JourneywomanHarry Potter and the Order of the Movies - the Generation Gap of the Potterverse
July 1st 2007 14:20
Get ready for the next blockbuster in the Harry Potter dynasty
There are toys, action figures, games games games, DVD's, music, a whole range of clothing and accessories - from Potter glasses through Hogwarts outfits and "invisibility" cloaks and wands! - IMAX screenings of the movie, marathons, star appearrances, billing billing billing... and the books, of course!
It's Potter-tastic! It's also worth a huge fortune!
Daniel Radcliffe at the World Premiere
There are a great many issues to cover. A lot is happening for Harry Potter in 2007! For a start, the final book of the series (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - but like you needed a reminder!) is to be released later this year - posing about eight billion questions with at least as many answers on at least as many blogs all over the net.
The stars are growing up! And they're becoming increasingly tasty what's more!!! Worse still they're becoming itchy to get out into the real world and away from the eternally youthful Potter paradise - so very limiting artistically children!
The increasingly yummy children of the Potter revolution
Early reviews of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix are in and, so far, they ain't up to much! The question of why the Potter films are even reviewed instantly leaps to mind. Everyone is going to go and see them whether the reviews are bad or otherwise! This is, after all, the biggest on screen cult movement in history. Not even Lord of the Rings really compares... well it was only a TRILOGY wasn't it?!?!
Harry Potter 5 opens with high drama. Given the dark (that's DARK!!!!!) nature of the book it is based on it could hardly do otherwise. Harry - young, errr, well, not quite so young, but increasingly tasty Daniel Radcliffe - is attacked by Dementor's in the service of Lord Voldemort... or are they???
She's Dolores Umbridge and she's not happy!!!!!!!!
Umbridge's character as a prime basket of camp-nasty, and early tips about who would play her ranged from the sublime (Judi Dench) to the ridiculous (Kate Hudson). When Oscar nominated UK veteran Imelda Staunton got the job, the direction of the wind almost changed with the number of heads snapping round to check out the syndicate's new arrival.
Advance word is that Staunton steals the movie with a brilliant, dark (that's DARK!!!!!) performance - and comic timing so taut it could crack open a Horcrux - and you all know what they are now don't you!
Imelda Staunton - Hogwarts has not seen her like before!
But then young Em has grown up into quite the young fox! An important point to realise as most of the cast has followed in her footsteps. Radcliffe infamously had tounges and tempers out in full force when he disrobed for the London stage in a revival of Equus. Despite some excessive body hair in some areas he had crowds swooning!
Rupert Grint, like his character has become a lanky red headed atheltic type... don't even mention his two twin brothers!
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint
It's a long way from the first film where a diminuitive Radcliffe and sidekick Grint dealt with a vicious troll and referred to his "bogey's"!!! The Potter generation has matured right alongside their onscreen idols.
Puberty has been a rite of passage they have endured together and with perhaps somewhat greater understanding thanks to the books and the films.
All that's been missing has been an off-screen relationship between one of "the big three"! Emma Watson, responded to questions of that ilk in this movie's round of endless and exhausting interviews and press-conferences with "they're like my brothers!"
DISASTER!!!!!
A little on set romance never hurts the box-office!
Pirated copies of the film are already legion on the net as slowly but surely the Harry Potter machine takes the film and its media circus openings around the globe.
It opens in Australia Wednesday, July 11 and the queues are already forming online as advanced ticket sales swell. Despite early reports that the movie is a letdown, the reasons for it seem somewhat hollow just at present - as if the critics are holding back on purpose to keep the crowds guessing and the box-office up!
Stand by for a proper review...
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