哈利·波特与火焰杯

《哈里波特》到现在已经写了六本，一本比一本厚，电影也拍了四集，一集比一集阴森。对于哈里波特的小粉丝们而言，看书需要越来越大的臂力，也越来越需要胆子。照这个劲头拍下去，第六集应该列为恐怖片级别了。说到格调阴冷，不能全怨导演，书里写得也是这个调子。随着越来越多的成人读者和观众加入波特的粉丝群，原书作者也有心照顾成人读者，波特渐渐长大（在电影里长得尤其快），故事也成人化了。
波特身上多了一些复杂气质，在书的前半段被当成Cheater遭到嘲笑和误解，又加上好友Ron的鄙视，书里写得阴郁沉闷，而电影里一带而过，几乎看不出波特内心的郁闷和恼怒；后半段隐隐约约地揭示波特与Voldmort的复杂关系，远不只是英雄和坏蛋的关系。但是电影里表现得也过于简单。所以说来，电影表现出的阴冷格调只是表面上的，人物仍然显得过于简单化，可能导演是照顾到小观众的理解能力吧，只是挑战一下他们的胆量而非智力。书的阴冷则布满字里行间，两相比较，我更喜欢书，相信小朋友们也是如此。
情节的剪辑大有问题。前面的Quidditch世界杯赛拍得太简单，删掉了可爱的Dobby，对魔法部里官员与伏地魔的关系也没有交待，没有看过书的人也根本不知道什么叫Death Eater。后面跳舞的那段又太罗嗦，可能是因为导演认为这里有波特为数不多的感情戏吧？幸亏小演员演得不错，否则这一段毫无可观之处。其实在我看来，书里暗含的主线就是魔法部体育司的官员Croutch和他儿子及伏地魔的关系以及正邪两派的恩恩怨怨。这个电影也是潦草带过，可惜可惜。
对于波特迷来说，电影里的可观之处也还算不少，例如两个魔法学校的交通工具极为夺目，那条龙也不错。湖底世界在书里阴森可怕，在电影里却明亮得很，那些Merpeople电脑作得太糙。最后那场迷宫赛也太不过瘾，迷宫里安放的各种怪物都一概被删掉了，而最让人不解的是在迷宫的奖杯前，波特和Cederic的关系给改掉了，把书里表现的那种君子之风都搞没了，从教育意义上来说也改得不好。
总的来说，仅靠拍壮观景象来吸引波特迷越来越难了，前四集里大家已经“见多识广”，不会再满足于看看龙和凤凰之类的东东了。我建议导演就按成人片拍得了，反正现在的小孩子们也见多识广，爱打听大人的事，爱说大人话，不爱童话了。

This fourth installment of the movie series is entirely about the Triwizard Tournament. Three finalists were chosen by the Goblet of Fire, and then the Goblet spit out an unprecedented fourth name: Harry Potter's. This is against the rules, since you have to be 16 to compete in Triwizardry, and Harry is only 14. The question is, who entered Harry's name, since Harry said he didn't?

"The Goblet of Fire" is my favorite Potter book so far in the series. (Well, I'm still reading "The Half Blood Prince" so that might change soon) If you think the 3rd book was dark, this one only gets darker. So I'm going to be biased about this movie and say I liked it a lot! It's always a pleasure to look at the characters and plots that you love so much to transform onto the big screen. Harry, Ron and Hermione have grown up. Cedric Diggory and Victor Krum looked exactly like what I imagined they would be. Cho Chang only had a few lines in this movie, but I'm sure we all know how much people already love her. I was a bit disappointed at the actress they cast for Fleur Delacour. She's supposed to be this stunning beauty that can take your breath away, but in the movie she was actually kind of bland.

The special effects, settings and costumes were excellent as usual. The dragons, the mermaids and the maze were really cool looking. I liked the look of "The Prisoner of Azkaban" better, but this is still better than the "The Sorcerer's Stone" and "The Chamber of Secrets". Nothing against Chris Columbus, I just don't think he's the right director for these kind of movies.

Onto the problems with this film. Since this book was so much longer than the previous ones, there were way too many subplots that were left out of this movie. I know it's difficult to fit everything into a 2 hour movie, but it's still disappointing. Whatever happened to the whole house elves action stirred up by Hermione? What happened to the butterfly turning Rita Skeeter? Most importantly, where the heck is the last pivotal scene in the book where Dumbledore starts to gather his group which will later become the Order of Phoenix?! I feel that for people who have not read the books, this movie will be really confusing. It didn't really explain a lot of the backstories and characters. Thus I'm not surprised when my friends who did not read the book all told me they didn't think this movie was all that great. This film did a great job of transforming scenes from the book onto the big screen, but storytelling wise, it was scattered and confusing.

So, if you want to truely enjoy this movie, I'll definitely recommend reading the book first before you go. Trust me, it'll be well worth your time.

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1.“哈瑞……哈瑞……”配角们急赤白脸的大声呼喊着身陷险境但仍然做身不由己沉思状的主角。这是《哈利

·波特》系列特别有特点的场景。是否应当把“Harry Potter”改名为“Hurry Up”？！

2.同一个导演，但我觉得这个“三场比赛和一个圈套”外加“三点浪漫和一片黑暗”的电影并不比《四个婚礼

和一个葬礼》出色。导演这次不得不玩特技，虽然为了情节的发展，很多理应更绚烂的特技施展情节（比如魁

地奇世界杯赛）都被舍弃了，但故事线索太多，留给导演展示其情感特长的时间依然不够。

3.有些情节的一代而过是不应该的，四人斗龙本就应拍的异彩纷呈。前三个勇士斗得越辛苦，才更能显示Harry

赢的巧妙。可惜前三者连一个战龙的镜头都没有，Harry还因为不够Hurry而差点死在恶龙手里。

4.对于哈利三场比赛的对手的描述少到不能再少的地步，芙蓉、大壮和帅哥，就如同那“凭空飞来的马车空姐

”和“汹涌而出的战船海军”，养眼，但不明所以。

5.好一锅“十全大骨汤”，伏地魔凭此次诡异重生。我很少看恐怖片，所以不得不承认，我被有关伏地魔的一

些场景吓到了。建议小孩子不要去看。

6.当然，片中一些小打小闹的幽默效果不错，这一点不容怀疑。而且，特技出色，绝对华丽的出色！这是现代

大片必备要素，是这个电影最大的优点，也是需走进电影院的最大原因。

1.邓布利多的睿智呢？火焰杯第四次吐出名字时他表现得真怕死，还用手挡着脸……最后还冲到哈利面前使劲抓着他问是什么回事，光是要混淆火焰杯吐出四个名字哈利就做不到了，难道他想不到，还要穆迪提醒？
2.塞德里克的阳光呢？最后两天了才告诉哈利去洗澡，早干嘛去了（为了成功，我才不信穆迪会等到最后才告诉塞德里克）？都最后两天了他怎么知道哈利就没有解开谜底？他是在偷听哈利和赫敏对话吗？说得不清不楚还不如不说（比书里更不清楚— —！）。而且在迷宫里，刚打倒克鲁姆，就趁乱把哈利推开去找火焰杯，转换如此之快，最后还叫哈利救他……
3.纳威的鳃囊草是哪里来的？斯内普说鳃囊草很难得，纳威是在比赛开始前凭空变出来的吗？还是说他偷的？还是除斯内普外还有其他人有珍藏？凭纳威能办成这件事吗？如果书里没有设定穆迪给纳威那本书，导演和编剧能想到这样改编么？

说真的，都不知道是导演和编剧的问题还是演员的问题了……
还有其他细节，我就不一一说了……

最后，仅以此图纪念本该有重要戏份的多比和闪闪……