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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a 2004 fantasy film directed by Alfonso Cuarón and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, based on J. K. Rowling's 1999 novel of the same name. Produced by Chris Columbus, David Heyman, and Mark Radcliffe and written by Steve Kloves, it is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and the third instalment in the Harry Potter film series. The film stars Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, with Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley, and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger. The film follows Harry's third year at Hogwarts and his quest to uncover the truth about his past, including the connection recently-escaped Azkaban prisoner Sirius Black has to Harry and his late parents.
With Prisoner of Azkaban, production of the Harry Potter films switched to an eighteen-month cycle. Cuarón was selected as director from a shortlist that included Callie Khouri and Kenneth Branagh. The cast of previous instalments returned for the film, with the additions of Gary Oldman, David Thewlis, and Emma Thompson, among others. It was the first appearance of Michael Gambon as Professor Albus Dumbledore, due to Richard Harris's death in 2002. Principal photography began in February 2003, at Leavesden Film Studios. It was the first in the series to extensively use real-life locations, with sets built in Scotland and scenes shot in London. Filming concluded in November 2003.
The film was released on 31 May 2004 in the United Kingdom, and on 4 June 2004 in North America, as the first Harry Potter film using IMAX Technology and released into IMAX theatres. Prisoner of Azkaban grossed a total of over $797 million worldwide, making it the second-highest-grossing film of 2004, and received praise for Cuarón's direction and the lead actors' performances. The film is credited for marking a notable change in the franchise's tone and directorial style, and is often considered by critics and fans alike to be the best Harry Potter film. It was nominated for two Academy Awards, Best Original Music Score and Best Visual Effects, at the 77th Academy Awards in 2004. It was followed by Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in 2005.
Harry is forced to spend the next summer in the Dursley family. Before him is a difficult task - to get permission from his uncle to visit Hogsmeade. But for this it is necessary not to contradict the uncle's sister in anything. Unfortunately, the boy is unable to take the coveted permission. Aunt speaks unflatteringly about Harry's parents. He turns her into a balloon, the woman flies away. The boy quarrels with his uncle and runs away from home. On the way, the boy reads an article in the newspaper about Sirius Black, a death eater who escaped from Azkaban prison.
Harry then meets with Ron's family and Hermione, who has acquired a cat. The older Weasley tells Harry that Black wants to kill him.
The train in which the heroes are traveling is inspected by the guards of Azkaban. They are so terrible that Harry faints.
Forest ranger Hagrid teaches third years how to take care of magical creatures. In the first lesson, the hippogriff injured Malfoy. The Ministry of Magic has decided to execute an innocent being. Black tries several times to infiltrate the school, but his plans are successful.
Harry falls off his broom during a game of Quidditch due to the appearance of Dementors. The boy asks teacher Lupin to show him how to drive away the disgusting guardians. After much effort, Harry masters such a spell.
The boy secretly enters Hogsmeade using a magic map. There, Harry learns that Black framed the boy's parents and killed a friend of the Potter family, Peter Pettigrew. Harry vows revenge on the killer.
Professor Trelawney predicts to Harry that Voldemort has returned and will be reunited with his servant. The trio go to support Hagrid during the execution of the hippogriff. The gamekeeper gives Ron his rat, which has long since disappeared. On the way to school, a black dog drags Ron to the Shrieking Shack. Friends have to go there.
At the cabin, Harry learns that the dog is Black and he didn't betray his parents. Ron's rat is Pettigrew, who is responsible for the death of the Potters. The heroes learn that Lupine is a werewolf. The professor transforms and attacks everyone. Black protects Harry. Pettigrew manages to escape. Harry and Black are attacked by Dementors, but a spell drives them away. Black faces imprisonment again. Hermione and Harry use the time-wheel to travel back in time, save the hippogriff from death, and free Black, who flies off on the hippogriff.
The work teaches readers never to hide anything and not to lie.
1. THE DEMENTORS REPRESENT DEPRESSION.
Readers who live with depression may see something familiar in Prisoner of Azkaban’s soul-sucking Dementors. According to the book, “Get too near a Dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked out of you. If it can, the Dementor will feed on you long enough to reduce you to something like itself ... soulless and evil. You will be left with nothing but the worst experiences of your life."
2. ROWLING REGRETTED GIVING HARRY THE MARAUDER’S MAP.
In Prisoner of Azkaban, the Marauder’s Map is introduced as a way for Harry to track Sirius Black and learn of the survival of Peter Pettigrew. But this plot device proved problematic for Rowling later on this series. In Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide, she wrote, “The Marauder’s Map subsequently became something of a bane to its true originator (me), because it allowed Harry a little too much freedom of information.” She went on to say that she sometimes wished she had made Harry lose the map for good in the later books.
3. ROWLING WAS EXCITED TO INTRODUCE REMUS LUPIN.
One of the aspects Rowling most enjoyed about writing Prisoner of Azkaban was introducing Remus Lupin. The Defense Against the Dark Arts professor and secret werewolf is one of the author's favorite characters in the series, and as she told Barnes & Noble in 1999, “I was looking forward to writing the third book from the start of the first because that's when Professor Lupin appears.”
4. CROOKSHANKS IS BASED ON A REAL CAT.
Harry had Hedwig the owl, Ron had his pet rat Scabbers, and in book three, Hermione got a pet of her own: an intelligent half-Kneazle cat named Crookshanks. J.K. Rowling is allergic to cats, and she admits on her website that she prefers dogs, but she does have fond memories of a cat that roamed the London neighborhood where she worked in the 1980s. When writing Crookshanks, she gave him that cat’s haughty attitude and smushed-face appearance.
