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As Harry has matured (with Daniel Radcliff evolving nicely as an actor), so too have Rowling's themes and concerns.
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I know it is said every time a new Harry Potter hits the big screen, but Order of the Phoenix is truly the darkest and most mature film in the series yet. Needless to say, a terrifying showdown between good and evil ensues. With Harry Potter as their leader, "Dumbledore's Army" meet secretly in a hidden room at Hogwarts to hone their wizarding skills in preparation for battle with the Dark Lord and his Death Eaters. When Professor Umbridge refuses to train her students in practical defensive magic, a select group of students decides to learn on their own.
In fact, the Ministry of Magic is doing everything it can to keep the wizarding world from knowing the truth, including appointing Ministry official Dolores Umbridge as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts. In Order of the Phoenix, Lord Voldemort has returned, but few want to believe it.
Given that so many have either read the book or seen the film, it hardly seems necessary to recap the story but I'll give it the old college try. Make no mistake, Order of the Phoenix is far from a terrible film - there's plenty of magic and whimsy on hard, and there's still great pleasure to be had in watching Rowling's now-classic characters and set-pieces come to life - it just lacks the true engagement of its predecessors. The story and character omissions are the most damaging of all of the Potter flicks so far, giving the film an at times perfunctory feel, as if we are witnessing only a stepping stone to the next movie and not a film that lives and breathes on its own. But while 'Order of the Phoenix' hits all of the same narrative notes as Rowling's book, it doesn't sing the same tune.
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The end result is a bit like finally getting to sneak into the grand library of Hogwarts, and only finding a stack full of Cliff's Notes.Įven at her most indulgent, Rowling has always maintained a keen appreciation for story, with each of the Harry Potter books functioning as a satisfying stand-alone adventure while also fitting snugly into a larger whole. The longest of Rowling's tomes, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is 870 pages long, yet the movie version clocks in at sparse (by Potter flick standards) 139 minutes. It's a strange phenomenon, but as J.K Rowling's Harry Potter books get longer, their film adaptations seem to get shorter.
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