- #MEGASHARE HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX SERIES#
- #MEGASHARE HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX TV#
On the other hand you can argue that the last three films have already been doing that. Still, surely no story can naturally divide and multiply without cost? Hollywood may be immune to accusations of commercial cynicism.
But it sounds on the face of it like a dangerous ploy. It has Rowling's endorsement: she has said it's her favourite film so far, perhaps because Steve Kloves, who is once more on adapting duties, has found fresh narrative vistas. With The Deathly Hallows, they’ve just gone and chopped the book in two, as if with one fell swipe from the Sword of Gryffindor. The Godfather’s middle film was all back story. George Lucas made three (terrible) prequels to Star Wars.
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This is that very odd thing, a series within a series. (He got lucky, of course: book three is the most satisfying and cleverly worked of J K Rowling’s seven plots.)Īnyway, seven films down.
The series really picked up only when Alfonso Cuarón, director of Y tu mamá también, took over on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Much shrewder than getting Chris Columbus, director of Home Alone, to make a pig’s ear of the first two.
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No wonder David Yates, a TV director without a single notable film on his CV, was hired to bring the last four films home. Film has never yet so closely aped the structure of television drama, only the episodes come not once a week but once a year. And so it goes on (and on).Īt Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 I sat next to someone who, not having visited the print element of the franchise, had in the time lag between the last instalment and this carelessly forgotten what a horcrux is. You might as well award stars to jihadism. Review Harry Potter? You might as well review global warming, or Bill Gates’s balance sheet. There is of course nothing more to be said. Adults who would sooner use diminishing brain-cell capacity to store more pertinent information can tell you who teaches Muggle Studies at Hogwarts, the uses of gillyweed and the difference between a grindylow and a blast-ended skrewt.
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