The Harry Potter 5 movie is based on the longest of the 7 books, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The fight scenes in this fifth series is quite breathtaking, but it made a lot of Harry Potter fans sad since one of the favorite characters and Harry’s uncle, Sirius Black, was killed by his notorious cousin Bellatrix Lestrange during one of the battles. Even before its actual showing, fans could not wait to get a glimpse of this fantastic film. Just as with many other films, some interesting but fun facts could be collected, ones that aren’t in every Harry Potter review.
In the case of the Harry Potter 5 movie, you may find several facts quite interesting. Lone example of this is the fact that the carpet used in the room of Professor Umbridge cost a good 50,000 pounds, an amount too big for a simple carpet for a prop. As expected with Warner Brother’s, however, amounts like this will not be a big deal just to make sure that the movie will look great. It would also be interesting to know that more than 15,000 young ladies tried for the role of Luna Lovegood while only 3,000 auditioned for Cho Chang’s part. Seems that more would want to look like the weird Luna than be Harry’s love interest. Evanna Lynch got the role. Another trivia in this movie is the use, for the first time, of the Image Metrics technology, particularly on the role of Hagrid’s half-brother, Grawp.
The Harry Potter 5 movie still has a lot of other behind the scenes facts that you may find interesting. July 2007 is special for Harry Potter makers since it is on the same month and year that the fifth movie and the sixth book were released. Such simultaneous activities for Harry Potter fans would be quite unprecedented given the past records wherein they always had to wait for some time for the next book or movie to come out. Another interesting thing about this 5th movie is that while it is based on the longest of the seven books, it is nevertheless the shortest Harry Potter movie made at 2 hours 18 minutes. Lastly, it would be quite interesting to know that the three main protagonists in the movie, Harry, Hermione and Ron, had their hands, feet as well as their wands imprinted on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, immortalizing them two days before the movie was released.
