Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a British-American fantasy film by director David Yates from 2007 and at the same time the film adaptation of the eponymous fifth part of the Harry Potter series of novels by English author Joanne K. Rowling from 2003. The film started in Germany on July 11, 2007.
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As every year, sorcerer's apprentice Harry Potter spends the summer holidays with his obnoxious relatives, the Dursleys . Shortly before school starts, two Dementors attack Harry and his cousin Dudley. Harry uses a Patronus spell to ward off the Dementors. The Hogwarts Ministry of Magic refers him to the use of wizardry outside of school . The following night, members of the so-called Order of the Phoenix pick Harry up from the Dursley's house and take him to their headquarters. There he learns that he has to go to the Ministry of Magic for a hearing. There Dumbledore can prove with the help of a Squib as a witness that Harry acted in self-defense. The Wizengamot acquits Harry of the allegations and removes the reprimand.
The Order of the Phoenix is already several years existing organization that Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore had established to Lord Voldemort organized his followers to fight. The same covenant was re-established after Harry witnessed Voldemort's return the previous school year. According to the Ministry of Magic, the assumption that Lord Voldemort is back is based only on what Harry said. The Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge therefore strictly refuses to believe its story. He's putting pressure on the press to portray Harry and Headmaster Dumbledore as liars, which is widely popular in the magical world. In the new school year, Harry and Dumbledore are confronted with the disbelief and hostility of former supporters or even friends.
Fudge, suffering from an increasing paranoia, believes that Dumbledore's fear of Voldemort is really only trying to gain influence and dispute his office as minister. In order to gain control of Hogwarts, he continues his First Undersecretary Dolores Umbridge as a teacher for the subject of Defense Against the Dark Arts a. This tries by all means to drive Harry out of his "fairy tales" and terrorizes him and the entire student body during the school year. She is also keen to keep her students away from practically applied magic. Umbridge gains power over time, until she finally takes over the post of Headmistress. Harry counteracts Umbridge's plans by founding a secret society called "Dumbledore's Army" in which he teaches his classmates defensive spells. After a few months, however, Umbridge manages to track down Dumbledore's army in their secret training room with the help of the caretaker and some students from the Slytherin House .
As the school year progressed, Harry was plagued by dreams that put him in the Department of Mysteries at the Ministry of Magic. In one of these dreams, Harry sees Arthur Weasley, Ron's father, being attacked. Mr. Weasley is saved just in time. Dumbledore fears Voldemort could take advantage of this connection as soon as he becomes aware of it. So he asks Professor Snape to teach Harry how to protect his mind from such attacks. During one of these lessons, Harry learns that Snape's hatred of Harry is based on the fact that James Potter had bullied him throughout their school days.
At the end of the film, Harry has another dream: Voldemort has kidnapped his godfather Sirius Black and wants to force him to get a gun for him, but Sirius resists him. After watching Voldemort torture Sirius, he decides to save Sirius. For this, Harry and his friends Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood invade the Department of Mysteries of the Ministry of Magic, where they have to fight several Death Eaters . On behalf of Voldemort, the Death Eaters are looking for a magical sphere that contains a mysterious prophecy and is located in the rooms of the Ministry of Magic. This prophecy says that Harry Potter will be the chosen one to kill Lord Voldemort because "neither can live while the other survives". Only when the members of the Order of the Phoenix come to their aid can most Death Eaters be overwhelmed. However, Harry's godfather Sirius Black is killed by Bellatrix Lestrange . Lord Voldemort is also present in person and engages in a fight with his archenemy Dumbledore. However, after a failed attempt to take possession of Harry's body, the Dark Lord must retreat and Disapparate .
After these events, Minister Fudge is now forced to admit his mistake and publicly announce the return of Voldemort.
synchronization
The German dubbing was done at FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron in Munich and Berlin . Frank Schaff wrote the dialogue book .
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Reviews
“Atmospherically dense, richly equipped fantasy adaptation that knows how to stage its fictional world in a spectacular and sensual way. The main character's self-doubts and the confrontation with death make for thoughtful, dark tones. "
“The fast-paced story keeps captivating with breathtaking images. […] What is annoying, however, is that director David Yates hardly gives top actors like Alan Rickman or Emma Thompson any room to develop. Even the young stars Emma Watson and Rupert Grint are degenerating into key words for Daniel Radcliffe. He in turn masters his role impressively. [...] Harry's fifth adventure is a veritable fantasy thriller with horror elements - and not for children. "
backgrounds
- The production of the film with a budget of about 150 million US dollars started in August 2005 and ended in June 2007 with the post-production. Filming began on February 6, 2006 in various locations in Scotland and England and ended on December 12, 2006. The film is a co-production by Warner Bros. and Heyday Films distributed by Warner Bros. Deutschland GmbH .
- Bellatrix Lestrange , played by Helena Bonham Carter, is introduced as a new character . Otherwise, most of the characters appearing in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire are back in the fifth Potter film. Other newcomers are Evanna Lynch as Luna Lovegood , Natalia Tena as Nymphadora Tonks and Imelda Staunton as Dolores Umbridge .
- In this film, too, the film music does not come from the original composer John Williams , but this task was assigned to the still relatively unknown British television film music composer Nicholas Hooper. Only the original title music by Williams is still used in the film.
- This time the directing work was done by the 43-year-old British television director and screenwriter David Yates , who had made a name for himself in Great Britain with television series and films. He had never had any experience with Hollywood big budget productions like this. Yates also directed the follow-up films Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 .
- The script was written by Michael Goldenberg , co-writer of the film Contact with Jodie Foster from 1997. The special effects were realized by Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) among others . For the first time, a choreographer was hired for a Harry Potter film adaptation with Paul Haris , who developed the "language and grammar" of the magic wand fight.
- The cinemas CineStar and Imax in Berlin showed the film on the largest cinema format in the world. The last 20 minutes, the showdown between Lord Voldemort and Harry Potter, were converted into 3D using the Imax DMR process .
Differences to the novel
- Harry does not find out that Arabella Figg is a Squib (a person who has at least one magical parent, but whose wizard gene is recessive and consequently cannot perform magic).
- In the novel, the Dursleys receive five letters: two from the Ministry of Magic summoning Harry to his hearing, one from Arthur Weasley, one from Sirius, and a howl to Aunt Petunia (who, as is revealed at the end, came from Dumbledore). In the film, only one letter arrives from the ministry, which is a howler.
- Harry's escort to the Order's headquarters takes place on the first day of the action in the film, Harry is not extensively camouflaged, and the Order members fly much lower (so muggles can see them!). In addition, Harry can only see the house protected by the Fidelius spell in the book after a note is shown to him; in the film, Moody brings it up with his cane.
- In the film, Harry only learns about the hearing at the Ministry through the Order members instead of through the letters as in the book; but he learns much earlier that the entire Wizengamot will sit in judgment on him.
- The clean-up actions in Grimmauldplatz No. 12, during which they unknowingly u. A. Finding one of Voldemort's Horcruxes does not appear in the film and is also not mentioned.
- Umbridge's sanctions against Harry are presented less drastically in the film (although the bleeding pen is used). In the novel, he has to stay with her for a total of three weeks, is no longer allowed to go to Hogsmeade and is banned from Quidditch together with Fred and George. Instead, there are a lot more ministry decrees in the film.
- The crook Willy Widdershins, who overhears the first DA meeting and betrays them to Umbridge, does not appear. In the film you only see Umbridge and Argus Filch watching (and eavesdropping?) On Harry and his friends.
- In the book, Dobby tells Harry about the Room of Requirement and how it works. In the film, Neville finds the room by chance, and Hermione (who doesn't know anything about it in the book) explains how it works.
- Umbridge's espionage and her interrogation of the students with Veritaserum appear only in the film.
- The visits to St. Mungo's Hospital, where the main characters also happen to meet Broderick Bode and Neville, his grandmother and parents, are omitted from the film.
- Harry has more than two visions of Voldemort in the novel, on the basis of which he finds out, among other things, that Voldemort has already harnessed Bode and Sturgis Podmore for his purposes in vain. Harry's arguments with Snape about it are gone, as is Bode's murder in the hospital.
- In the novel, Harry gives Rita Skeeter and Luna an interview for the quibbler about Voldemort's return on Valentine's Day, with which he can convince many members of the magical community. There is no interview in the film.
- In the film, all DA members are caught in the Room of Desires by Umbridge and the Inquisition Command without warning. In the book they are warned by Dobby in time and can escape except for Harry.
- Harry's relationship with Cho breaks up in the book because Cho's best friend Marietta Edgecombe has deliberately betrayed the DA to Umbridge and they fall out over Marietta. In the film, Cho was put under Veritaserum by Umbridge and therefore betrayed the DA, which begs the question of why she and Harry don't reconcile after Harry finds out.
- In the book, Harry is interrogated by Umbridge the day after Dumbledore's escape, and learns that Umbridge's fireplace is the only one at Hogwarts that is unguarded by the Ministry. This doesn't happen in the film, but Harry knows that Umbridge's fireplace is unguarded.
- Fred and George's fireworks take place on Umbridge's first day as headmistress, while on the day they escape Hogwarts, they turn a corridor into a swamp. Their further resistance actions against Umbridge, such as that they z. For example, sending the Slytherin Montague away with a cabinet of disappearances (which is very beneficial to Draco in the following volume), the film omits.
- Harry doesn't see in Snape's memory (which he sees in the book in Snape's Pensieve instead of in his head) how his parents argue and that Snape calls Lilly "Mudblood".
- Since Fred and George's escape takes place on the same day as the film's finale, there is no resistance from the other students (led by Peeves, the Poltergeist ) against Umbridge, Filch and the Inquisition Squad.
- In the book, before Umbrigde shows up, Harry manages to send his head to Grimmauld Place by floo powder, where Kreacher tells him that Sirius is actually in the Department of Mysteries, which finally convinces Harry.
- Harry does not learn that it was Umbridge who, without Fudge's knowledge, set the Dementors on him.
- In the novel, the centaurs have already abducted Umbridge and after a brief thought they also want to practice vigilante justice on Harry and Hermione when Grawp appears and drives away the centaurs. In the film, Grawp accidentally incapacitates Umbridge, the centaurs take Umbridge with them, leaving Harry and Hermione unmolested.
- The Department of Mysteries in the film apparently only consists of the Hall of Prophecies and the Death Chamber. While in the novel all DA members except Harry and Neville are incapacitated before the arrival of the order members, all but Harry are taken hostage by the Death Eaters. Harry doesn't come out with the prophecy willingly. The destruction of the prophecy is a little different in the film.
- In the film, Bellatrix kills Sirius from an ambush by Avada Kedavra. In the book, she catches him in a duel with a red spell (stupor? Expelliarmus?) And he falls through the archway, which makes more conclusive why Lupine is holding Harry afterwards.
- Harry is portkeyed to Dumbledore's office immediately after the fight against Voldemort. There he later learns the content of the prophecy from Dumbledore (in the film he already learned this in the Department of Mysteries) as well as that a spy Voldemort only listened to the beginning of the prophecy, whereby Voldemort made the second part of the prophecy come true by attacking Harry. Also, Harry does not learn that Kreacher went to Narcissa Malfoy after Sirius' "disappeared" during the Christmas vacation and later received the order from her to lure Sirius out of the kitchen and lie to Harry. Harry also doesn't find out that he has to go to the Dursleys every summer because Dumbledore has extended his mother's victim protection to the place where Lilly's blood relatives live and Harry has to call this place home in order for it to work.
- The two-way mirror that Harry receives from Sirius for Christmas does not appear, although it plays an important role in the seventh part.
Financial success
On launch day, the film grossed $ 44.2 million in the United States alone. In total, the box office earnings are 938.2 million US dollars worldwide, of which just under 292 million are in North America. Currently, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix at No. 58 (Updated: August 8, 2020) the list of successful films and after Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 and Part 2 of the most successful Harry Potter film.
The soundtrack CD entered the German album charts at number 44 , but fell out of the top 50 again after a week.
Awards
- 2007
- Nomination for an MTV Movie Award in the category "Best Summer Movie You Haven't Seen Yet"
- Bogey in platinum for five million moviegoers within 50 days
- 2008
- DIVA Award : The German Cinema Award and The German Video Award (audience awards)
- People's Choice Award : "Best Film Drama"
- European Film Award : Audience Award
The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) awarded the film the title “particularly valuable”.
Movie attendance numbers
| country | Visitors 2007 |
|---|---|
| United States | 42,442,549 |
| Great Britain | 9,788,758 |
| Germany | 7,076,615 |
| France | 6.224.517 |
| Spain | 3,204,686 |
| Italy | 3,203,145 |
| Netherlands | 1,322,163 |
| Poland | 1,129,621 |
| Sweden | 731.714 |
| Turkey | 687.184 |
| Czech Republic | 686.905 |
| Denmark | 645.415 |
| Austria | 632.941 |
| Hungary | 609,802 |
| Switzerland | 515,437 |
literature
- Joanne K. Rowling : Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix . Carlsen, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-551-55555-7 .
Audio book
- Joanne K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , read by Rufus Beck, Dhv Der HörVerlag February 19, 2004, ISBN 978-3-89940-172-1 .
- Joanne K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , read by Felix von Manteuffel, Dhv Der HörVerlag March 12, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86717-382-7 .
Web links
- Official website for the film
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in the online movie database
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Comparison of the cut versions Pro7 afternoon - FSK 12 of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Approval for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2007 (PDF; test number: 110 411 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b c Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on October 23, 2014 .
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ; Cinema review
- ↑ Top Lifetime big things. Box Office Mojo, accessed August 8, 2020 .
- ↑ HP on Boxoffice Mojo