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Kinds of Orcs. Category page. For distinct variations or types of Orcs appearing in Middle-earth. B. Boldog. G. Gate-guards. H. Hobgoblins.
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Northern Orcs gathering at Gundabad; concept piece from The...
- Morannon Orcs
Mordor-orcs or Orcs of the Eye were the primary...
- Snaga (Orc Kind)
A Snaga was the lowest or lesser breed of Orc in the Third...
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- Overview
- Plot
- Cast
- Differences from the book
- Chapters
- Character omissions
- Trivia
- Differences between "Philosopher's Stone" and "Sorcerer's Stone" films
"Journey beyond your imagination."
— Official tagline
is a British-American fantasy film based on the first novel by J. K. Rowling, released on 16 November 2001. It is directed by Chris Columbus, written by Steve Kloves, and produced by David Heyman. The film stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, John Cleese, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Griffiths, Richard Harris, Ian Hart, John Hurt, Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, Maggie Smith, Sean Biggerstaff, Warwick Davis, Julie Walters, Zoë Wanamaker, David Bradley, and Tom Felton.
For the American, Indian, and Philippine release, just as was done with the book, the film was given the alternate title Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
On the night of 1 November 1981, celebrated wizard Albus Dumbledore (Richard Harris) and his deputy Minerva McGonagall (Maggie Smith) meet up on Privet Drive in the Surrey town Little Whinging and discuss of the deaths of James and Lily Potter (Adrian Rawlins and Geraldine Somerville), whose one-year-old son Harry Potter (Saunders Triplets) is to be brought to them by their half-giant associate Rubeus Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane). Sometime later, Hagrid arrives with the sleeping infant Harry on a flying motorcycle. As the three walk to the front lawn of Privet Drive house #4, McGonagall initially objects to Dumbledore leaving Harry with the Muggle (non-Magical) family that lives there known as the Dursleys, as she sees them as the "worst sort of Muggles" after spying on them day by day in her Animagus form (a silver tabby cat). Dumbledore tells her that the Dursleys are the only living relatives Harry has left since his mother's sister Petunia (Fiona Shaw) is the only Dursley that had Lily's blood in her which ensured the protection of Harry and his family. After Dumbledore places Harry on the doorstep with a letter, he wishes him luck before he, McGonagall, and Hagrid depart.
Ten years later, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) lives as a household servant to the Dursleys, who treat him with hostility and tries to be a seemingly ordinary boy, while trying to bear the brunt of his spoiled cousin Dudley's (Harry Melling) constant bullying. After inadvertently causing an accident on a family outing and receiving several unsolicited letters by owl, the family moves into a two-story hut on an island. When midnight strikes on Harry's eleventh birthday, a mysterious stranger breaks into the hut to the horror of the Dursleys. The stranger, who turns out to be Hagrid, meets Harry and informs him that he is a wizard. He gives Harry a birthday cake and his acceptance letter to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. When Harry's uncle Vernon tries to prevent him from going, Harry and Hagrid chastise him and Petunia for lying to him all along. After Vernon insults Dumbledore, Hagrid threatens him and Petunia for their actions by cursing Dudley with a pigtail, much to Harry's joy.
By morning, Hagrid takes Harry to purchase school supplies from the hidden wizarding street, Diagon Alley. After Harry purchases his wand, Hagrid surprises him with an owl as a birthday present. They stay in the Leaky Cauldron wherein Hagrid reveals the reason behind Harry's fame in the wizarding world; when Harry was still a baby, one of the century's greatest Dark wizards, Lord Voldemort, murdered his parents with the infamous Killing Curse, but his attack on Harry rebounded, leaving only a lightning-bolt scar on Harry's forehead and rendering Voldemort powerless. A few weeks later, Harry boards the train to Hogwarts via the concealed Platform 9 3/4 in King's Cross Station.
During the journey on the train, Harry meets Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint), a boy from a large, but poor, pure-blood wizarding family, and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson), a witch born to Muggle (non-magical) parents, who would both become Harry's lifelong best friends. Upon arriving at the school, the first year students are sorted into four houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. As Slytherin is noted for being the house of darker wizards and witches like Voldemort, Harry begs the magical Sorting Hat not to put him in Slytherin, so it instead puts him in Gryffindor, which is noted for being the house of braver witches and wizards like his parents, along with Ron and Hermione. Harry notices one professor, Severus Snape (Alan Rickman), the sinister Potions master and head of Slytherin House, giving him peculiar looks.
Harry begins learning wizardry and discovers more about his past and his parents. At the end of their first week at Hogwarts, Harry and Ron discover that Gringotts, the wizarding bank, was broken into and a vault that Harry and Hagrid visited had been the subject of the robbery. Harry discovers his talent for riding broomsticks and inadvertently makes Gryffindor's Quidditch team (a sport in the wizarding world involving flying broomsticks) as a Seeker while defending another Gryffindor student, Neville Longbottom (Matthew Lewis), from Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton), a Slytherin first year, later learning that his father was also on the team.
One night, Harry, Ron and Hermione encounter a giant three-headed dog named Fluffy belonging to Hagrid at the Forbidden Corridor on the Third Floor of the school. The team's keeper, Oliver Wood, trains Harry and orients him of Quidditch during one weekend.
The trio
•Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter •Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley •Emma Watson as Hermione Granger
Hogwarts staff
•Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid •Richard Harris as Albus Dumbledore •Ian Hart as Quirinus Quirrell •John Cleese as Nearly Headless Nick •Maggie Smith as Minerva McGonagall •Alan Rickman as Severus Snape •Zoë Wanamaker as Rolanda Hooch •Warwick Davis as Filius Flitwick •David Bradley as Argus Filch •Hazel Showham as Septima Vector (uncredited) •Unidentified actress as Aurora Sinistra (uncredited) •Unidentified actress as Oriental employee (uncredited) •Paul Marc Davis as Wizard teacher (uncredited) •Unidentified actress as Healer (uncredited) •Nigel Anstey as White-bearded attendant (uncredited)
Other Hogwarts denizens
•Nina Young as The Grey Lady •Simon Fisher-Becker as the Fat Friar •Terence Bayler as the Bloody Baron •Leslie Phillips as the Sorting Hat (voice) •Elizabeth Spriggs as the Fat Lady •Rik Mayall as Peeves the Poltergeist (cut from the film) (uncredited) •Adam Alderman as Ghost (uncredited) •Paul Marc Davis as Lord Draben (Ghost of Cavalier) (uncredited)
1. The Boy Who Lived
•The film begins with Harry's arrival at Privet Drive. As a result, everything that precedes this point in the novel is omitted in the film, which includes: •Vernon Dursley's day at Grunnings and his encounter with the wizards during his lunch break on the day before Harry arrived. •Vernon Dursley noticing Minerva McGonagall in her Animagus form earlier in the day, thinking she was reading a map. •The existence of Ted and Jim McGuffin. •At the start of the novel, Minerva McGonagall in her Animagus form had been observing Vernon Dursley prior to her meeting with Dumbledore and Hagrid. While this scene was omitted from the film, it was referenced when McGonagall voiced her objections in leaving Harry in the Dursley's care when she said she had "watched them all day". •In the film, when Albus Dumbledore leaves Harry Potter on the doorstep of the Dursleys' house, he says, "Good luck, Harry Potter." In the book, he just says, "Good luck, Harry." This is likely because of the aforementioned omissions.
2. The Vanishing Glass
•When Dudley counts the presents in the book, he says there are 36 and that is two less than last year, although Aunt Petunia then shows him the present he has missed out. In the film, it was Uncle Vernon who counted the presents, and while the count remains at 36, Dudley had 37 presents last year instead of 38. •In the book, the Dursleys and Harry are accompanied to the zoo by Dudley's friend Piers Polkiss. He is omitted in the film. •Due to Piers's omission, Vernon Dursley recognised that Harry was responsible for what happened to Dudley in the reptile house due to the smile on his face. In the novel, Piers saw Harry talk to the snake and reported to Vernon after the incident. •The Dursleys attempting to have Harry stay with Arabella Figg is omitted, as well as the mention of her having broken her leg and also the possibilities of Harry being watched by Vernon's sister, Marge who hates Harry and Petunia's friend, Yvonne who is on vacation in Majorca. •On a similar note, Dudley seems to be excited about Harry going to the zoo instead of sobbing and not wanting him to come like in the book, as he excitedly jumps on the stairs and shouts to Harry in his cupboard underneath "Wake up cousin, we’re going to the zoo!". •In the book, before going to the zoo, Vernon warns Harry that if any funny stuff happens he will be in the cupboard from then until Christmas. In the film, Vernon warns Harry that if any funny business happens, he won't have any meals for a week (although this happens in the book after the zoo incident, when Vernon says to Harry to go to his cupboard and stay there with no meals). •In the book, when the glass of the snake tank vanished, Dudley and Piers leapt backwards in horror and ran away as the snake escaped its captivity. In the film, when the glass vanished, Dudley fell into the tank and got trapped in there as the snake escaped, scaring everyone at the zoo. •In the book, the glass of the snake tank remains vanished. In the film it returns, trapping Dudley in the tank. •On a similar note, Vernon comes across as slightly angrier with Harry in the film to the extent of trying to violently interrogate him and then physically shoving the latter into the cupboard upon returning him due to deducing Harry's role in trapping Dudley (see below). •The Keeper of the reptile house who asks where the glass went is omitted from the film since the glass came back and trapped Dudley inside the tank. •Harry states in the second film that the snake at the zoo was a python (But there was a sign in the film saying 'Burmese Python'). The snake at the zoo is said to be from Burma. In the novel, it is a boa constrictor from Brazil, not a python from Burma. However, both the novel and the film reveal the snake was bred in captivity. •In the novel, the snake addressed Harry as "amigo" when thanking him for freeing it - presumably, a nod by JK Rowling to its South American ancestry as "amigo" means friend in Portuguese and Spanish. In the film, the snake simply says "thanks". •In the film, Vernon pulls Harry by the hair asking Harry what had happened; when Harry yells and explains, he is thrown into and locked in the cupboard by his uncle, who says to him through a small vent: "There's no such thing as magic!". This does not happen in the book, although Vernon orders Harry to remain in the cupboard with barely restrained rage.
3. The Letters From No One
•Dudley appears to know about magic, as he stares worriedly at Harry like his parents do when Harry gets his letter. In the books, Dudley does not know about magic when Harry gets his letter. •Harry does not get Dudley's second bedroom until the second film, with the latter film implying that the Dursleys supplied Harry with the room after his first year at Hogwarts. •The scene where Harry and the Dursleys go to a random hotel to get away from the letters was omitted from the film, so instead they went straight to the hut. •Because of this, Dudley's line of "Daddy's gone mad, hasn't he?!" was moved to immediately after Uncle Vernon declares that they are going to move far enough away to ensure that the owls can't find them. In the book, Dudley says this line only after Vernon pauses driving long enough to do a glance around to see if any owls are following them on a bridge. •The scene with Harry and the Dursleys using the rowboat of the toothless old man to get to the hut is omitted; Therefore, the old man is also omitted from the film, but he appears in concept artwork only.
1.Doorstep Delivery
2.The Vanishing Glass
3.The Letters From No One
4.The Keeper of Keys
5.Diagon Alley
6.Gringotts
•Peeves (Cut from final edit)
•Irma Pince
•Surrey milkman
•Rowboat owner (Appears in concept artwork only)
•Owner of the Railview Hotel
•Keeper of the reptile house
•When the film rights were sold and prior to production, J. K. Rowling initially wanted an all-British cast but instantly decided to allow the casting of Irish actors and actresses, thus creating a "strictly British and Irish cast" policy in order to remain faithful to the books. This meant that anyone, regardless of birthplace, can audition or take a role, as long as he/she is natural-born Irish or British.
•Richard Harris and Fiona Shaw are both Irish.
•Rosie O'Donnell, who is of Irish descent, asked for the role of Molly Weasley in the film without pay. The same was done by Robin Williams for the role of Rubeus Hagrid, having worked with director Chris Columbus on Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Nine Months (1995) and Bicentennial Man (1999). Columbus saw both American actors fit for the roles but had to reject them in order to adhere to Rowling's "strictly British and Irish cast" policy.
•Irish-American actor Liam Aiken was a contender for the role of Harry Potter, and was the first choice to play the character, being that he was of Irish-Scottish ancestry and heritage, being born in New York City to an Irish mother and an American father of Scots-Irish ancestry, and had previous work experience with Chris Columbus. While Rowling considered for a bit, she retained her stance that the part should be played by a British actor, which caused him to lose the role to Daniel Radcliffe.
•Some Americans were cast in specific roles:
•Zoë Wanamaker played Rolanda Hooch. Though she has made her name as a British actress, she was actually born in the United States to a Canadian mother and an American father of Russian Jewish heritage, but grew up in Britain and formally became a British citizen in 2000.
•Five different takes were necessary to replace the words Philosopher's Stone with Sorcerer's Stone in the American version of the film. When the two DVDs were compared side by side it was noticed that in every case but one, only a slight difference in synchronisation was noticed. The most noticeable difference was when Hermione was reading from th...
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