Back to “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”, the third part of the magical saga, in which a not very discreet error is hidden…
Directed by Alfonso Cuaron in 2004, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, third part of the famous magic saga adapted from the work of JK Rowling, tells the new year of the young wizard at Hogwarts school, while a mysterious escaped from prison seems to want to find him at all costs.
Despite its many screenplay and visual qualities, the film has some small gaffes and errors, as is usually the case for a production of such magnitude. So many details that did not go unnoticed by Michel and Michel, our Faux Fitting experts.
Towards the end of the feature film, for example, during the sequence where Harry and Hermione try to organize the escape of the hippogriff Buck near Hagrid’s house, did you take a good look at the back of their t-shirts?
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If you take a freeze frame at 1 hour, 52 minutes and 56 seconds (for Hermione) then at 1 hour and 53 minutes (for Harry), you will be able to see that we can very clearly distinguish the batteries of their microphones, hidden under their clothes. A device (not very discreet) which nevertheless allowed Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson to shoot the scene without the sound engineers needing to use a pole.
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Moreover, by viewing the sequence in its entirety, we can see that the famous batteries are visible only on the shots where the two actors talk to each other, and disappear on those where they remain silent. The scene was therefore most likely shot once with the sound recording, and a second time without the microphones.
This amusing little error, which slightly disturbs the magic of cinema for a short time, is not the only one hiding in the film. Indeed, to catch a glimpse of Alan Rickman’s understudy, a huge microphone reflection in the Lupin’s classroom or even the mysterious appearance of a number on the screen, (re)discover our False Fitting dedicated to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban…