10 things you didn't know about the movie "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azka

Chapter 1

Alfonso Cuarón , the now- Oscar-winning director of " Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, " had not read the Harry Potter books , nor had he seen the first two films when he was offered by the producers to take over. directed, but his good friend and colleague Guillermo del Toro persuaded him to say "yes" without hesitation. The Alfonso Cuaron wanted to be better acquainted with the three young protagonists of the film so instructed them to write an essay on the character impersonated anyone. The Emma Watson wrote 16 pages as you did the Hermione , o Daniel Radcliffe a page as you did Harry , and Rupert Grint did not write anything, just as you did Ron . O Sir Ian McKellen did not want to assume the role of Dumbledore after the death of Richard Harris for two reasons. First he did not want, after Gandalf , to play a more literary and cinematic legend and secondly by the late Richard Harris THE considered "awful actor" and so thought that it would honor his memory. The Alfonso Cuaron had the idea of the three main protagonists to wear casual clothes instead of the official costumes of Hogwarts , so they can better express the personalities of the heroes Tz.K . Rowling , while instructing the other students to wear their uniforms as they wished, e.g. with loose ties, to make the result more realistic. In the scene where the insane were approaching the Hogwarts Express, the director wanted the rain turns to ice ( ice ), but those responsible for the effects they had heard " eyes ", ie "eyes" so they just saw Cuarón their plans fall "Eyes" from the sky, he was horrified and asked them to make the change immediately. One of the most important things Alfonso Cuarón did in this film was to "unify" the spaces of Hogwarts , inside and outside the castle, so that it looks like e.g. that outside the Great Hall there are the stairs and next to them the Gryffindor Dormitory and so on . O David Thewlis was the first choice of Alfonso Cuaron for his role Lupin . O Ian Hart , who had impersonated the first film Professor Quirrell , had motivated his colleague to assume the role of Remus Lupin , saying that "the best character in the book." The tattoos on Sirius Black 's body are inspired by Russian prison gangs and symbolize fear and respect. When illustrators Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima designed the Map of the Raiders, they decided to make something more original than a roll-wrapped papyrus and depict Hogwarts levels on the levels of the map itself, which they "washed" with coffee, for to show used. O Gary Oldman decided to accept the proposal on the role of Sirius because he needed a job, and was already a time outside the studio. He was heavily inspired by the director to shape Sirius' character on the big screen, while he compared him to John Lennon .