little fluff.
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