The Dragon Boat Festival revisited the classic "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", which once again stimulated my creative interest. Here are my thoughts on the film.
In "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," Albus Dumbledore whispers, "Dark and hard times are ahead." What does he think is hidden behind it?
In this adventure, Harry will fight giant lizards, face attacks from Death Eaters, and perhaps the most difficult task for a 14-year-old is to invite a girl to be his dance partner at the Christmas ball.
There's no question that Harry has survived these challenges as, in the publishing world, his next adventure is out, but the test provided by Goblet of Fire stretches his powers to the limit.
Harry Potter just turned 13 in the last "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", and the "Harry Potter" series turned Harry Potter into a PG-13 level characters. There's also at least one postman owl and what looks like a postal crow in the movie (it probably stands for FedEx), but many of the little details from the earlier films are missing to make room for a stronger, scarier plot. Will the show continue to grow with Harry when he turns 17 and get an R rating?
Of course, Voldemort seems to have infinite evil powers. While we caught a glimpse of his face in The Philosopher's Stone, he didn't disappoint for the first time we saw him in full on the big screen in Goblet of Fire: Ralph Fiennes The hairless, slug-skinned monster with snake-like nostrils was eventually rejoined by the Death Eaters, who had been crippled by Harry's magic earlier in the Harry Potter franchise. . With Voldemort returning to something close to his latent powers, the entire fabric of Hogwarts School and indeed Harry's world is threatened, and the film becomes a battle between the school's civilized traditions and Voldemort's dark void.
This movie is more violent and less endearing than the others, but it has purpose, shape and style, just like the Triwizard Tournament at the beginning of the movie. The Goblet of Fire selected three finalists, and then the Goblet of Fire spit out an unprecedented fourth name: the name of Harry Potter. It's against the rules, because you have to be 17 to play in the Triwizard Tournament, and Harry is only 14, but Dumbledore is helpless: what the blackjack wants, he gets. The question is, who entered Harry's name and Harry said he didn't?
The Triwizard Tournament starts at the beginning of the film, but after the Quidditch World Cup, the venue for the Quidditch World Cup was so large that the Senate Chamber in Star Wars looked like a dinner theater. The cup final was interrupted by ominous omen; the attack by the Death Eaters showed that Voldemort was back and he meant it. But the initial skirmish was repelled, and the students returned to Hogwarts, joined by exchange students from two overseas wizarding academies: from France, the girls from Beauxbatons, like Behme Man's maids lined up in the procession; sharp-cut Aryan boys from the Durmstrang school in Central Europe.
Besides Harry, Cedric Diggory was a Triwizard player from Hogwarts, and the other finalists were Victor Krum, a Quidditch player from Durmstrang The coach, who looks ready to go pro, and the mellow Fleur Delacour, the banshee of Beauxbatons. Together they face three challenges: they must conquer fire-breathing dragons, rescue captives in a dark lagoon, and enter a labyrinth that appears infinite from the air. The labyrinth contains a threat to Harry that I'm not sure the rules of the Triwizard Tournament anticipated; it awaits Voldemort himself, who has been lurking behind the scenes and now emerges with vicious fury.
Harry also has to work hard for his fourth year at Hogwarts. As usual, there is a strange new teacher on the staff. Alast "Mad-Eye" Moody, the newly appointed Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, appears to be made up of something superfluous; he has a prosthetic arm, a glass eye with a zoom lens that works independently of His real eyes twirled.
Finally, there is one more problem to be solved, and that is the maturity of puberty. I always thought Harry would eventually fall in love with Hermione Granger, despite their inseparable friend Ron Weasleran having the same ambitions. But at the Christmas ball, Harry mustered the courage to propose to Cho Chang, who liked him very much. Ron asked Hermione, but she already had a date with a student who could most make Ron jealous.
Most of the regulars from the Harry Potter series are back, and even if it's just for a brief scene, we're delighted to see Hagrid, the gamekeeper, finally find true love with Lady Maxime, the headmaster of Beauxbatons School. You should remember that Hagrid was a hairy half-blood giant. Frances is even taller, but luckily she's not a hairy giant. One of the new characters is nosy Rita Skeeter, a gossip columnist for the Daily Prophet. The Daily Prophet's pictures speak, just like the portraits in the early movies.
With this fourth film, the Harry Potter saga shows more than ever the resilience that JK Rowling originally invented. Her novels create a world that can expand infinitely and spawn new characters without limit. There are schools like Hogwarts in other countries, which is news and offers a lot of possibilities. Harry's growing age is the only obstacle that keeps the series from going forever. The thought of him going back to Hogwarts for Boys' Day makes me feel down.
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