When Alfonso Cuarón was announced as the director of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" in 2002, it was a bit of a bold choice. The director of the first two films, Chris Columbus, delivered safe and dependable work. "The Sorcerer's Stone" and "Chamber of Secrets" were both perfectly competent adaptations, if not necessarily ones that blew us away with the camerawork.
Meanwhile, Alfonso Cuarón was not as interested in giving us a faithful adaptation as his predecessor. The very first scene in the movie shows Harry flippantly using magic outside of school, which any big fan of the books can tell you should've been a much bigger deal. "Prisoner of Azkaban" is also the movie that fails to give viewers the full history behind the Marauders provided in the book, a decision that would have an unfortunate snowball effect throughout the rest of the series. Whereas the first two...
Meanwhile, Alfonso Cuarón was not as interested in giving us a faithful adaptation as his predecessor. The very first scene in the movie shows Harry flippantly using magic outside of school, which any big fan of the books can tell you should've been a much bigger deal. "Prisoner of Azkaban" is also the movie that fails to give viewers the full history behind the Marauders provided in the book, a decision that would have an unfortunate snowball effect throughout the rest of the series. Whereas the first two...
- 8/14/2022
- by Michael Boyle
- Slash Film
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