"The time has come"
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Produced by Chris Columbus, David Heyman, Mark Radcliffe
Screenplay by Steve Kloves
Based on "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" by J. K. Rowling
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Gary Oldman
Music by John Williams
Cinematography: Michael Seresin
Edited by Steven Weisberg
Production companies: Heyday Films, 1492 Pictures
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date: 31 May 2004 (United Kingdom)
Running time: 141 minutes
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Budget: $130 million
Box office: $796.7 million
"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" is a fantasy adventure film directed by Alfonso Cuarón and based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. This is the third instalment in the "Harry Potter" film series which follows Harry Potter's third year at Hogwarts as he is informed that a prisoner named Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban intending to kill him.
Cast
- Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter
- Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley
- Emma Watson as Hermione Granger
- Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid
- Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore
- Richard Griffiths as Vernon Dursley
- Gary Oldman as Sirius Black
- Alan Rickman as Severus Snape
- Fiona Shaw as Petunia Dursley
- Maggie Smith as Minerva McGonagall
- Timothy Spall as Peter Pettigrew
- David Thewlis as Professor Lupin
- Emma Thompson as Sybill Trelawney
- Julie Walters as Molly Weasley
I suppose I already may name my favourite part of the film series - and that's not just because of charismatic Gary Oldman. The story us full of unexpected moments (more than usually in "Harry Potter" series), dark colours; acting and special effects are on the high level. The only thing which make me put 9/10 is Emma Watson's play - it seemed a little too simulated, to my mind.
Advantages
- Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter
- Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley
- Emma Watson as Hermione Granger
- Gary Oldman as Sirius Black
- Music
- The story
- Dark and mystic
- Magic
Disadvantages
- A little bit too long
"Strangenesses"
- When magic was normal?
Clue Moments
- Fat Lady's portrait
- Scabbers' true face
- The truth about Sirius
- Dementors
- Lupin's truth
Soundtracks
- John Williams - A Winter's Spell (Hogsmeade Source)
- John Williams - A Word of Caution
- John Williams - Another Memory
- John Williams - Apparition on the Train (Album)
- John Williams - Arrival at Hogwarts
- John Williams - Aunt Marge's Waltz
- John Williams - Back at Gryffindor
- John Williams - Buckbeak's Flight
- John Williams - Dementor Test
- John Williams - Expecto Patronum!
- John Williams - Family Photo
- John Williams - Grave Danger
- John Williams - Hagrid the Professor
- John Williams - Harry's Boggart (Album)
- John Williams - Harry's Wow
- John Williams - Haunted Playground
- John Williams - Honeydukes and the Shrieking Shack 1:10 0.7
- John Williams - Lumos! (Hedwig's Theme)
- John Williams - Meeting Buckbeak
- John Williams - Neville's Boggart
- John Williams - Night Becomes Day
- John Williams - Night Voyage
- John Williams - Parvati's Boggart
- John Williams - Quidditch, Third Year (Album)
- John Williams - Remembering Lily
- John Williams - Ron's Boggart
- John Williams - Secrets of the Castle
- John Williams - The Bridge
- John Williams - The Bus Stop
- John Williams - The Grim
- John Williams - The Headless Hunt
- John Williams - The Knight Bus (Part I)
- John Williams - The Knight Bus (Part II)
- John Williams - The Monster Book
- John Williams - The Patronus Light (Album)
- John Williams - The Portrait Gallery (Film)
- John Williams - The Portrait Gallery
- John Williams - The Snowball Fight
- John Williams - Trying to Catch Smoke
- John Williams - Winter Comes
- John Williams - A Window to the Past
- John Williams - Chasing Scabbers (Alternate Album Segment)
- John Williams - Chasing Scabbers
- John Williams - Confronting Sirius
- John Williams - Convergence
- John Williams - Crystal Gazing
- John Williams - Dark Dreams
- John Williams - Double Trouble
- John Williams - Finale
- John Williams - Forward to Time Past
- John Williams - Hagrid and Buckbeak
- John Williams - Lupin's Transformation
- John Williams - Mischief Managed!
- John Williams - Nox! (Coda)
- John Williams - Peter Pettigrew
- John Williams - Premonition of Evil
- John Williams - Reunited
- John Williams - Saving Buckbeak (Alternate Film Ending)
- John Williams - Saving Buckbeak
- John Williams - Sirius Black's Escape
- John Williams - The Axe Falls
- John Williams - The Dementors Converge
- John Williams - The Executioner
- John Williams - The Knight Bus (Alternate Album Segment)
- John Williams - The Werewolf Scene
- John Williams - The Whomping Willow
Quotations
* * *
Dumbledore: A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.
* * *
Sirius Black: I expect you're tired of hearing this, but you look so like your father. Except your eyes. You have...Harry: My mother's eyes.
Sirius Black: It's cruel that I got to spend so much time with James and Lily, and you so little. But know this; the ones that love us never really leave us. And you can always find them in here.
[puts his hand to Harry's heart]
* * *
Dumbledore: [to Professor Snape] For in dreams, we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let him swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.
* * *
Dumbledore: A word of caution: dementors are vicious creatures. They will not distinguish between the one they hunt and the one who gets in their way. Therefore I must warn each and every one of you to give them no reason to harm you. It's not in the nature of a dementor to be forgiving. But you know happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, when one only remembers to turn on the light.
* * *
Harry: He was their friend, and he betrayed them. He was their *friend*! I hope he finds me! Cause when he does, I'm gonna be ready. When he does, I'm gonna kill him!
* * *
Harry: Expecto Patronum!
* * *
Harry: But you're innocent!Sirius Black: And you know it. And for now, that'll do.
* * *
Professor Lupin: Our pain becomes their power.
* * *
Harry: It's not... happy. Well, it is, it's the happiest I've ever felt. But it's complicated.Professor Lupin: Is it strong?
* * *
Peter Pettigrew: Harry, James wouldn't have wanted me killed! Your dad... your dad would have spared me! He would shown me mercy!
* * *
Professor Lupin: Why do you look so miserable, Harry?Harry: None of it made any difference. Pettigrew escaped.
Professor Lupin: Didn't make any difference? Harry, it made all the difference in the world! You helped discover the truth. You saved an innocent man from a terrible fate. It made a great deal of difference.
* * *
Hermione: If you're going to kill Harry you'll have to kill us too!Sirius Black: No, only one will die tonight.
Harry: Then it'll be you!
* * *
Shrunken Head: Mind your head!
* * *
Harry: Now what?Hermione: We save Sirius.
Harry: How?
Hermione: No idea.
* * *
Stan Shunpike: Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard. My name is Stan Shunpike and I will be your conductor this evening.
* * *
Harry: You were right, Hermione! It wasn't my dad I saw earlier! It was me! I saw myself conjuring the patronus before! I knew I could do it this time, because... well, because I'd already done it! Does that make sense?Hermione: No! But I DON'T LIKE FLYING!
* * *
Harry: What happened to me?
Ron: Well, you sort of went rigid. We thought maybe you were having a fit or something.
Harry: And did either of you two, you know, pass out?Ron: No... I felt weird though, like I'd never be cheerful again.
Harry: But someone was screaming... a woman...
Hermione: No one was screaming, Harry.
* * *
Professor Minerva McGonagall: Years ago, when Potter's parent's were marked for death, do you remember? They went into hiding. Few knew where they were. One who did was Sirius Black. And he told You-Know-Who!Cornelius Fudge: Not only did Black lead You-Know-Who to the Potters that night, he also killed one of their friends, Peter Pettigrew.
Madame Rosmerta: Peter Pettigrew?
Professor Minerva McGonagall: Little lump of a boy, always following after Sirius Black.
Madame Rosmerta: Oh, I remember him. Never let James and Sirius out of his sight. But what happened?
Professor Minerva McGonagall: Well Peter Pettigrew tried to warn the Potters, and might have managed to if he hadn't run into an old friend.
Madame Rosmerta: Mhm, Sirius Black.
Cornelius Fudge: Black was vicious. He didn't kill Pettigrew, he destroyed him. A finger. That's all that was left, a finger. Nothing else.
Professor Minerva McGonagall: Sirius Black may not have put his hands to the Potters, but he's the reason they're dead.
Cornelius Fudge: And now he wants to finish what he started.
* * *
Uncle Vernon: You bring her back! You bring her back now, you put her right!Harry: No! She deserved what she got! Keep away from me.
Uncle Vernon: You're not allowed to do magic outside of school.
Harry: Yeah? Try me.
Uncle Vernon: They won't take you back now! You've nowhere to go!
Harry: I don't care! Anywhere's better than here.
* * *
Aunt Marge: Still here, are you?Harry: Yes.
Aunt Marge: Don't say 'yes' in that ungrateful way.
* * *
Professor Snape: A remarkable feat, don't you think? To enter the castle on ones own, completely undetected?Dumbledore: Quite.
Professor Snape: Any theories on how he might have managed it?
Dumbledore: Many. Each as unlikely as the next.
Professor Snape: You may recall, prior to the start of term, I expressed concern about the appointment of Professor...
Dumbledore: Not a single person inside this castle would help Sirius Black to enter it. No, I'm quite convinced the castle is safe, and I'm more than willing to send the students back to their houses.
Professor Snape: What about Potter? Should he be warned?
Dumbledore: Perhaps, but for now let him sleep.
* * *
Malfoy: Potter! Is it true you fainted? I mean, you actually fainted?Ron: Shove off, Malfoy.
Harry: How did he find out?
Hermione: Just forget it.
* * *
You may see the trailer here.
Plot: 9/10
Entertainment: 10/10
Acting: 8/10
Originality: 8/10
Music and Sound: 8/10
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