Thursday, August 13, 2015

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)


"The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. Enemies of the heir... beware!"


Directed by Chris Columbus
Produced by David Heyman
Screenplay by Steve Kloves
Based on "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson
Music by John Williams
Cinematography: Roger Pratt
Edited by Peter Honess
Production companies: Heyday Films, 1492 Pictures
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date: 15 November 2002 (United Kingdom)
Running time: 161 minutes
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Budget: $100 million
Box office: $879 million


"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" is a fantasy adventure film directed by Chris Columbus and based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. It's the second instalment in the "Harry Potter" film series which follows Harry Potter's second year at Hogwarts as the Heir of Salazar Slytherin opens the Chamber of Secrets, unleashing a monster that petrifies the school's denizens.


Cast
  • Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter
  • Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley
  • Emma Watson as Hermione Granger
  • Kenneth Branagh as Gilderoy Lockhart
  • John Cleese as Nearly Headless Nick
  • Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid
  • Warwick Davis as Filius Flitwick
  • Richard Griffiths as Vernon Dursley
  • Richard Harris as Albus Dumbledore
  • Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy
  • Alan Rickman as Severus Snape
  • Fiona Shaw as Petunia Dursley
  • Maggie Smith as Minerva McGonagall
  • Julie Walters as Molly Weasley


The second part of "Harry Potter" film series turned out more exciting, in my opinion: a viewer had been already acquainted with characters therefore the main attention was drawn to events and the world of Hogwarts. And yes, it was pretty interesting to see Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as children.


Advantages
  • Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter
  • Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley
  • Emma Watson as Hermione Granger
  • Music
  • The story
  • Dark and mystic
  • Magic
  • Basilisk

Disadvantages
  • A little bit too long

"Strangenesses"
  • When magic was normal?

Clue Moments
  • Spiders
  • The book
  • Tom Marvolo Riddle's secret


Soundtracks
  1. John Williams - Prologue Book II And The Escape From The Dursleys
  2. John Williams - Fawkes The Phoenix
  3. John Williams - The Chamber Of Secrets
  4. John Williams - Gilderoy Lockhart
  5. John Williams - The Flying Car
  6. John Williams - Knockturn Alley
  7. John Williams - Introducing Colin
  8. John Williams - The Dueling Club
  9. John Williams - Dobby The House Elf
  10. John Williams - The Spiders
  11. John Williams - Moaning Myrtle
  12. John Williams - Meeting Aragog
  13. John Williams - Fawkes Is Reborn
  14. John Williams - Meeting Tom Riddle
  15. John Williams - Cornish Pixies
  16. John Williams - Polyjuice Potion
  17. John Williams - Cakes For Crabbe And Goyle
  18. John Williams - Dueling The Basilisk
  19. John Williams - Reunion Of Friends
  20. John Williams - Harry's Wondrous World


Quotations
* * *
Dumbledore: It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.
* * *
Dobby: Dobby is... free.
* * *
Harry: Not to be rude or anything, but this isn't a great time for me to have a house elf in my bedroom.
* * *
Ron: If it kills by looking people in the eye, why is it no one's dead?
Harry: Because no one did look it in the eye. Not directly, at least. Colin saw it through his camera. Justin... Justin must've seen the basilisk through Nearly Headless Nick. Nick got the full blast of it, but he's a ghost; he couldn't die again. And Hermione... had the mirror! I bet you anything she was using it to look around corners in case it came along.
Ron: And Mrs. Norris? I'm pretty sure she didn't have a camera or a mirror, Harry.
Harry: The water. There was water on the floor that night. She only saw the basilisk's reflection.
* * *
Draco Malfoy: Training for the ballet, Potter?
* * *
Ron: Have you spoken to Hermione?
Harry: She should be out of hospital in a few days... when she stops coughing up fur balls.
* * *
Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "Follow the butterflies"?
* * *
Harry: Wish you were here, Hermione. We need you. Now more than ever.
* * *
Hermione: It's a bit strange, isn't it?
Harry: Strange?
Hermione: You hear this voice, a voice only you can hear, and then Mrs. Norris turns up petrified? It's just... strange.
Harry: Do you think I should have told them? Dumbledore and the others, I mean.
Ron: Are you mad?
Hermione: No, Harry. Even in the wizarding world, hearing voices isn't a good sign.
* * *
Tom Marvolo Riddle: Let's match the power of Lord Voldemort, Heir of Salazar Slytherin, against the famous Harry Potter.
* * *
Tom Marvolo Riddle: Haven't I told you? Killing Mudbloods doesn't matter to me any more. For many months now, my new target has been you.
* * *
Uncle Vernon: I should think you'd be a little more grateful. We've raised you since you were a baby, given you the food off our table, even let you have Dudley's second bedroom, purely out of the goodness of our hearts.
* * *
Draco Malfoy: "Enemies of the Heir Beware"? You'll be next, mudbloods.
* * *
Tom Marvolo Riddle: Funny, the damage a silly little book can do, especially in the hands of a silly little girl.
* * *
Professor Snape: You were seen. By no less than seven Muggles! Do you have any idea how serious this is? You have risked the exposure of our world! Not to mention the damage you inflicted on a Whomping Willow that's been on these grounds since before you were born!
Ron: Honestly, Professor Snape, I think it did more damage to us.
Professor Snape: Silence! I assure you that were you in Slytherin and your fate rested with me, the both of you would be on the train home tonight!
* * *
Ron: Is there anything you CAN do?
Gilderoy Lockhart: Yes, now you mention it. I'm rather gifted with Memory Charms. Otherwise, you see, all those wizards would have gone blabbing. And I'd never have sold another book.
* * *
Harry: You're running away? After all that stuff you did in your books?
Gilderoy Lockhart: Books can be misleading...
Harry: You wrote them!
Gilderoy Lockhart: My dear boy, do use your common sense! My books wouldn't have sold half as well if people didn't think *I'd* done all those things!
* * *
Harry: But I haven't had any messages, from any of my friends. Not one, all summer.
Dudley Dursley: Who'd want to be friends with you?
* * *
You may see the trailer here.


Plot: 8/10
Entertainment: 9/10
Acting: 8/10
Originality: 9/10
Music and Sound: 8/10


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