Film

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a 2007 fantasy adventure film, based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. Directed by David Yates, produced by David Heyman's company Heyday Films, and written by Michael Goldenberg, it is the fifth film in the popular Harry Potter film series. The story follows Harry Potter in his fifth year at the magic school Hogwarts. The Ministry of Magic refuses to believe the return of Lord Voldemort bureaucrat Dolores Umbridge as a teacher at the school. and appoints

Live-action filming took place in England and Scotland for exterior locations and Leavesden Film Studios in Watford for interior locations from February to November 2006, with a one-month break in June. Post-production on the film continued for several months afterwards to add in visual effects. The film's budget was reportedly between £75 and 100 million ($150–200 million).^[3]^[4] Warner Bros., the distributor of the film, released it in the UK on 12 July 2007, and in the US on 11 July, both in conventional and IMAX theatres, and was the first Potter film to be released in IMAX 3-D.

Cast

Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, the protagonist. He has to battle with much of the Wizarding world's denial over Harry's encounter with the evil Lord Voldemort at the end of the previous year. He teaches his friends to defend themselves in duels.
Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley, one of Harry's best friends. He helps Harry found Dumbledore's Army and accompanies Harry to the Department of Mysteries in the climax of the film.
Emma Watson as Hermione Granger, one of Harry's best friends. She helps Harry found Dumbledore's Army and accompanies Harry to the Department of Mysteries in the climax of the film.
Ralph Fiennes as Lord Voldemort, the antagonist, who lures Harry to the Ministry of Magic and nearly kills him.
Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore, the Hogwarts headmaster. He upsets Harry by remaining distant from him throughout the year, but explains at the end of the film why he isolated himself. He also explains the meaning of the prophecy to Harry after duelling with Lord Voldemort in the climax of the film.
Gary Oldman as Sirius Black, Harry's godfather who, during the battle at the Department of Mysteries, is murdered by his cousin Bellatrix Lestrange, causing Harry great emotional damage.
Imelda Staunton as Dolores Umbridge, the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, a plant from the Ministry of Magic who prevents Harry and his friends from learning practical magic, and refuses to allow Harry to claim that Lord Voldemort has returned.
Alan Rickman as Severus Snape, the Potions master. He helps teach Harry to block his mind's connection to Lord Voldemort's. He holds a grudge against Harry because he and Harry's father hated each other while they were at school together.
Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange, one of Lord Voldemort's right-hand Death Eaters who leads the battle at the Department of Mysteries.
Katie Leung as Cho Chang, a fellow member of the DA, with whom Harry shares his first kiss.

Differences from the book

At 766 pages in the British edition and 870 in the American edition, Order of the Phoenix is the longest Harry Potter book in the series. Screenwriter Michael Goldenberg described his task to cut down the novel as searching for "the best equivalent way to tell the story. My job was to stay true to the spirit of the book, rather than to the letter". Goldenberg said that Rowling told him, the producers, and Yates that "she just wanted to see a great movie, and gave [them] permission to take whatever liberties [they] felt [they] needed to take to translate the book into a movie she would love". Cutting down the book to meet the time frame of the film, Goldenberg explained, became "clearer when [he] figured out that the organizing principle of the screenplay was to narrate Harry's emotional journey". He and Yates "looked for every opportunity to get everything [they] could in there. And where [they] couldn't, to sort of pay homage to it, to have it somewhere in the background or to feel like it could be taking place off-screen".

One cut Goldenberg had to make, which he "hated" to do, was the absence of Quidditch, the Wizarding sport. "The truth is that any movie made of this book, whoever made it, that had included the Quidditch subplot would have been a lesser film", he said. In the book, Ron grows as a character by trying out for the Quidditch team. "Ron facing challenges and coming into his own in the same way that Harry is, we tried to get that into the film in other ways, as much as possible. So, you feel like, if not the details of that story, at least the spirit of it is present in the film". The change disappointed actor Rupert Grint who had been "quite looking forward to the Quidditch stuff".

In a significant scene in the book, Harry sees a memory of his own father humiliating Snape in their school days, and Snape insulting his mother after she stood up for him. In the film, it is abbreviated to an "idea", in Goldenberg's words. "It's an iconic moment when you realize your parents are normal, flawed human beings. ... Things get trimmed out, but I kept the meat of that in there — and that was what really gave me the coming-of-age story." Young Lily Potter did not appear at all, but promotional screenshots show unknown teenager Susie Shinner in the role.

The scene at St Mungo's, the hospital where Harry and friends run into classmate Neville Longbottom and learn that his parents were tortured into insanity by Bellatrix Lestrange, was cut because it required the construction of a new set. The main purpose of the action of the scene was relocated to the Room of Requirement after one of the D.A. lessons. Also, in order to speed up the film's climax, several events in the Ministry leading up to Harry's battle with Voldemort were removed, including the brain room.[64] Mrs. Weasley's encounter with a boggart at Grimmauld Place, Ron, Hermione and Malfoy becoming prefects, the appearance of Mundungus Fletcher (member of the Order, and the thief who eventually steals Slytherin's locket discarded in Grimmauld Place), and Firenze teaching Divination followed suit.

The character of Kreacher the house-elf, who was included in the script only at Rowling's request, has a larger part in the book than the film. In the novel, he is seen saving some of the Black family's artefacts which the Order of the Phoenix throw away, one of which is a locket which becomes extremely important in the seventh book. "It was kind of tricky to raise that in our story, because it's for so much later", Yates said. "We figured we can probably introduce it later, and that's the approach we took". Whilst Kreacher remained, all scenes involving Dobby were cut, and his important actions given to other characters.

Rita Skeeter, the journalist played by Miranda Richardson in Goblet of Fire, was also removed. In the book, Hermione blackmails her into writing articles that support Harry as the rest of the Wizarding world denies his claims. Richardson noted that "it's never gonna be the book on film, exactly. ... They'll take certain aspects from the book and make it something that they hope is going to be commercial and that people want to see". Similarly, the character of Marietta Edgecombe was cut from the film, her significant role in the book (betraying the DA ) instead filled by the character of Cho Chang. Consequently, most of the Chang scenes in the book (for example, the date she goes on with Harry ) are cut.

In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, it is stated that Morfin Gaunt was buried in the ground beside Azkaban. In contrast to this, the Order of the Phoenix film shows Azkaban to be surrounded by ferocious waves.

The centaurs bear a different grudge in the film than they do in the book. In the book the centaurs are angry at wizards for having centaur Firenze teach at Hogwarts but in the movie they are angry at the Ministry of Magic for legislation against them. They do not attack Harry and Hermione when they lead Professor Umbridge into the Forbidden Forest. Also in the book Herimione is trying to lead Umbridge to the centaurs while in the film she is leading them to Grawp.

In the film the death eaters and order members are able to transform themselves into a sand-like substance and fly/teleport across the ministry when Harry and the others try to escape. The order's substance is white while the death eaters are black. This is not in the book and in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Voldemort is the only one who can do such actions as he chases Harry across the skies.

In the book, Sirius is attacked by Bellatrix Lestrange with a red blast, the color of a stunning spell, before falling back into the veil, whereas in the movie Sirius is hit with a green Avada Kedavra, a definite killing curse.

In the book Harry never ends up hearing the prophecy from the ball and it ends up breaking. In the film he hears the prophesy in its entirety upon picking it up off the shelf and in the end hands the intact glass ball to Lucius Malfoy the moment before the Order arrives.