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Harry potter and the chamber of secrets

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a 2002 fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus and
distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.[3] It is based on J. K. Rowling's 1998 novel of the same
name. The film is a sequel to the 2001 film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and the
second instalment in the Harry Potter film series. It was written by Steve Kloves and produced
by David Heyman.
Directed by :
 Chris Columbus
Produced by :
 David Heyman
Screenplay by:
 Steve Kloves
Based on Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
by J. K. Rowling
Starring:
 Daniel Radcliffe
 Rupert Grint
 Emma Watson
 Kenneth Branagh
 John Cleese
 Robbie Coltrane
 Warwick Davis
 Richard Griffiths
 Richard Harris
 Jason Isaacs
 Alan Rickman
 Fiona Shaw
 Maggie Smith
 Julie Walters
Music by :
 John Williams
Cinematography:
  Roger Pratt
Edited by:
 Peter Honess
Production Companies:
 Warner Bros. Pictures
 Heyday Films 1492 Pictures
Distributed by :
 Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date :
-3 November 2002 (Odeon Leicester Square)
-15 November 2002 (United Kingdom and United States)
Running time:
161 minutes[2]
Country:
 United Kingdom
 United States
Language:
 English
Budget :
 $100 million Box office
 $879.2 million
The film was released in theatres in the United Kingdom and the United States on 15 November
2002. It became a critical and commercial success, grossing $879 million at the box office
worldwide. It was the second highest-grossing film of 2002 behind The Lord of the Rings: The
Two Towers. The movie was nominated for many awards including the BAFTA Award for Best
Production Design, Best Sound, and Best Special Visual Effects. It was followed by six sequels,
beginning with Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in 2004 and ending with Harry Potter
and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 in 2011, nearly ten years after the first film's release.
Synopsis:
Harry Potter spends the summer with The Dursleys without receiving letters from his Hogwarts
friends. In his room, Harry meets Dobby, a house-elf who warns him of a peril that will take
shape if he returns to Hogwarts. Dobby reveals that he intercepted his friends' letters, and
destroys a cake in order to prevent his return to school. The Dursleys lock Harry up, but Ron
Weasley and his older twin brothers, Fred and George, rescue him in their father's flying Ford
Anglia.
While purchasing school supplies, Harry and the Weasley family encounter Rubeus Hagrid and
Hermione Granger. They attend a book-signing by celebrity wizard Gilderoy Lockhart, who
announces that he will be the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. During a small
confrontation with Draco Malfoy, Harry meets Malfoy's father, Lucius, who discreetly slips a
book into Ginny Weasley's belongings, which only Harry notices, but he mentions this to no one.
When Harry and Ron are blocked from entering Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, they fly to
Hogwarts in the flying car. They crash into the Whomping Willow upon arrival, and Ron's wand
is broken. Both boys narrowly avoid expulsion when Professor McGonagall gives them
detention.
During the detention, Harry hears strange voices and later finds caretaker Argus Filch's cat, Mrs.
Norris, petrified, along with a message written in blood announcing "the Chamber of Secrets has
been opened, enemies of the heir... beware". McGonagall explains that one of Hogwarts'
founders, Salazar Slytherin, supposedly constructed a secret Chamber. He placed a monster
inside that only his Heir can control, capable of purging the school of muggle-born students.
Harry and Ron suspect Malfoy as the Heir, so Hermione suggests they question him while
disguised using the forbidden polyjuice potion. They utilise a disused bathroom haunted by a
ghost, Moaning Myrtle, as their makeshift laboratory to brew the potion.
During a Quidditch game, Harry’s arm is broken by a Bludger and then he is visited by Dobby in
the infirmary and he tells Harry that he was the one who closed the portal to Platform 9 3/4 and
he was also the one who made the Bludger chase after Harry, in an attempt to get Harry to leave
the school. When Harry communicates with a snake, the school believes he is the Heir. On
Christmas Day, Harry and Ron learn that Malfoy is not the Heir, but Malfoy mentions his father
told him that a muggle-born girl died when the Chamber was last opened fifty years ago. Harry
finds an enchanted diary owned by former Hogwarts student Tom Riddle, which contains a
flashback fifty years prior where Riddle accused Hagrid, then a student, of opening the Chamber.
When the diary is stolen and Hermione is petrified, Harry and Ron question Hagrid. Professor
Dumbledore, Cornelius Fudge, and Lucius come to take Hagrid to Azkaban, but he discreetly
tells the boys to "follow the spiders". In the Forbidden Forest, Harry and Ron meet Hagrid's giant
pet spider, Aragog, who reveals Hagrid's innocence and provides them a small clue about the
Chamber's monster.
A book page in Hermione's hand identifies the monster as a basilisk, a giant serpent that instantly
kills those that make direct eye contact with it; the petrified victims only saw it indirectly. The
school staff learn that Ginny was taken into the Chamber, and convince Lockhart to save her.
Harry and Ron find Lockhart, exposed as a fraud, planning to flee; knowing Myrtle was the girl
the Basilisk killed, they take him to the bathroom and find the Chamber's entrance. Once inside,
Lockhart uses Ron's broken wand against them, but it backfires, wipes his memory, and causes a
cave-in.
Harry enters the Chamber alone and finds Ginny unconscious, guarded by Riddle. Riddle reveals
that he used the diary to manipulate Ginny and reopen the Chamber. When Riddle creates the
anagram for his future new identity, "I am Lord Voldemort", Harry realises that Riddle himself is
Slytherin's heir and Voldemort's true identity. After Harry expresses support for Dumbledore,
Fawkes flies in with the Sorting Hat, causing Riddle to summon the Basilisk. Fawkes blinds the
Basilisk, allowing Harry to look at it directly without being killed or petrified. The Sorting Hat
eventually produces the Sword of Gryffindor, with which Harry battles and slays the Basilisk,
though he is injured by one of its fangs.
Harry defeats Riddle and revives Ginny by stabbing the diary with the basilisk fang. Fawkes's
tears heal him, and he returns to Hogwarts with his friends and a baffled Lockhart. Dumbledore
praises them and orders Hagrid's release. Dumbledore shows Harry the sword he wielded was
Godric Gryffindor's own sword, and says he is different from Voldemort because he chose
Gryffindor instead of Slytherin. Harry accuses Lucius, Dobby's master, of planting the diary in
Ginny's cauldron, and tricks him into freeing Dobby. The Basilisk's victims are healed,
Hermione reunites with Harry and Ron, and Hagrid is released from Azkaban.
The superiority of this film :
1. The story is understanable for the children
2. A fictitious novel with this magical theme, leading the reader to join the imaginary world,
being asked to evoke the imagination.
3. Presentation of the intriguing grooves, in which each phase of the film will arouse the readers
curiosity to watch the next of the film.
4. J.K.Rowling also uses a very easily understood language .so, the viewers can easly understand
the meaning of the story line.
5. This film also have a good words of wisdom that are teach us moral value of the story .
The example is: It's our choices that show who we truly are far more than our abilities.
The weakness of this film :
1.Readers should watch the first film before watch this second film ,because the viewer
would get confused with some characters and places If they are not watch the previous
film.
The cunclusion : Harry potter and the chamber of secret have a good story line, understanable
story.in modern era harry potter still appropriate watched by all of ages. Beside of that,we as
the viewer can learn a lot of moral value from it’s film,even though harry doesn’t have parents
but he keep on his spirit to learn something new,dare to take risks,sacrifice himself for
others,sincere in friendship,cooperation to unravel the mystery and etc,and also from the other
actor like Hermione we can take some conclusion that we should study diligently,so with all the
knowledge that we have maybe can help us in some difficult situation in the future,like in the
movie, Harry potter greatly helped by the knowledge possessed by Hermione.