Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: 10 facts you didn't know about the films
 

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: 10 facts you didn't know about the films

By Livy Watson 5:23PM BST 24 Sep 2010 - The Telegraph, UK

The seventh (and penultimate) film is said to have ?a very different feel from the other movies? as for the first time the action does not centre around Hogwarts.

Harry, Ron and Hermione are on the run, thrust into what Ron (Rupert Grint) calls ?a scary and unpredictable world where anyone could be working for Voldemort? as they search for the remaining horcruxes in order to defeat the Dark Lord.

To whet your appetite we?ve conjured up some truly wizard facts about ?Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows?:

? The film?s budget is estimated to have been ?150 million. John Hurt (Mr Ollivander in the films) ranted recently about the ?quite absurd? amount of money spent on ?Harry Potter? films. He said: ?I look around and there are three costumes there, none of which are likely to be worn, and they?re all replicas of each other. It?s a vacuous waste of money and it drives me insane.?

? The two ?Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows? films are the first in the ?Harry Potter? series to be released in cinemas in complete 3D versions. For ?Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix? and ?Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince? only some scenes were available.

? Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double David Holmes was seriously injured in January 2009 when he fell from a harness. The former gymnast was at Leavesden film studios (Watford, Herts) rehearsing a flying scene that involved an explosion when the accident occurred.

? And it wasn?t only his double sustaining injuries - Radcliffe himself got a war wound. During filming, a giant snake that Harry was fighting was simulated by a stick with a boxing glove on the end, held by the stunt coordinator. Radcliffe was caught by surprise and received a blow in the face that knocked him down, but seems thrilled with his injury. In a recent interview he said: ?Until now nothing really bad happened to me, only a few scratches. But I'm happy because I finally got a big black eye during the shooting of ?Deathly Hallows?.?

? It was all drama at Leavesden as in March 2009, soon after Holmes? injury, a fire started on set. The fire started during the filming of ?a big special effects scene? and took 40 minutes to extinguish but caused no injuries. Apparently there was no damage to the studios and the actual set was ?due to be rebuilt anyway? for a new battle scene in ?Deathly Hallows? Part 2.

? Following the enthusiastic reception of his birthday suit in ?Equus?, Radcliffe will apparently be delighting female fans again by appearing naked in the new film. When a horcrux forces Ron to imagine his worst fears, playing on his insecurities, one of the images he sees is Harry and Hermione kissing and embracing. ?Deathly Hallows? Director David Yates has supposedly confirmed that at this point Harry will be nude, and that he bares all a second time at the Kings Cross scene later in the film.

? Rhys Ifans is thrilled ?that they thought of me to play a cross-eyed wizard? (Xenophilus Lovegood, Luna Lovegood?s father) and honoured to act alongside big name actors like Maggie Smith and Michael Gambon but admits that he hasn?t read ?The Deathly Hallows? book and is ?not a big fan of Harry Potter?!

? In the first film, Griphook the goblin was played by Verne Troyer, one of the few Americans in the cast, but voiced by Warwick Davis (Professor Flitwick). In ?Deathly Hallows? Davis is both Griphook?s body and his voice, whilst continuing to play Flitwick,

? ?Deathly Hallows? is the first time Brendan Gleeson and David O?Hara have acted in the same film since ?Braveheart? in 1995. Gleeson plays ?Mad-Eye? Moody and O?Hara plays Albert Runcorn ? the Ministry of Magic official who Harry impersonates with Polyjuice Potion in order to enter the Ministry.

? Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy) considered not returning for this film as he feared he would have little or no time on screen, after his character was imprisoned at the end of the fifth book, but on meeting J.K. Rowling and begging to be released from prison, she told him ?You?re out. Chapter One.? and he signed on for ?Deathly Hallows?.

? J.K Rowling told Alan Rickman the reasoning behind Severus Snape?s strange behaviour towards Harry years before it was disclosed in the ?Deathly Hallows? book. Snape?s love for Lily Potter (n?e Evans), Harry?s mother, is the reason he both detests and wants to protect ?the boy who lived?, and Rowling claims ?He needed to understand, I think, and does completely understand and did completely understand where this bitterness towards this boy, who's living proof of [Lily's] preference for another man, came from.?

? In the epilogue in ?Deathly Hallows? Part 2 the cast play their characters in the future, using a combination of prosthetics, computer generated imagery and convincing acting, as in ?The Curious Case of Benjamin Button?. In this epilogue the wife of Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton), Astoria Greengrass, is played by his real life girlfriend Jade Olivia.

This thread should have been titled "A bunch of crap I don't care aboot".

Maybe so, but I'm also posting a copy of the first 36 minutes of the new movie.

They are openeing a new Imax not to far from me @12:05am on the 19th just in time for Harry Potter. Our Family has tickets for the 11Am showing on Sat @ the Imax.

I'll rep you for that one when the system gets fixed.

Little bit out of date there. The first part's 3D conversion was shelved in October as they couldn't finish it in time

Stantz..... The article came from today's Telegraph. That your paper on your side of the pond. Around here in the US, they are pushing the iMAx, I guess to defuse the fact that they aren't going to have Part 1 in 3D. Thanks for the heads up.

Thing about most of the papers in the country is that they know jack. Especially the broadsheets when it comes to pop culture. They'll cut and paste anything with a currently popular headline without doing any real research.

Big rumour is that they're putting 100% into the Part 2 conversion, and once that's finished, they'll go back and finish part 1, for a re-release just before the final part is released

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The 'Harry Potter' phenomenon: 7 surprising facts
 

1. Warner Bros. panicked when it almost lost its Hermione
In 2006, when Emma Watson's contract was up, Warner Bros. nearly had to find another actress to play Hermione Granger in The Order of the Phoenix. The filming schedule conflicted with Watson's final high school exams, which would have meant putting off college, "and I just wasn't prepared to let it go," Watson told MTV News. Warner Bros. rescheduled the shoot around Watson's school schedule, and she finished her tests, started at Brown University, and finished off the Harry Potter movies. "I would have been public enemy No. 1, I think, if I hadn't continued," she says.

2. Harry Potter gravestone is a tourist draw ? in Israel
The "backwater Israeli town" of Ramle is happy that Harry Potter, a British soldier who died there in 1939, is buried in the local British military cemetery. Pvt. Potter was killed in battle at age 18, and sure, "there is no connection with the Harry Potter we know from literature, but the name sells, the name is marketable," says local tour guide Ron Peled. Ramle started promoting the tombstone at the beginning of the year, and Israeli tourists have responded in flocks.

3. There's an active (sometimes illegal) market in rare Harry Potter books
An unidentified man and woman stole a limited edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first book in the series, from an art gallery in Oxfordshire, England. A first trade-edition of the same book sold for $40,000 at a Christie's auction in October. And an anonymous bidder paid about $4 million for one of seven handwritten copies of Rowling's post-Potter, unpublished Tales of Beedle the Bard, with five "wizarding fairytales" that tie into Potter's last adventure.

4. Real schools have taken a page from Hogwarts' "houses"
After Harry Potter became an instant hit in 1997, real British schools took note of Rowling's fictional Hogwarts academy, specifically its division into four "houses": Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. A survey by school-rewards company School Stickers found that 58 percent of U.K. schools now have Hogwarts-like "houses," and that 59 percent of those ? some 8,000 schools ? set them up after Harry Potter was published. A third of teachers believe that their school's houses have distinctive characteristics, but most are named after colors, not famous wizard alumni.

5. Michael Jackson pitched a musical version of Potter, and was shot down
Rowling has received, and rejected, lots of offers for Harry Potter tie-ins, the author told Oprah Winfrey, noting that the rampant merchandising of the series "could be so much worse." Michael Jackson, she explained, approached her to make a musical from the Potter series. "I said no to a lot of things," Rowling said, and that was one.

6. Spielberg almost directed the Potter movies ? in Pixar-style animation
Before picking Chris Columbus to direct the the first of the Harry Potter films, Warner Bros. approached Steven Spielberg. Spielberg was game, says Warner Bros. president Alan Horn, but he wanted to consolidate some of the books' plots and make the movies as Pixar-style animated features. I didn't blame him, says Horns. "Because of the wizardry involved," any live-action version was inevitably going to be very effects-laden.

7. No more Potter books? Blame Daniel Radcliffe
In the Oprah interview, Rowling said she "definitely could write an eighth, ninth, tenth book." But she's opted not to, according to actor Daniel Radcliffe, as a way to "reward" him for his fine portrayal of Harry Potter. "I'm sure she will be writing other books," he added. "But I can pretty much guarantee that Harry will not be a feature."

One of the original concepts that Spielberg pitched was to move the entire thing to America, condense it down to 3 movies, and have Haley Joel Osment in the lead role. Obviously, JK told him to get fucked, and with good reason. I mean, Haley Joel Osment?

I don't think Harry Potter would have been believable if it had been set anywhere else but in Europe. The only thing that has ever bothered me about the series is why aren't their any American Wizards or Witches. Do all backdrops have to revolve around Medieval Castles and Fortresses? Do we romanticize so much about the Dark Ages that no other additional setting is possible? Or is there so much anti-American sentiment that no one wants Americans capable of Magic?

holy fuck, you people take this seriously.

Harry Pot what??

What can I say? I don't have much of a life anymore. :(

there are better books/worlds

I guess it depends on a person's individual taste. I like Wizardry and the Occult.

no, it only depends on mine. i am always right.












ive read them all too :)

Actually, I didn't start reading them until book 5. I usually prefer to most historical text books and encyclopedias. One of the few habits I inherited from my father.

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Boy, pieceofshit, for someone who doesn't like this thread, you keep checking it out and seem to be spend an awful lot of time searching the web for gay things.

Really, that's the best you can do? Pieceofshit? Try harder. That is disturbingly Boozer-like.

I'm a colossal HP geek, but I wasn't 100% overawed with the movie. 98% maybe, but that's probably me being picky.

It's left me feeling confused, to be honest. I love the book, I'm just finishing reading it for probably the 8th time, so I know the plot and timings pretty well, so when things are added, changed, or just left out it stood out like a sore thumb. I appreciate that even though they've split the book in two, they've still got to cram a lot into two and a half hours. So they take out Percy & Dean, throw in a little dance scene, and put Dobby in too early because the previous movies omitted him completely and his part needed padding out for emotional impact when he... you know. These things jar, and detracted slightly from my enjoyment of what is the most faithful adaptation to date. It even opens with a complete waste of casting. Seeing the back of Dudley's head as they leave makes you wonder why they even left the Dursleys in after the first movie.

Now the nice stuff. The main 3 have finally matured into competant actors. Holding the movie together when before they seemed to be carried along for the ride, and about time. Emma especially. Her scene with Helena as Bellatrix and the opening scene with her parents have finally shown she's actually capable of showing emotion without resorting to eyebrow gymnastics. Rupert is a miserable sod in this, and he's bloody good at it. dan's intonation can be off, but when you see him in interviews he's like that anyway.

Every scene is pretty much as it should be. the Ministry sequence works well, and the scene where Ron destroys the locket is completely nailed, but they did actually miss one tiny plot element that may come back to bite them in the arse come part 2 and getting into the chamber of secrets, but perhaps I'm reading to much into the written word again. The little dance bit actually worked quite well, which I wasn't expecting.

I'll end this by talking house-elves. Kreacher, for starters, is fantastically realised, even in close-up he's practically flawless, however the omission of his tale about his trip to the underground cave with Voldemort was conspicuous by its abscence, but in retrospect, it would have been more wasted time. In the novel it serves to humanise Kreacker, as they stay at Grimmauld place for a few more weeks, but here they leave not long after.


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Now Dobby, I feel sorry for. He's been instrumental in most of harry's life at Hogwarts since his second year. he gave Harry the gillyweed for the lake task in GoF. He alerted the DA to the approaching umbridge in OotP. Hoever, if you've only seen the movies, the it's a case of.. who? His demise in the book held more gravitas as he was entrenched in Harry's life for the last 6 years. in the movie, the last time we saw him was stunning Lucious, then 5 years later he's hanging on the legs of Mundungus Fletcher for no reason, other then to remind everyone he exists, so we might feel a little sorrier for him at the end of the movie. As Annie told me earlier, she cried while reading the whole death/Burial scene (I merely had something in my eye) but the movie's version of events just didn't do anything emotionally, and I'd agree.

So, good effort, could have been better, but it's not this movie's fault. For it to have been a faithful translation of the written material, the previous 6 films would have had to have been as well, not cutting stupid corners to save time & not adding stupid scenes that have no bearing on the plot (HP6 - burrow attack - all I'm saying).

8.5/10

Thanks for the review Stantz, I've been hearing about the same review #'s locally.

Personally, I'm waiting for Part 2 to see how they handle the Wesley death. and Neville with the sword. I heard the love scene between Hermione and Harry had Ron seeing red.

can we make this thread more interesting for those who aren't into HP?

Well, then we have to do something for the ladies too.

Matthew Lewis had some sword training for the last movie, so hopefully it'll be a bit better than just a swish. He's losing the fatsuit, ear-mounts and false teeth for the last part, so he'll be more or less unrecognisable

So I've read this entire thread and came to a few questions.

1. Why the fuck is there a Harry Potter thread on DSF? Were not a bunch of D&D fags on the DSF, were all 4chan rejects.

2. Why the fuck do we care about these 10 facts we didn't know? I didn't know them before and I'm not going to sleep any better tonight because i read them, or the 7 after that.

3. Why does the female in these book/movies never get naked, and why does she look like a fucking a fucking boy? Don't you think that new young hot female Justin Bieber would have been a better pick?

4. Why the fuck did I waste my time reading this thread in the first place? All if did was reassure me that I'm going to be 100% better in life not ever picking up one of these so called novels, and never seeing any of the movies.

Beer gets me awake with the Emma pics and you retaliate with cock pics, holy fuck has this thread got they ghey or what?!

Mmmm. Cock.

1. because there's more to life than dead babies, cranial explosions, star wars and lego. Plus you missed an apostrophe

2. You don't have to care, but you cared enough to click on the thread. Bless you for that

3. She DOES get naked in this flick, plus there's cleavage all over the fucking shop. there's be even more once she gets dressed up as bellatrix in part 2. Bieber sucks monkey pole in hell

4. Only you can answer that. You saw the words Harry Potter and felt compelled to click. Wether or not you were hoping for 3 year old pics of Emma Watson's pubic hair or 2 year old pics of Radcliffe's peen is completely down to you

but thanks for your time

It's spelled whether.

but thanks for your time

United Kingdom dahling, we spell it both ways

We do?

You do know Max is Scottish yes?