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Everything you need to
      know about
 Harry Potter
and the Order
of the Phoenix
"It's the darkest film but in
many ways it's the darkest
book so it's faithful,"
--J.K.Rowling.
Presentation by
David Bruce
VisualHollywood.com

Movies Contain the
SYNOPSIS                                    Essence of Being Human

  Harry returns for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts and
 discovers that much of the wizarding community has been
 denied the truth about the teenager's recent encounter with the
 evil Lord Voldemort. Fearing that Hogwarts' venerable
 Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, is lying about Voldemort's
 return in order to undermine his power and take his job, the
 Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, appoints a new Defense
 Against the Dark Arts teacher to keep watch over Dumbledore
 and the Hogwarts students.

The Cinematic Arts Have the
CAST                                         Power to Transform

(L-R) RYAN NELSON as Slightly Creepy Boy, NICK SHRIM as
Somewhat Doubtful Boy, BONNIE WRIGHT as Ginny Weasley,
SHEFALI CHOWDHURY as Parvati Patil, OLIVER PHELPS as George
Weasley, AFSHAN AZAD as Padma Patil, KATIE LEUNG as Cho
Chang, JAMES PHELPS as Fred Weasley, DANIEL RADCLIFFE as
Harry Potter, MATTHEW LEWIS as Neville Longbottom, EMMA
WATSON as Hermione Granger, RUPERT GRINT as Ron Weasley,
EVANNA LYNCH as Luna Lovegood, WILLIAM MELLING as Nigel and
ALFRED ENOCH as Dean Thomas

Our Artists Are
CREW                                    Our Liberators

DAVID YATES (Director)
DAVID HEYMAN (Producer)
DAVID BARRON (Producer)
MICHAEL GOLDENBERG (Screenwriter)
LIONEL WIGRAM (Executive Producer)
SLAWOMIR IDZIAK (Director of Photography)
STUART CRAIG (Production Designer)
MARK DAY (Editor)
NICHOLAS HOOPER (Composer)

CAST

       (L-R)
       IMELDA STAUNTON as Dolores Umbridge
       EMMA THOMPSON as Sybill Trelawney
       MAGGIE SMITH as Minerva McGonagall
       DAVID BRADLEY as Argus Filch

                                        Actors are
                               Liberators Unaware

CAST

  Actors help us: laugh, be happy, cry, get angry,
  and even think. Can there be any better gifts?

Filmmakers are Revolutionaries,
CREW                 Not Just Entertainers

       DAVID YATES (Director)
       is an award-winning director, who
       has been primarily best known
       for his television work.
       Yates won his first BAFTA TV
       Award for his work on the BBC
       miniseries ―The Way We Live
       Now,‖ a period drama starring
       Matthew Macfadyen and Miranda
       Otto. In 2003, he directed the
       drama series ―State of Play,‖ for
       which he received a BAFTA TV
       Award nomination and won the
       Directors Guild of Great Britain
       (DGGB) Award for Outstanding
       Directorial Achievement.

Movie Making is the Convergence
TRIVIA AND NEWS                of Many Talents and Art Forms

   Philosopher's Stone    book (1997)   film (2001)
   Chamber of Secrets     book (1998)   film (2002)
   Prisoner of Azkaban    book (1999)   film (2004)
   Goblet of Fire         book (2000)   film (2005)
   Order of the Phoenix   book (2003)   film (2007)
   Half-Blood Prince      book (2005)   film (2008)
   Deathly Hallows        book (2007)   film (TBA)

Stories are
EXTENDED SYNOPSIS                                      Transforming

 It has been a long, lonely summer for Harry Potter as he awaits his
 fifth year of study at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
 It’s bad enough that he must endure living with the odious
 Dursleys, but he hasn’t received even a note from his classmates
 and closest friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.

EXTENDED SYNOPSIS                And there has not been
                                 any word from anyone in
                                 the aftermath of his
                                 confrontation with the
                                 evil Lord Voldemort. The
                                 letter that does arrive is
                                 not the kind for which he
                                 was hoping—
                                 pronouncing that Harry
                                 is about to be expelled
                                 from Hogwarts for
                                 illegally using magic
                                 outside of school and in
                                 the presence of a
                                 Muggle, namely his
                                 obnoxious cousin,
                                 Dudley. Never mind that
                                 it was in defense against
                                 an unprovoked and
                                 inexplicable attack by
  All Kids are Born Artistic     two Dementors.
  What is Natural is Essential

EXTENDED SYNOPSIS          Harry’s only hope is to defend
                           himself at what amounts to hardly
                           more than a kangaroo court
                           orchestrated by the Minister of
                           Magic, Cornelius Fudge, who has
                           his own reasons for wanting the
                           young wizard to be gone for good.
                           Much to Fudge’s chagrin, Harry is
                           acquitted—thanks largely to the
                           intervention of Hogwarts’
                           venerable Headmaster, Albus
                           Dumbledore —but his return to
                           Hogwarts is, for the first time,
                           apprehensive and uncomfortable.
                           Harry has learned that much of
                           the wizarding community has
                           been led to believe that the story
                           of the teenager’s recent
                           encounter with Voldemort is an
                           outright lie, putting Harry’s
  Stories Embody the       integrity in question.
  Essence of Being Human

Cinematic Story Telling is a
EXTENDED SYNOPSIS                   Profoundly Humanizing endeavor.

 Feeling ostracized and alone, Harry is beset by nightmares that
 seem to foretell sinister events. Worse, the one person whose
 counsel he needs most, Professor Dumbledore, is suddenly acting
 strangely distant from the confused and hurt young wizard.

Meanwhile, in an effort to keep an eye   EXTENDED SYNOPSIS
on Dumbledore and keep the Hogwarts
students—especially Harry—in line,
Fudge has appointed a new Defense
Against the Dark Arts teacher, the
duplicitous Professor Dolores
Umbridge. But Professor Umbridge’s
―Ministry-approved‖ course of
defensive magic leaves the young
wizards woefully unprepared to defend
themselves against the Dark Forces
threatening them. So, at the prompting
of Hermione and Ron, Harry is
convinced to take matters into his own
hands. Meeting secretly with a small
group of students who name
themselves ―Dumbledore’s Army,‖
Harry prepares the young wizards for
the extraordinary battle that he knows
lies ahead.
                                               Film making is a
                                              Community Event.

Free Artistic Expression is
CRITICAL OPINION                       a Mark of a Free Society

                   It's action-packed, darker, more epic
                   and thankfully schmaltz-free. And it's
                   the best Harry Potter film yet.
                   --Colin Bertram, New York Daily News

                   Able 'Potter' growing darker
                   --Tom Charity, CNN.com

                   Yes, the fifth in the projected seven-
                   movie series is quite a journey
                   --Nancy Churnin, Dallas Morning News

                   A powerful, poignant coming-of-age
                   story.
                   --Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine

Art is the Language
       FILM REVIEW                                                 of Liberation
      HARRY POTTER 5
What an amazing coming of age film HP5 is!
Unlike the previous installments, the focus
here is on Harry’s inner struggle. His friends
did not write him over the summer. This
disappointment is just the beginning for him.

Harry has a very real inner struggle going on
between darkness and light. He must make
life altering choices. In an early foreshadowing
scene Harry must decide if he should risk his
own life to save the despised Dudley, or leave
him to a horrific fate. The film builds from
there. You will not be disappointed.

                                                   David Bruce
It is this determined journey toward maturity
makes HP an epic story. And HP5 may be the
best of all the films so far. Cast and crew have
exceeded themselves.

DECEPTION VS DETERMINATION
FINDING TRUTH IN                         Prime, pink and proper, Harry's
 HARRY POTTER 5                          immediate problem is the new
                                         teacher, Miss Umbridge (Imelda
                                         Staunton). She wants to bring
                                         discipline to Hog-warts, but instead,
                                         she becomes the students' nightmare.
                                         She is a self righteous devil dressed
                                         pretty in pink.
                                         Miss Umbridge is deceptive.
                                         But Harry Is determined

                                         ―Success means having the courage,
                                         the determination, and the will to
                                         become the person you believe you
                                         were meant to be‖
                                         --George Sheehan

                                         ―People who indulge in the acts of
                                         deception and debauchery are devoid
                                         of success. ‖
  Society is only as free as its arts.
  Art is the voice of human freedom.     --Rig Veda

Art is a
LIFE CONNECTION IN                         Liberating Force
  HARRY POTTER 5

THE IMPORTANT INNER STRUGGLE
Harry is both a tormented adolescent
and a determined leader ready to do
battle for truth. He is in a struggle
outside and in.

“The last struggle for our rights, the
battle for our civilization, is entirely
with ourselves.”
--William Wells Brown

To Restrict Creativity is to Restrict
                                  the very Nature of the Creator

Determined and despite various hardships, JK Rowling
wrote her book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's
Stone.

The first three publishers she approached wouldn't even
talk to her. Rejected, but determined, she went to a
fourth publisher who accepted the manuscript for
publication.

The book was published and picked up in the USA,
where a movie deal was signed… Today, she is among
the wealthiest ,thanks to determination.

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