I watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix last night and I was a little disappointed. I suppose it’s a good movie, but if you read the book, it falls short. There are so many details that were lost to people who have not read the book. There’s a lot of things that these people missed in the movie, especially the humour! The most disappointing part for me was that they made the scenes in the Department of Mysteries so short. In the book this last quite long. Harry and his friends get separated and lost in all kinds of interesting places. I would especially have liked to see a movie version of the sucking brains. I was shocked that they made Cho the snitch even if she was given veritaserum. They also left out Harry and Cho’s disasterous date! And why didn’t Grawp say “Hermy”?!
What I did like was the fight between Dumbledore and Voldemort in the Ministry of Magic. It was done well. Fred and George’s fireworks exit was also good, although I did miss all the things that happened before that in the book. For tose who haven’t read it, they turn the halls into a swamp; there are fireworks all over the school and they keep multiplying; Peeves goes crazy at the twins’ request and the best of all, none of the teachers lift a finger to restore order to Hogwarts!! I think at some point McGonagall even encourages Peeves to throw something at Umbridge. I have to admit, Umbridge was well played. She was just as annoying and infuriating as in the book, although she was much uglier in my imagination. The DA practices was also done well and Rupert once again played Ron brilliantly!
I realise it’s a movie and everything in the book cannot be put into two hours of film, but some things should not be left out. In Prisoner of Azkaban George and Fred gives Harry the Marauder’s map, but the story of the map is never told. The four names on the map, Padfoot,Prongs, Mooney and Wormtail, actually refers to Sirius, James, Lupin and Peter. They made the map when they were at school and Filch confiscated it, but the Weasley twins relieved him of it. I really thought this could be put in there somewhere.
Well, I could go on and on, and maybe I will later, but right now I need to go be a good honours student and do some work!
Dancing Through Life 