Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a 2004 fantasy film directed by Alfonso Cuaron from a screenplay by Steve Kloves, based on the 1999 novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling.
It is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and the third installment in the Harry Potter film series. The film stars Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, alongside Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as Harry's best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, respectively.
The film follows Harry's third year at Hogwarts and his quest to uncover the truth about his past, including the relationship between recently escaped Azkaban prisoner Sirius Black and Harry and his deceased parents.
With this film, the Harry Potter series switched to a longer production cycle of eighteen months
. Cuarón was chosen as director from a list that included Callie Khoury and Kenneth Branagh.
The cast of the film's prequels returns, with the addition of Gary Oldman, David Thewlis, and Emma Thompson, among others. This was Michael Gambon's first appearance as Professor Albus Dumbledore, due to the death of Richard Harris in 2002.
Principal photography began in February 2003 at Leavesden Film Studios. It was the first in the series to make extensive use of real-life locations, with locations being set in Scotland and scenes filmed in London. Filming finished in November 2003.
The film was released on May 31, 2004 in the United Kingdom, and on June 4, 2004 in North America. This was the first Harry Potter film to use IMAX and was released in IMAX theaters.
Prisoner of Azkaban grossed $798 million worldwide, making it the second highest-grossing film of 2004, behind Shrek 2. Critics praised Cuarón's direction and the performances of the lead actors.
It is credited with significantly changing the series' tone and directorial style, and is often considered by critics and fans alike to be the best Harry Potter film. It was nominated for two Academy Awards, Best Original Score and Best Visual Effects, at the 77th Academy Awards in 2004.
It was followed by Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in 2005.a
Harry Potter is spending another unsatisfying summer with the Dursleys. On his thirteenth birthday, Vernon's visiting sister Marge cruelly insults Harry and his parents, and an angry Harry causes it to inflate and float away. Harry expects to be expelled for using magic outside of school, so he flees with his possessions.
The Knight Bus, an emergency transport for stranded witches and wizards, finds Harry and takes him to the Leaky Cauldron, where Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge assures Harry that he will not be punished.
After reuniting with his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, Harry learns that Sirius Black, a disgraced supporter of Lord Voldemort, has escaped from Azkaban and intends to kill him.
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During the journey to Hogwarts, the Hogwarts Express is boarded by Dementors, ghostly prison guards searching for Black. Someone enters Harry's cabin, causing him to faint, but Remus Lupin, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, repels him with a Patronus charm. At Hogwarts, Headmaster Albus Dumbledore announces that Dementors will patrol the school until Black is arrested.
Rubeus Hagrid is appointed teacher of the Care of Magical Creatures, but his first class goes awry when Draco Malfoy provokes a hippogriff named Buckbeak to attack him; Buckbeak was thus sentenced to death by Malfoy's father, Lucius.
When they return to Gryffindor Tower, the students find that the image of the Fat Lady has been attacked, and the terrifying Fat Lady warns Dumbledore that Black is entering the castle.
During a stormy Quidditch match, the Dementors cause Harry to fall off a broomstick, which is destroyed by the massive willow. Dumbledore uses a slowing charm to break Harry's fall, who later wakes up in the infirmary.
After leaving the infirmary, Harry is caught trying to visit Hogsmeade by Fred and George, who give him the Marauders' Map.
Using the map, Harry infiltrates Hogsmeade and learns that Black is his godfather, but reveals the Potters' whereabouts to Voldemort and kills their mutual friend Peter Pettigrew.
Determined to ward off the Dementors, Harry convinces Lupine to teach him the Patronus Charm. After the Divination class, he watched Professor Trelawney go into a trance and predict the return of the Dark Lord
. While watching Buckbeak's execution, Ron's pet rat Scabbers bites him and escapes, but a large black dog drags them both into a hole at the base of the Whomping Willow. This leads the trio through an underground passage to the Shrieking Shack, where the dog is revealed to be Black, an Animagus that can transform into an animal.
Lupine is shown embracing Black like an old friend before revealing himself to be a werewolf. Snape arrives to arrest Black but is knocked out by Harry's disarming spell. Lupine and Black reveal that Scabbers is actually an Animagus form of Pettigrew, who betrayed Harry's parents, faked his death and accused Black of his crimes.
After returning Pettigrew to human form, the group returns to the castle, aiming to expose Pettigrew as the real criminal and exonerate Sirius, but the full moon causes Lupine to transform and Pettigrew to escape. Black transforms into his animal form and fights the werewolf Lupine,
who critically injures Black. Black manages to escape when a distant wolf cry distracts Lupine and knocks him out. Harry finds Black, who are then attacked by Dementors until an unseen figure casts a powerful Patronus magic to ward them off. Harry loses consciousness and wakes up in the infirmary with Dumbledore and Hermione.
When Harry and Hermione learn that Black has been captured and condemned to the Dementor's Kiss, they act on Dumbledore's advice and use Hermione's time-turner, which was given to her to attend several classes at once, to go back in time three hours.
They see themselves reliving the events of the night and freeing Buckbeak from execution. After discovering that Harry and Black are being attacked by Dementors, Harry saves them using Patronus magic and realizes that he was the invisible figure who saved them previously.
He and Hermione free Black, who flies away in Buckbeak, and who remains on the run with no proof of his innocence. Harry and Hermione return to the infirmary, rejoining their timeline.
After Lupine is revealed to be a werewolf, he resigns from teaching and returns the Marauders' Map to Harry. Black sends Harry a Firebolt broom, and he happily takes it for a ride.
With the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, production of the Harry Potter films shifted to an eighteen-month cycle, which producer David Heyman explained "gave each [film] the time it needed."[9]
Chris Columbus, director of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ( 2001) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), not returning to direct the third part because he wanted to spend more time with his children. However,
Columbus remained a producer alongside Heyman, as Columbus felt that this ability provided him with a better work-life balance, allowing him to not be on set all the time and spend time with his children. 41] Guillermo del Toro was approached to direct the film,
but he envisioned a more Dickensian version of the stories, and was put off by the first two films, which he found "bright, happy, and full of light." Marc Forster rejected the film because he had made Finding Neverland (2004) and did not want to direct child actors again.
M. Night Shyamalan was considered as a director but turned it down because he was working on his own film, The Village (2004). Warner Bros. then compiled a three-name shortlist for Columbus's understudy,
which consisted of Callie Khoury, Kenneth Branagh (who played Gilderoy Lockhart in Chamber of Secrets), and eventual selection Alfonso Cuarón in July 2002. Cuarón was initially reluctant to direct, as he had not read Either books or watching movies.
Del Toro scolded him for his arrogance and told him to read books.[46] After reading the series, he changed his mind and signed on to direct, because he immediately connected with the story.
Cuarón's appointment pleased JK Rowling, who had loved his film Y tu mamá también (2001) and admired his adaptation of A Little Princess (1995). Heyman found that "[Cuarón] was a perfect fit in tone and style.
" As his first rehearsal with the actors portraying the central trio, Cuarón commissioned Radcliffe, Grint, and Watson to write an autobiographical essay about their characters, in script. In the first person, it extends from birth to the discovery of the magical world, and includes the character's emotional experience.
"Emma's essay was 10 pages long. Daniel's essay was exactly two pages," Cuarón recalls. "And Robert didn't turn it in. When I asked him why he didn't do it, he said, 'I'm Ron, and Ron won't do it.'"[49] So I said: Well, you understand your character.
That was the most important part of the acting work we did on Prisoner of Azkaban, because it was very clear that everything they put into those essays was going to be the pillars that they would stick to for the rest of the process.
Cuarón wanted to create a more mature tone in the characters' costumes and sets.
"What I really wanted to do was make Hogwarts a little more contemporary and a little more natural," he explained. He studied English schools and noted that "the individuality of each teenager is reflected in the way he wears his uniform.
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So I asked all the children in the film to wear their uniforms as they would if their parents were not around."[51] Columbus considered costume changes "a reflection of character development Within the books themselves” and her transition to adolescence.
While the characters in the first two films constantly wear their uniforms, the characters in Prisoner of Azkaban often wear modern street clothes. Rowling, who was consulted on the change, stated, "For me, gowns and everything make sense for academic time but for personal time they would wear their own clothes."
Janie Timim joined the film as a costume designer, after all. Working on all the next installments in the series.
For Remus Lupine, Timmim chose "the typical tweed of England." Cuaron stated that the character had to look like "an uncle who parties hard on the weekends", so Timim kept his robes "unkempt and shabbier than the other teachers' robes".
For Trelawney, Thompson drew costume and costume sketches. Send them to Timim and Cuarón. Thompson saw the character as "someone who hasn't looked in the mirror for a long time.
" In order to highlight the character's shortsightedness, Timim used material filled with mirrors and eyes, as well as oversized glasses with magnifying lenses.[51] Cuarón wanted Dumbledore to look like "an old hippie, but still very stylish and with a lot of sophistication
." Timm used dyed silk that floated behind him as he walked, which she considered a "much lighter look" that gave the character more energy, in contrast to the "heavy and imposing" costumes designed for Harris' portrayal of Dumbledore. ]
Hogwarts model on the Making of Harry Potter tour in London.
Cuarón's main interest was for Hogwarts to have a broader scope and be rooted in the real world.
The scale model of the Hogwarts exterior designed for the first film was expanded by approximately 40% for the Prisoner of Azkaban. Production designer Stuart Craig and art director Gary Tomkins added structures including a clock tower and courtyard,[54] and the hospital wing was redesigned and rebuilt.
Other sets created for the film included Hogsmeade Village and The Three Broomsticks public house.
The use of real-life locations dramatically changed the appearance of Hagrid's hut. To the Prisoner of Azkaban, the landscape surrounding the group changed from being completely flat to being hillside.
The cottage has doubled in size, with a separate bedroom built in the back and the addition of a large pumpkin patch and chimney. Craig cited Shrieking Shack as a particularly difficult set to create. Built on a large hydraulic platform with the help of the special effects department, it
"creaks and moves as if it were constantly being blown by the wind" in order to appear almost alive.
Some sets were reused from previous films or were used for more than one space. The Defense Against the Dark Arts and Divination classes are depicted in the same set. The Honeydukes set was a correction to the Flourish & Blotts set seen in Chamber of Secrets, which in turn was a correction from the Ollivanders set from the first film
The third film was the first to make extensive use of real-life locations, as most of the first two films were filmed in a studio.
Three sets were built for the film in Glen Coe, Scotland, near the Clachaig Inn. Harry's ride on a Buckbeak over Lake Hogwarts was filmed at the Virginia Water Lake in Surrey.
The Black Loch has also been photographed from Loch Shiel, Loch Eylt, and Loch Morar in the Scottish Highlands.
Incidentally, the Glenfinnan Viaduct Railway, which also featured in Chamber of Secrets, is located off Loch Shiel and was used to film the sequences when the Dementors board the train. A small part of the Knight Bus scene, in which it weaves through traffic, was filmed in Palmer's Green, north London.
Some parts were also filmed in and around Borough Market and Lambeth Bridge in London.
Director of photography Michael Seresin considered the story to be darker than the previous two, so he used "moody [lighting], with more shadows"
. He used a variety of wide-angle lenses to exaggerate the prominence of Hogwarts in the story, and only used close-ups sparingly. “We prefer to observe the children from a distance, as I find their body language very interesting,” Cuaron explained.
Rowling allowed Cuaron to make minor changes to the book, on the condition that he adhere to the spirit of the book.[47] She allowed him to place a sundial on the Hogwarts grounds, but refused the cemetery,
as that would play an important role in the as-yet-unpublished sixth book.[47] Rowling said she "got goosebumps" when she saw several moments in the film, where they inadvertently referenced events in the last two books.
She said, "People will look back at the film and think those moments were intentionally placed as evidence."[48] When filming wrapped, Cuaron discovered that they "were the two best years of my life", and expressed interest in directing one of the sequels.
The Knight Bus sequence was filmed over several weeks in various locations in London. In order to give the impression that the car was moving at 100 mph (161 km/h), stunt coordinator Greg Powell explained,
"We drove the bus at about 30 mph [48 km/h] and the other cars were parked." It took weeks of planning with dangerous drivers, and even the people you see on the street are terrifying men and women, trained to walk very slowly just to make the bus appear faster.
The Prisoner of Azkaban was, at the time of publication, the longest book in the series.
The increasing complexity of the plot necessitated a more flexible adaptation of the book's precise plot lines and back story. The connection between Harry's father and the Marauders' Map is only mentioned briefly,[66] as is Remus Lupine's connection to the Map
.[67] Additionally, it is not mentioned who the thieves are or who the nicknames Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs refer to. Some performances were removed for dramatic effect: both the Shrieking Shack and Scabbers the Mouse are only mentioned briefly in the film,
while they receive more extensive coverage in the novel. Most of Sirius Black's back story was also cut, with no mention of how he escaped Azkaban.
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Considering pacing and time, the film highlights detailed descriptions of magical education
. Only one Hippogriff, Buckbeak, is ever seen, and only Draco Malfoy and Harry are seen interacting with the Hippogriff during Care of Magical Creatures classes. [68] Most of the other lessons, including all of Snape's potions lessons, were omitted from the film.
The complex description of the Fidelius Charm was completely removed from the film, with no explanation given exactly as to how Sirius betrayed the Potters to Lord Voldemort. Many of the lines of this scene were redistributed between Cornelius Fudge and Minerva McGonagall. As compensation, McGonagall's offer of the Animagus transformation is made instead by Snape.
The romantic relationship between Ron and Hermione is more prominent in the film than in the book.
In response to criticism of the first two films for sacrificing character development for mystery and adventure, more attention was paid to the emotional development of all three main characters in the third film
. However, any reference to Harry's crush on Cho Chang was removed,[70] and she first appeared in the fourth film.[71] Prisoner of Azkaban also shows a darker tone and more of Harry's emotions. For example, after learning of Black's "betrayal" of Harry's parents, he angrily shouts "I'm going to kill him",[72] whereas in the book he is "so distraught that he cannot move".[66]
In the book, Gryffindor wins the Quidditch Cup for the first time in the series, a fairly important subplot in the character's development that was almost entirely omitted from the film
Only the first Quidditch match of the school year (in which Harry's 2000 Nimbus wand is destroyed) is part of the film's narrative, and there are no other references to the sport or the Gryffindor team's successful campaign for the Cup throughout the rest of the film.
The final scene before the credits shows Harry on his new broom, the Firebolt, as a known gift from Sirius after helping him escape captivity, while in the book, the new broom is an anonymous mid-year gift from Sirius (without Harry or anyone else's knowledge).
Last at the time is examined by the Hogwarts staff for safety and security reasons before it is eventually given to Harry for use in his quest for the Cup.
