Talk:Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)

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Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast list 3 I wouldn't allow kids to watch this. 4 Cat list 5 Additional Trivia 6 A question 7 Title music 8 History of silver screen subliminally included? 9 Rowling cameo? 10 cast list vandalized 11 A wiki article or a review?

[edit] Plot

In the middle of the plot section everything kind of turns into very bad writing. This is my first comment on anything on Wiki so I hope I am not being too forward or stepping on toes. It's just that when I looked this movie up in conjunction with the other articles that part was like a massive stutter. --Sarah511 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sarah511 (talk • contribs) 06:45, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cast list

Is it really necessary to have a cast list for on the movies' pages? We already have one on the main Harry Potter page for all the films.

As was seen when the Fat Lady was re-cast, the same actor might not play a character in all films. Actually it would probably be better if the cast list were moved off Harry Potter onto a separate page, say Harry Potter cast. --Phil | Talk 08:15, Jul 2, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] I wouldn't allow kids to watch this.

What was this movie rated, not for anybody under 14 or something like that? Did that limit its distribution? For a children's book adaptation, it was really scary and dark, paranoid and outright horroristic. I think the producers made the spider invasion too extreme and underestimated the power of aracnophobia in modern society. It felt almost like Doom3. 195.70.32.136 08:22, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

It was PG. But, y'know, the movie series IS following the story of the book series, so... Sorry if you disliked it, but it's just probably going to get darker as the series goes on. 65.191.82.234 00:34, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

I found one thing about it that failed to be as offensive as it should have been. At least, I think I'm thinking of the correct movie. They do use the scene wherein Malfoy calls Hermione a "mudblood," but the reaction is mild, even tame. I think someone should have coached the actors better, because the reaction to that word should be as extreme and as negative as the reaction of a black kid to the word "nigger". In reducing the term to a mild insult, they take the teeth out of the whole plot. Kilyle 18:29, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

yep

[edit] Cat list

I think the list is useful. In the infobox it doesn't show who plays what and it's nice to be able to see that Snape is played by Rickman. So, I shortened the infobox because not that many people were the stars... they were big actors in the movie... but not the stars. Does that sound alright? gren グレン 04:52, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Additional Trivia

I heard last night, two bits of trivia which I will include in the trivia section later today once I have re-watched the film to verify. 1) When Hagrid rescues Harry from Knockturn Alley if you look in one of the shop windows you can see a set of harry potter books on display. 2) When Harry enters Dumbledore's office, there is a portrait of Gandalf above the door off to the right. Like I said I'm going to watch the film again today to see if this is right and if so i'll add to article. Death Eater Dan (Muahaha) 05:40, 13 April 2006 (UTC) On hold till I find out where the kids have hidden the DVD! Death Eater Dan (Muahaha) 22:21, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm anxious to see what you find! Emily ^{(Funtrivia Freak)} 01:21, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

One additional piece of trivia about Lockhart. Although this does not happen in the book, and is even impossible with Lockhart's current state of mind, we see a scene at the end of the movie, after the credits where a new book by Lockhart, "Who Am I?" is shown in the Flourish and Blotts window, with Lockhart's moving picture on the front cover —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.152.152.233 (talk) 18:39:43, August 19, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A question

If Richard Harris died in October, why is he in parts of the movie that were made after his death?

It was not made after his death, he is in the movie, the shots were filmed before he died and there is a new actor in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film). -- Cbrown1023 15:22, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Some short scenes were reportedly computer generated for Dumbledore. The tech exists, didn't Steve McQueen star a whole movie recently, having been dead for 25 years?

[edit] Title music

Can any one confirm if the famous Williams's HP main theme is from the russian song Katyusha? 212.108.200.69 20:33, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History of silver screen subliminally included?

I heard a well-respected film critic say on radio that HP2 CoS movie is actually full of famous historical film references, from Casablanca to Gone with the Wind, from Waterloo Bridge to North-by-Northwest. He said Columbus did that because he was upset that nobody took him and the HP1PH movie seriously.

Is this allegation true? Is there a detailed list of such homage references available? 82.131.210.162 20:01, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rowling cameo?

In the scene where Ron and Harry run into the column while trying to reach the magic railway track, we see a lone blond woman standing on the platform staring at them in puzzlement. She looks like J.K. Rowling and I wondered if the writer was doing an uncredited cameo appearance here. Does anyboy know whether this is true or not?

About the "mudblood" insult cited above: in the book neither Harry nor Hermione are familiar with the word when Malfoy first uses it; either Ron or Hagrid explains it to them afterward. Thus the failure to react actually made sense. The movie may have cut a subsequent scene where they DID react angrily, giving the misimpression that the insult did not matter. CharlesTheBold 01:32, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

I don't remember the book as well, but I do recall the movie Hermione being the one to explain that it meant "dirty blood" and that it refered to Muggleborns as, well, second-class citizens or worse. So she did know what it meant in the movie. As for the cut scene, that would be just a pity; but the fireworks should have been in the scene where it was first used by Malfoy. Kilyle 14:15, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] cast list vandalized

thhere is a line after the cast list of them all being bisexuals and some stuff after that. i trust that is not part of the article but an attempt at vandalism.

[edit] A wiki article or a review?

Has anyone noticed that there are parts of this that sound more like a movie review? "The plot becomes somewhat convoluted at this point in the movie." ??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.184.241.144 (talk) 02:09, 8 September 2007 (UTC)