This film, emerging four years after the original novel, marked the birth of a new consolatory pop culture myth, to rival Sherlock Holmes and James Bond, and the circumstances of its own arrival became mythic, from Rowling’s own early poverty to the snapping up of film rights.
Harry Potter emerged into cinemas as we were still all stunned by 9/11, but yet to see the retaliatory “war on terror”. It’s amazing and poignant to remember the sheer excitement of that HPATPS premiere in November 2001: I myself called it an “old-fashioned pre-September 11 news event”. 5 The film is the first of two cinematic parts based on the 2007 novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. The Harry Potter franchise itself is still a colossal commercial entity, an IP Shangri La, although its creator JK Rowling is now at the centre of an acrimonious gender politics debate – undreamed of in 2001 – and the world of children’s and YA fiction, which she almost singlehandedly revived all over the world, is strongly policed on just these issues. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 is a 2010 fantasy film directed by David Yates from a screenplay by Steve Kloves. Sadly, the actors who played the original Dumbledore, Snape, Uncle Vernon and Mr Ollivander – Richard Harris, Alan Rickman, Richard Griffiths and John Hurt – are no longer with us. These are 30 behind-the-scenes pictures you need to see, because after you do, you’ll see the cast in a new light.The very first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (or “Sorcerer’s Stone” for its release in the United States, where audiences were assumed to be unfamiliar with this alchemical term) is now re-released after 20 years, into a rather different world. Quite the contrary, the actors who play the most unlikable characters tend to be the ones with the sweetest dispositions. Ralph Fiennes isn’t the all out evil Dark lord, nor is Helena Bonham Carter totally cuckoo like Bellatrix Lestrange. We’d love to believe the actors are carbon copies of their characters’ personalities, but that’s just not the case. It’s easy to say that no matter how many awards the actors might win in the future, if they achieve further blockbuster success, it still won’t amount to the level of fame they attained thanks to Harry Potter. The frenzy of this series is such that, despite the film franchise having ended more than 7 years ago, its popularity hasn’t diminished in the slightest.Įven now, pictures of the cast’s fun days on sets leave fans swooning. The Harry Potter series stood at the topmost category of leaked images, with pictures of just about everything that would be included in the upcoming film at the time easily locatable.
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