Real Magic on the Movie Set.

[Steve]

If you read the-Leaky-Cauldron.org then you already know this, but I
found it very interesting that the Prisoner of Azkaban is the first HP
movie to hire a real magician as a consultant for the movie.

See - Leaky Cauldron Dec 4, 2003
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/

"He has taught Magic to several members of the cast including Daniel
Radcliffe & Emma Watson (Hermione and Harry), as well as holding the
first ever on-set Magic class!"

See also - Paul Kieve - World Famous Magician -
http://www.stageillusion.com/home.html#

That gives me a very good feeling about the movie. If Alfonso Cuaron
is sufficient concerned about the realism of the magic to hire one of
the best magicians in Europe, then he must be taking the creation of
this movie very seriously.

I am very much looking forward to Prisoner of Azkaban, I think Cuaron
will being a new and more positive artistic vision to the movies. 

But I confess that I am very worrried about Goblet of Fire. I really
don't  think Warner Brothers has a very good handle on just how much
they can compromise these movies and get away with it. 

When it comes to the larger books, I think they need people with
serious uncompromising artistic vision in charge. Look at how
wonderfully the production of Lord of the Rings has been done.
Certainly, is someone like that was at the helm of the HP movies, we
would have movies of enduring historical president; movies that would
endure for all time, just as the LotR movies surely will.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn