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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

 
  

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Our Lady Has Left the Building
14:32 / 05.02.06
Here we go then. Wonder how the script will butcher this, there's not much that happens but the build up of tension will be a shame to lose...
 
 
Mistoffelees
16:35 / 05.02.06
I won´t be sorry, if they cut off a lot of the story this time. It was the only book, that dragged. They can cut a lot of Harry, friends and order being miserable at Sirius´ home. We don´t need to see Harry having fits & detention and talking like Discworld Death all the time, either.

Concerning this thread:
Can we assume, everyone reading here has had enough time to read the book? Or would people like SPOILER warnings?
 
 
Alex's Grandma
19:43 / 05.02.06
As long as Harry's punished more in this, and it looks like it really hurts, I'm sold.
 
 
Mistoffelees
22:38 / 05.02.06
After the torture of the last movie, that bloody pen shouldn´t even make him flinch.

Then again, I remember his girlfriend torturing him by making him go to that café and confusing him with dating talk.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
06:47 / 06.02.06
Evanna Lynch IS Luna Lovegood and Helen McCrory is Bellatrix Lestrange. Hmmm, Evanna is several years younger than the main cast, isn't Luna supposed to be the same age, or is she just younger and goes to the same lessons due to Dumbledore's incredibly lax opinions on class structure?

As for spoilers, talking about what happens in the book is okay though I'd suggest bringing up the subsequent books should be done only if you think it's really necessary, just in case we manage to spoil them for someone.
 
 
Mistoffelees
12:50 / 10.02.06
Looks, as if the movie is of to a bad start. Gary Oldman will possibly not play Sirius Black.

Today on imdb.com:

"Actor Gary Oldman looks unlikely to reprise his role as Sirius Black in the next Harry Potter offering, after reports he has been mysteriously axed from the wizard franchise. Oldman, who has appeared in the last two movies adapted from JK Rowling's popular children's books, has yet to be signed for a third term - even though filming for Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix has already begun. The actor's manager, Douglas Urbanski, tells British newspaper The Sun, "You will be shocked to learn there are no plans for Gary to appear in the film. To say we are puzzled is an understatement at the very least! We are left with no choice but to pursue other employment for him." Vanessa Davis, spokeswoman for production company Warner Brothers, confirms no deal has been reached, but insists there is still time to resolve the confusion. She says, "With any film the priority is confirming the cast who will be on the set from the outset." "

If this is true, I can´t think of who might replace him. Maybe JKR would like Hugh Grant (I better not joke abut this...)?
 
 
Jack Fear
12:58 / 10.02.06
No Gary Oldman?

Gasp—You don't think they'd kill off Sirius, do you?!?
 
 
Mistoffelees
11:04 / 11.02.06
Hehe, just imagine, Hugh Grant playing Sirius instead of Oldman, and having that Last Stand and flying through that one way zombie portal. All the children at the theatre wailing and the adults cheering...
 
 
FinderWolf
13:09 / 11.02.06
Several reports at Aint It Cool News (in the talkback section) say that basically, Oldman's people were just trying to get more money in negotiations for the next film, and that the Sun (hardly a bastion of journalistic integrity) has distorted the story. They report that Oldman will indeed reprise the role and that all the hubub exaggerated. However, these reports are as yet not officially confirmed.
 
 
Jack Fear
16:46 / 21.11.06
First teaser trailer accesible via this page. Just under a minute. Gary Oldman is present and accounted for, Daniel Radcliffe is solidifying into an actual presence, and it looks like everyone's had a haircut except Snape.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
17:05 / 21.11.06
Dang. I was all about Radcliffe with the shaggy hair.
 
 
FinderWolf
17:21 / 21.11.06
The last shot of Harry flying over [what looks like the London skyline or some major British city] looked rather Superman-ish (with a mediocre bluescreen as in the classic first Superman film). The trailer looks fun overall.... the kids takin' it to the streets and leave the castle/school area for once, which will be enjoyable. (I've read all the books, just going off what the trailer is showing us)
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
17:31 / 21.11.06
Well, I'm looking forward to it. I like the movies. They're fun to watch and there is, of course, my bloodthirsty interest in watching Daniel Radcliffe grow up into a fine-looking young man.
 
 
miss wonderstarr
17:57 / 21.11.06
Take one sip of Doxycide whenever you hear someone describe this film as "dark".

Take one sip of Oblivious Unction whenever you hear someone harp on about how fit Harry/Hermione has become.

Swig Essence of Rue whenever you read a review referring to the Potter series "losing its magic"

&c
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
18:33 / 21.11.06
Helena Bonham Carter looks creepy as hell in that, which is good.

Umbridge isn't quite as repugnant as described in the book, but without a Jabba style puppet I don't know how thay would manage that.

Apparently when Harry is using the punishment pen they changed the text he is writing and injuring himself with, it no longer relates to telling lies, and now says "I will not break rules" , which seems like an odd change.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
18:47 / 21.11.06
It should write: "I will not allow Kali within ten feet of me."
 
 
Mistoffelees
19:20 / 21.11.06
Take one sip of Doxycide whenever you hear someone describe this film as "dark".

From memory, exchange on another board about this trailer:

- looks much darker than the last one.

- yeah, I could hardly spot anything.
 
 
miss wonderstarr
19:27 / 21.11.06
I think Empire did that joke, more or less, this month ~ that by film #7, you wouldn't be able to make out what was on the screen. But it's probably occurred to a few people.

See also: most Batman movies; most reworkings of a show or film from the 1960s-1980s; Torchwood.
 
 
Mistoffelees
10:23 / 31.01.07
So what exactly is Harry doing in the Hogwarts stables?


Weren´t these mounts meant to be invisible?
 
 
Jack Fear
11:01 / 31.01.07
News flash: Daniel Radcliffe wows audiences playing a sexually-tormented teen with a screaming Oedipal deathwish!

But enough about Harry Potter. So what's Equus about, anyway?
 
 
Sniv
12:08 / 31.01.07
Wow, I never realized how much I didn't want to see Harry Potter's pubes until right now. Kinda reminds me of Radcliffe's Extras episode.
 
 
miss wonderstarr
15:28 / 31.01.07
He really needs a good meal and some Immac.
 
 
Mistoffelees
15:55 / 31.01.07
Richard Griffiths (he plays Harry´s uncle), will also have a role in Equus.

As far as I have gathered from amazon reviews, the play´s topics are criticism of our modern consumerist society, and the question what is normal/sane and what isn´t. A psychiatrist and his new patient, a young man who has blinded half a dozen horses, are the vehicles for investigating these questions. The reviews sound intriguing, but all these topics being tackled by Harry Potter and Uncle Vernon might be distracting too much from the original intentions of the playwriter?
 
 
iamus
17:44 / 31.01.07
Harry Potter and the Odour of the Penis?
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
18:04 / 31.01.07
I.

Did.

Not.

Need.

To.

See.

That.

(faints)
 
 
FinderWolf
18:55 / 31.01.07
Equus is about a young girl or boy (I forget, been a long time since I read the play) who goes to a therapist after a traumatic incident regarding the blinding of a horse. Turns out the lead character/patient has got all these sexual hangups and he (I'm using 'he' from here on since I don't recall) was in a stable making out/having sex with a member of the opposite sex, the horse freaked out, somehow violence ensued and he blinded the horse. Or something like that. It's like a repressed memory that the therapist character has to get the bottom of/bring out. It won lots of awards back in its day. It's a pretty solid play - I think it was written in the 80s.
 
 
Jack Fear
18:59 / 31.01.07
Sigh.
 
 
grant
19:28 / 31.01.07
"Equus is one of the most significant English-language plays of the past 30 years. Anybody who hasn't seen it or read it needs to, if they care at all about theater or literature." -- Randy Harrison.

Richard Burton was in the movie, for Flequus' sake.

What they really need to do is cast Michael Gambon as the psychiatrist... now *that* would be something.
 
 
Jack Fear
00:15 / 01.02.07
Barbelith: Where it never pays to feign ignorance for the sake of a joke.
 
 
lonely as a cloud...
06:52 / 01.02.07
...does anyone else think he looks just like Elijah Wood now he's grown up a bit and got his hair cut...?
 
 
Mistoffelees
07:55 / 01.02.07
I agree. Without the glasses, he looks a lot like Wood.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
10:39 / 01.02.07
His acting style could be likened to Wood too. Am hoping he'll show previously hidden talents with this part.
 
 
akira
15:13 / 01.02.07
I miss read that last bit.

"Am hoping he'll show previously hidden talents with his part."
 
 
Foust is SO authentic
15:43 / 01.02.07
So... I haven't read the book... why is Harry naked?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
15:55 / 01.02.07
Well, the Phoenix ordered him to drop 'em.

Obviously.
 
  

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