The visual of the films were also aimed to show a child like comprehension of the magical world, from the perspective of someone completely new to the world. The characters were portrayed in a simpler manner: like Hagrid as a gentle giant Malfoys as evil Weasleys and faithful friends Harmione Granger as an exceptionally brilliant student Dubledore as the wise head of the institute. It can be understood, that the first film was mainly aimed towards the children, and hence the film bore all the hallmark attributes for the same. The opening credit of the film became an iconic music, which exuded an aura of magic and at the same time had an innocent undertone. The first movie, the Sorcerer’s Stone set up the platform for the audiences to understand the plight faced by Harry Potter while living with his relatives, and how they were always afraid of the special ‘gifts’ Harry had. Harry Potter was shown as a timid young orphaned boy, under the control of their relatives, the Dursleys, where he lived until he reached the age of schooling.
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In the series of the 8 films, the viewers were able to witness the development of each character in their maturity, confidence and ability to execute serious scenes with great ease. This allowed keeping true to the novel’s focus on the backgrounds of each characters. The main characters of the film: Daniel Radcliffe (playing the role of Harry Potter), Rupert Grint (playing Ron Weasley) and Emma Watson (playing Hermionie Granger) were all cast when they were children, as the characters playing their classmates and schoolmates. Starting from the casting of the crew, J K Rowling retained a considerable amount of control, ensuring that only British Actors were selected to play the British characters in the film.
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The films saw a gradual evolution in the characters, as well as they way their stories have been portrayed in the films.
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The Harry potter films were adapted from the novel series written by J K Rowling. The success of the film even inspired sequels to be made, and still has a global fan following years after the final film and novel on the series were released (Vezzali et al., 2015).
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Each sequel in the film was based on each novel, except the last two films which were made into two films. The British American series started with the release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (in UK) or Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (US and worldwide) on 2001, and the series completed with Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows (part 2) on 2011, with a total of eight. Based on the novels, a series of films were made, and distributed by Warner Brothers. For most of the fans of fiction novels and fiction films, Harry Potter isn’t an unknown character, which was based on the novels by the British Author J.