Top 10 ODDEST Casting Calls In Harry Potter Movies
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Today Ben dives into the Wizarding World of Harry Potter to break down ten of the oddest casting calls made in the Harry Potter movies.
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You should do a video of what each horcrox life emotion is. I already did what I think they are
Done and done
Also bring the hair back
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The weirdest casting call was Hermione as Ron...in many scenes.
HONESTLY
Yes! I will never forgive them for having Hermione say, "If you want to kill Harry, you'll have to kill us too!" Ron said that, while struggling to stand on a BROKEN LEG, to the person who had just done the breaking of said leg. You know, the person they all thought was a mass murderer? That takes guts. Why they thought giving that line to Hermione would somehow be better, I'll never know
@@catherinewolf1103 The screenwriter is on record (somewhere, IDK where) saying that Hermione was his favorite character, so he basically gave all the best lines to her.
@@jb888888888 oh…..
@@jb888888888 also it makes hermione a better role model for little girls
Fenrir Greyback: The directors keep giving all my material to another actor!
Ron: First time, huh?
LOL Exactly!!!! Underrated comment!
I think the guy playing fenrir probably wasn't a strong actor. Or the studio owed that guy something
@@toonmili03 then recast Fenrir. Discount Captain Jack Sparrow just doesn't make sense.
@@Lillith. yea, who cares about scabior
Dobby:Dobby says to please hold Dobby’s sock
Love how Bem just appears and talks about death and then disappears.
Man is a mood.
Harry's parents being so old in all the scenes where they are grownups really bothered me, I mean they were 21 when they were killed. Also Harry's dad looking nothing like him except for the glasses. I mean Harry was supposed to be his spitting image. Come on.
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Agree 100%. I wonder why they made everyone so much older. Sirius, Lupin, Pettigrew, and Snape would have been about 31-32 at the start, if it's 11 years after Harry was born. Shouldn't James and Lilly have looked 21? I can't imagine Snape without Alan Rickman, but he was in his 60's.
And the eyes thing! There was so much symbolism in the red and the green for one thing. Okay, Daniel couldn't do the contacts; but then at least Lilly should have had blue eyes, or blue contacts.
They were really so sloppy with so many details (and non-details). I've never before heard of a character just looking completely different, or acting completely differently. I love the movies, but they had to grow on me. They must be super confusing to people who don't know the books.
@UchihaTV that I can overlook, I think they even tried green contacts on him but it didn't work very well
@UchihaTV They did try to give Dan green contacts but he had an allergic reaction. Though I still don't understand why they didn't just give the actress blue contacts so they'd at least match
@@anne-marie8018 They were all older because they really wanted Alan Rickman to play Snape
Honestly when I watched prisoner I thought that Tom was a completely different character. It never clicked until this video that that was supposed to be Tom the bar man... I thought he was just some buffoon assistant to the minister that they added in for poor comic relief.
He was a completely different depiction from the first Tom in the philosopher's stone.
And the fact that Tom is basically appointed to be Harry's guardian for almost a month after he leaves the Dursleys' early. Like the idea of just leaving a thirteen year old in a hotel with only a caricature of creepiness to watch out for him is weird.
Same here. I'm glad I wasn't the only one.
Right? I just thought he was one of his workers who probably didn't get paid very much
Same! When Ben says that he was Tom the Barman I was like "what???"
Question for the brothers. If harry would be kiss by a dementor, would Harry's soul just be taken leaving Voldemort to take over harry body, or could Voldemort soul be taken out of harry (aka Destroying the horcrux), or do you think both soul would be ripped out?
This needs more likes so they can see!
This would be a great video!!!!
Oooh, very interesting idea
Bump city
I never thought of that - great idea!
The whole issue with Christian Coulson being “too old” to play teenage Tom again isn’t a good enough reason for me. I mean, Shirley Henderson who played Moaning Myrtle was in her mid-thirties at the time of filming
Plus, with the amount of editing in Slughorn’s memories, they could have EASILY softened any “fine lines” or “wrinkles” Christian would have had at 29
My theory is that the casting directors didn’t want such an attractive teenage dark lord, cause Christian? 👌🏼💯 (No slight to Frank Dillane, of course) because they wanted people to root for the good guys
Cause let’s be honest, Christian as teenage Voldy was the superior Voldy. Charming, handsome, and charismatic, as depicted in the books? ✅ ✅ ✅
Agree. A charismatic Voldemort would have made a better movie. Let people see why he had followers, and that they weren't necessarily blind. You can't see charisma in a book. It was a missed opportunity.
If they put the hookey the house elf bit where he sees the cup and locket and him visiting Morfin before killing his father in the movie he could have shown up then they still would have said the issues of to why he wasn't shown at 16 would be he aged out of a teenager but I still wouldn't buy that did any one who didn't read the book know he was 16 when he asked Slughorn what Horcruxes were bc i wouldn't have
I think they recast him because they needed someone with more of a resemblance to 11 year old Tom (Ralph Fiennes' nephew). The two flashback Toms really look a lot alike in Half Blood Prince.
It's funny cause I never even realized the difference in teenage Tom. I don't know how I never noticed that.
Yeah … charming , handsome and charismatic….you mean like young Voldemort !? That reason was ridiculous ! Frank did a good job being creepy and all …but Christian was on another level ! Also …consistency …we very much knew Christian as 17 year old Tom Riddle !
"I have a question: is lavender brown like two separate colors, or is lavender describing what shade of brown we're dealing, like it's a lavendery-brown"
Ben asking the important questions here loll
Meanwhile, I'm still salty that they didn't add peeves so that we could have the "it goes the other way" chandelier scene.
That would have been epic!
@@SuperCarlinBrothers would’ve could’ve should’ve
@Chloe Xi He was in the video games, though! So that's pretty cool!
I usually say I am glad Peeves isn't in the movies, but it would be so worth it to have him in there just for that one scene.
Ditto. Especially as they had cast Rik Mayall for this
Bem also switched houses between movies, he's later seen as a Ravenclaw
I thought he was supposed to be Terry Boot or some other Ravenclaw and thought he had the wrong tie.
@@tcshack701 no Terry is white, and he prefers to be called Terrence. Plus, Bem is cool and seems nice. Terrence was a bigger a hole than McLaggen.
@@Skyesbeautifuldream Do you watch Lost in Adaptation?
@@tcshack701 sounds like it :P
If I remember correctly, the kid playing Bem made it pretty far on the X-Factor too
I like the headcanon that flitwick used a spell that went wrong which is why he was aged up for a few years, but then the spell wears off and he’s back to his normal super cool looking self. 👍
My headcanon is the opposite. Something triggers a midlife crisis (possibly a relationship has ended) and Flitwick takes to charming his hair every morning.
Ha!
In the book, he's described as a "tiny wizard with puffy white hair".
Sounds like movie 1 and 2 Flitwick to me.
The thing with Flitwick, is I didn't know it was the same actor throughout until recently. But I always assumed it was Flitwick, it was the same movie that recast Dumbledore and gave him a drastic redesign.
Why would you not watch the credits
@@knightoftheislandcounter3330 Whi watches the credits?
Let's be clear though - the Dumbledore recast was only because Richard Harris died.
Does anyone ever talk about how for the first two movies the wands were just bland sticks (besides Ron's) and how stylized wands weren't a thing until Prisoner of Azkaban
Or the hats...the hats!
@@Joseph_Roffey I think you replied to the wrong comment lol
@@brokenwand379 guess so 😅
Lucius Malfoy had a stylized wand in CoS from what I remember
Yeah I’ve always noticed this! One thing that fascinates me is that the elder wand (dumbledore’s) was designed and made BEFORE anybody knew that it was the elder wand 🤯 It’s crazy to think about it because the elder wands design fits so well being the greatest wand in existence. Imagine they made Dumbledore’s wand plain and simple, that would’ve been pretty boring.
I mean, Daniel could come back as James. That would be an amazing Easter egg
Except that he is already too old to be James
And Bonnie Wright comes back as Lily
@@IdaSantti He looks younger then the guy they had playing james the first time...
@@zistheword I know, but since Ben said Dan could be age appropriate Snape, it means he is at least ten years too old to be age appropriate James 😅 It's just a sad reminder that James and Lily were REALLY young when they died
@@IdaSantti
Daniel was always older than Harry anyway and they had to age him in the prologue, not to mention anti ageing techniques, both makeup and computer, are at a point where you wouldn't know the difference.
Also being that we only see James in memory, a mirror and as a semi ghost form, there's enough reasons to make the memories seem "hazey" hiding the age.
The mirror and when he comes out of the wand and rock, make the character seem ethereal, again hiding that age.
I'm otherwords, there loads of things they can do to make it work and as James isn't exactly a main or side character, his rare appearances would be cool if played by Daniel.
But this is one man's veiw and I don't expect everyone to like it
I’m not sure if it’s the high school pictures of J and Ben, all the glow ups from the cast, or the fact I was laughing through half the video but this is one of my favorite SCB videos
When I was little, I asked my mom why Flitwick changed looks and she said it was because he was the charms teacher and could just magically alter his appearance. For whatever reason.
Chamber of Secrets Tom really could sell turning to the dark side lol
My mom has only ever watched the movies and to this day she still doesn't fully understand what Voldemort was trying to do or what is going on at all in year six .
So have I and I know lol.
honestly neither do i-
year six was crazy
I've read the books multiple times and I still hardly understand the movies
Amd what about 4th movie? There is this random shot of dead bofy of Barty Crouch, without any explonation what so ever? That have to be confusing for non-book audience
Agree - I remember coming out of the cinema for Film 6 & turning to my non-book-reading family & asking "Do you know what horcruxes are?" "Nope" was the reply.
SCB: impressed by HP casting
HP casting:
- all the adults are too old for their roles
- Lily and James are too old for when they died
- Harry and Lily do not have the same eyes
- Snape is waaaaay too attractive
With the Marauders they had to cast in the ballpark of Rickman so they were pretty stuck. If Remus, Sirius and Peter looked 33 like they were supposed to Snape would have looked like their dad. I LOVE Rickman’s Snape but he’s also the reason why the Marauders are much too old.
1. The eyes thing is an editing fail, not a casting one,
2. They just said some of the casting was spot on, not all.
3. More of question, was Snape ever specifically mentioned as being ugly? cause I can't remember.
@@Ramblinman26 I mean, I don't think Rowling ever comes out and uses the word ugly, but his description of greasy hair, pale skin, and bat like aura don't appeal to most as attractive. I always pictured someone more like Wormtongue from LOTR as what Snape would look like
As for the last one, I think that's just you.
Actually Goyle replaced Crabbe because Jamie Waylett was arrested for growing pot. The London riots took place after The Deathly Hallows Part two was released.
I though he stabbed someone
Nothing more magical than a drug bust. Lol
@@AirQuotes You're confusing that with Marcus Belby's actor, Robert Knox, belong stabbed to death outside a nightclub a few weeks before the Half-Blood Prince premiere when he intervened to protect his little brother who was about to get into a fight with someone.
And Blaise Zabini, who had no known affiliation with the Death Eaters in the books (he was just simply a student who happened to be in Slytherin), was shoehorned into that scene and just ended up taking the place of Goyle.
“Now let me explain to you how to do the darkest magic I’ve ever heard of” had me cackling
I personally felt like Peeves and Ludo Bagman could've been cast better. Like at all
Technically Peeves was cast and even shot a few scenes, but apparently he was so funny the children kept laughing on the scenes and it was hard to shoot. In the end they scrapped those scenes and Peeves was never added to the final movie.
exactly hahahahaha
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@@kiminimuchu__ Elizabeth!!!!
@@LaneWinn WOAH. Small world
I have only watched the movies and I can say I thought there was so much random stuff happening in the movie that I feel was never explained. Things like Harry and Ginny's relationship came so suddenly, and as mentioned in the beginning of the video I have/had no idea Voldemort had logic in choosing the horocrux items they just seemed completely random. There are more stuff I just did not understand after having watched the movies but I'm watching tons of these videos now which has made me realise how much I missed.
What about reading the books..?
Ginny showed interest in Harry in (first of all Chamber of Secrets) multiple moments in Order of the Phoenix, and so their relationship was even more out-of-left-field in the books. The artefacts, whilst interesting, aren't incredibly important, and the filmmakers made the films with the idea that those watching them had prior knowledge from the books.
@@jessica7263 But I mean, that would have to require... ya know...reading lol (I'm kidding I've read all the books myself many times)
Man, an HBO harry potter series where each book is 5-10 hour long episodes, and each season faithfully follows the books and only adds to it rather than taking away for budget or time constraints would be super RAD
The irony with Colin Creevey is that the actor who played him literally played the voice role and provided the appearance of Colin Creevey in the video game for Order of the Phoenix, as well as several other of the actors. Just strange that they didn't have him in the films again.
was he maybe occupied during the time of the filming with something else? Or declined it himself?
@@6666Imperator No, apparently they just didn't ask him. They didn't ask several others of the actors who played students such as Ernie MacMillion or Hannah Abbot either, though their actors were in the game as well. Just kind of weird.
@@robertgronewold3326 yeah true...I mean there might be reasons they wouldn't want to make public but indeed watching the video some decisions defintely were strange
Apparently he hit puberty hard and looked like a different person. And being that Colin wasn't super important in the 3rd book and was only briefly mentioned in the 4th, I can get why they didn't want to bring him back in the 5th and have people be like, who's this. I would have been okay with it.
I honestly thought Nigel was Colin Creevey
I miss original flitwick. Warwick Davis is awesome! Also the Weasley twins. James and Oliver Phelps are incarnates. Perfect casting. Fond memories of the interview where they said they met at the audition for the first time.
I feel like Alfonso Cuaron gets way too much of a free pass for just blatantly ignoring established details about the magical world in TPOA. The very worst has to be the kids wearing MUGGLE CLOTHING AT HOGWARTS.
@@nahor88 I agree, Prisoner of Askaban is a very good "young adult" movie, but it really strays very far from the Harry Potter vibe. Personally, I never liked the talking shrunken head, though I seem to be in the minority about that.
@@glittery_cucumber no, it’s kinda racist, I hated the shrunken head.. what was even the point of it?
@@glittery_cucumber Never liked them either. i pictured the Knight Bus funny not creepy in any way. And the jokes of the shrunken head are not funny either.
Possibly controversially I enjoyed Michael Gambon being cast as Dumbledore, while I loved Richard Harris in the first two, Gambon was just more of a grounded version that was needed for the later movies when we learn Dumbledore is more flawed than first appeared and I actually think going from this wise old perfect grandfather to a flawed elder with a poor temper works better than people give credit for
100%. Mr. Harris was perfect for Dumbledore as the wise old elder that Harry could look up to as a grandfatherly figure. Mr. Gambon was perfect for Dumbledore as the man with many dark secrets.
I prefer Michael Gambon over Richard Harris. He just shows more emotion while Harris seems like he’ll fall asleep any moment.
The whole thing regarding Flitwick I always found super weird and to this day, even though they openly acknowledge that this new, darker haired made over Warwick Davis is Flitwick it always makes me second guess myself. But the teaching choir didn't actually bother me nearly as much because in one of the very first scenes we meet him in, he's going on about the importance of proper pronunciation and that just feels like a super on brand thing for a choir director to do.
This is a topic I have never considered, but now I'm intrigued. Then again, SCB could make anything interesting.
This is true. I never thought of Harry Potter like any of these theories.
You could take this comment word for word and put it in any of their videos and it would apply
Agree. They do so well-thought-out videos!
I honestly agree on all counts here. There isn’t a video I don’t like regardless of the content. I’m pretty sure SCB could make a video on the history of hot wheels and make it as intriguing as their Pixar theory videos. FIGHT ME!!!!
Hey brother: today we’re going to be discussing, Ron’s socks
i always joke that bem is my favorite character cause its just so random that hes there and its hilarious but now that i know his name i might upgrade him to actually being my favorite
It always bothers me when an actor is cast who bluntly admits that they 1) didn't read the source material, 2) not even after they were cast, 3) and won't read it. We adore actors who go all-out researching and putting so much effort into showing how devoted they are to a role (turnip earrings!!!) but then... when they unashamedly disregard hundreds of pages of characterization and reasoning and huge cues ("he said calmly", anyone?) it really rubs me the wrong way. So ya, that's one recasting that could've gone better :/
Indeed. That's one of the reasons I didn't watch the movies after Prisoner
I would be more concerned about a director who admits that. You can’t expect every actor to be as passionate about their character as you are, which also leads to method acting which is horrible. Don’t be upset with Michael Gambon for goblet of fire. Be upset with David Yates.
I'm comfortable being annoyed with both of them, lol. And with whomever else was involved in the casting. But a low-level annoyed, not with any real malice behind it, just a frustration that after NAILING the character they went on the butcher it (hard agree on your method acting comment!). Everyone who's putting time, energy, and effort into a project, while maybe not being passionate about it to the same extent, should be giving their best performance to date - and part of that is putting work into understanding who they're portraying. Actors don't exist in vacuums, so it's true they can't take all the credit/blame for their decisions, but they're the face consumers recognize so you'd think they'd proceed with more consideration rather than less.
Yep they should have tried harder to get Gandalf
@@edopronk1303 I won't watch again the movies after Chamber of Secrets. Prisoner is the one I hate the most!
Tbh the time has come for a tv show....
I'm ready. I read the books, I queued outside book stores at midnight to get the newest, I loved the films but as a 30yr old, I dont really enjoy the films anymore.
I'm ready for a tv show which can dive deeper into the story:)
I wanna see it animated though, so nobody can complain about who they cast cause looks are wrong. Plus it would be cool to keep it separated from the film. Just think how great the effects can be too given they won't need to edit it in after.
today I learned that character in prisoner is meant to be tom the barkeep
You are not alone.
I think Fudge calls him Tom in the movie?
Same. Calling him Tom isn't enough. You have to specify that he's the barkeep. There are lots of Toms, as Riddle is well aware of.
I always thought that the dubbing of voices while polyjuiced was simply to keep the viewers straight on who is oh, like “oh yeah this is Hermione as Bellatrix, not Bellatrix herself”
the producers would thinks we the audience are to dumb to remember that bellatrix is actually hermione without a constant reminder wouldn’t they
@@lumpyduckling3522 Ohhhhh...so that's why she wasn't killing Harry and trying to break into her own vault. That scene makes soooo much more sense now.
Yeah, they believe their audience to be too dumb to realize that, while expecting us to follow the whole plot with half of background information missing.
Their bodies changed with the poly juice potion. Their vocal cords would too, making no need for dubbing. The audience would know that the characters were transformed.
True, but Harry telling Ron to make more of an effort impersonating Crabbe's voice implies they have their original voices.
When Richard Harris passed, they should have dragged Hugh Laurie in, kicking and screaming: clever, nuanced, tall, frosty blue eyes. I immediately thought Gambon was too low-energy, too reticent.
I really, REALLY wish they had kept the original Flitwick design. It was just too perfect.
The lady playing Mafalda Hopkirk in Deathly Hallows is Emma Thompson's (Trelawney's) sister. I do like the howler letter voice, Jessica Hynes, too.
i do like the Howler voice too, but i don't like that scene in general because
a. in the book Harry receives just a letter, not a Howler.
b. if it's supposed to be a Howler then why didn't they make it SOUND like a Howler? like with all the yelling and stuff!
I didn't even know they were the same character, notwithstanding the name. I just didn't make the connection. Mafalda Hopkirk was NOT all subdued and submissive. Regardless of who played her, she should have been more assertive, and with at least a hint of the sharp and uncompromising voice. The person who sent that letter was over eager about the letter of the law.
"Dobby died but Crabbe destroyed a Horcrux." LOL
I checked my phone brightness about a dozen times during the clips of half-blood and deathly hallows certain it had dropped down automatically
LOL SAME 😂
Those movies are just significantly dark lol
I have always said my favorite casting difference is the twins and Ron. I can’t imagine them getting them getting the same administration or amount of swag they bring as two short, stocky guys. Can you imagine them talking up to Ron eventually?
I'd always thought that the character you call "Bem" ("Ben"?) was Earnie McMillan.
Incidentally, Collin was not seventeen when he was killed. Either Neville or Oliver state that Collin must have snuck back. Also, an earlier piece of dialogue has Professor Mcgonagall telling him and Jimmy Peakes that they can't stay because they aren't of age.
Still, he was probably only a few months out considering he would be in the last or second last month of his 6th year. Hard to imagine him that old
Ernie Macmillan was actually in Chamber of Secrets then he shows up again in Goblet of Fire
Ernie Macmillan was a Ravenclaw though
@@thetimetraveller2671 Ernie was in Hufflepuff
@@SarahTheTrekkie true - my bad
As a movie only watcher
A) yes, the horcruxes item selection seemed like random macguffins out of nowhere.
B) I'm sorry, but I don't care what the credits say, that's not Tom the bar man. I don't know who that is cracking peanuts for Harry.
Yeah, I personally have some idea that he was just "Barman" then someone said "Hold up, the barman, isn't that Tom?" and a credit error was made.
I thought I saw the real Tom the Bar man in the deleted scenes of that same movie.
@@insaincaldo I never watched the credits. I just assumed he was someone who worked in the hotel area. It was my more recent watch through a few months back I realized his name was Tom. One thing Voldemort said about the name Tom was that its common. So I thought it was done on purpose to make it seem like "oh look theres two Tom's who work at the leaky cauldron"
He’s not Tom, he’s nosferatu
Verne Troyer (Mini-Me from Austin Powers) originally portrayed Griphook in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, when Griphook took Harry to his vault for the first time.
Definitely hitting like to bring back Jay's mop.
Yeah, does anyone else think that the "do" J has been sporting for a while makes him look like Sonic the Hedgehog?
When I started watching, I was like 'Flitwick better be on this list' and was very satisfied he was No.1
Flitwick is in the thumbnail..... he had to be in the video
I didn't realise the re-design was still Flitwick until Harry addressed him by name in a later movie, so I'm with you on not recognising that it was Davis lol
I'm glad I was not the only one.
I 100% thought they’d just introduced a new character who was a choir teacher 😂 apparently I was a minority too
Flitwick's redesign was due to JK Rowling speaking up and basically telling them the did his character wrong. Lol
It was easy to think he was Flitwick, because Flitwick had so little screen time up to that point. I don't even remember seeing him at all in CoS.
Can we also give an honorable mention to Dumbledore, Yes the circumstances are very different but it was still a change that I feel should've been mentioned
I'd prefer to include Dumbledore due to those circumstances, rather than Crabbe's recasting... :(
I think the recasting of Dumbledore was great. The first Dumbledore didn't portray the amount of energy required for the role in later books/movies
I really like the actor for sixteen-year-old Tom Riddle in Half Blood Prince, but I think the director showed him the wrong scene as reference for how to play the character. With his quiet voice, emotionless smile, and robotic mannerisms, it seems like he was told to act the way Voldemort acts in the Hepzibah Smith memory, not the way Tom Riddle acts in the Slughorn memory.
Quite frankly if Tom was so much unable to mask his psycopathy as seen in that scene , with a huge dose of charisma and charm as any master manipulator whould…the story oh Harry Potter would have been far less long ! Tom would have been caught in like his 2nd year ! Meanwhile book Tom / and Christian’s Tom was so good at masking his creepiness…only Dumbledore had doubts ! But hey won’t blame à Kid for being misdirected !
I think a Harry Potter animated series might work perfectly; easier to recreate magic and no one’s really upset over casting decisions as long as they sound good enough
That’s kind of a cool idea, but it would undermine the movies. I love them dearly, despite their flaws
@@LaneWinn There's something to that, but it wouldn't necessarily undermine anything. There are many Marvel-hero animated series, for example, and they don't undermine the MCU one bit.
I agree - if they did it well, an animated series has the potential to be amazing!
@@miriamrosemary9110 wow, I’ve never thought about it like that
thats what i figured as well. plus animation can balance funny and dark esier in some ways then live action
I have thoughts on all of these, but all I can think to say is HOLY COW after seeing what grown up teen Riddle looks like now *i need a fan* Also, I might be in the minority, but I prefer the later Flitwick. His original look was more what I had pictured Binns looking like so the new look just made more sense to me :)
Both are fine with me. Just pick one and stick to it is my complaint.
I feel like a lot of the changes we got from PoA were because of the director's vision of the "Wizarding world". I remember Cuaron mentions in the behind the scenes interviews a lot of aspects he would expect to be in a magical world, that aren't in the books. Also, total stylistic change to the layout of Hogwarts grounds (i.e. having to walk down a massive hill to Hagrids).
In the third movie, I seriously just thought that the creepy guy was one of Fudge's minions or something.
Same
@말포이나르시사 Well I thought Fudge just had a servant was all, that's why. I didn't register that to be Tom at all!
@말포이나르시사 agreed. 1st movie guy, yes, 3rd? No. Just a minion Fudge hates but has.
I thought to this day that Bem was Dean, and now I know that he's a seperate character
My biggest mixup is Lee Jordan and Dean Thomas. I always imagine them both as Alfred Enoch
I love how Ben didn't waste an opportunity to show a picture of J in high school. Truly peak little sibling energy
I love how passionate Ben and J get with their videos 😂
If there would be a show that re tells it, I would love for every chapter to be an episode and every book be a season.
That way, if an episode comes out once a day, you could read a chapter then watch it every day. I want that
That would be cool, but it would kind of undermine the point of the movies
@@LaneWinn yeah but the movies were disasters in my opinion. They got so much wrong.
@@LaneWinn the movies are about 2 hours 30 minutes long. I read very fast and it took me at LEAST 10-16 hours to read the first book. The point of movies based on books is summarizations.
Never mind the fact that he movies are awkward, miss so much important things ( S.P.E.W., Winky , Ludo bagman , Barty crouch , quidditch World Cup, TriWizard Maze, blast ended screwts, quidditch in others years, Ginny being a good character, Peeves, etc. )
@@cutcopper35 oh, I’m not saying that isn’t true (also you forgot Voldemort being a fleshed out villain) but the movies capture the magic of the books in different ways. Despite their flaws, they are very dear to me. I’m not saying the books aren’t better, but I’m more of a moviegoer than a bookworm 🙃
@@LaneWinn yes I agree, the magic is way better shown in the movies and yes some people have preferences but imagine, that same magic, and the same stories from the books BUT more fleshed out in a long show. 😏
"Nice one James" hits me in the feels every time I hear it
I NEVER liked that line. It just reminds me that not only Severus saw James instead of Harry but his own godfather too....that just doesn't seem right.
@@TheRibottoStudios I disagree with that. It strengthens Sirius’s relationship he had with James, and how much of him he sees in Harry
@@TheRibottoStudios No that line was a perfect last words before he died. In the middle of a deadly battle, both of them are swinging their wands and jinxing and having a great time. This obviously reminds Sirius about the times he dueled other kids at school with James by his side. I think he must’ve then got some kind of dejavu/nostalgia and then said “Nice one James!” to Harry, because Harry is so similar to James in this exact scenario. It being Sirius’ very last words also makes them a lot more powerful. Definitely something the movies did better than the book
The Tom riddle change was the most disappointing for sure.
I thought Tom in 3 was like a random employee of the bar
The theater kids all tuned in like: "wait, you have the original casting calls?" Before realizing he meant weirdest casting decisions.
Yeah, apparently someone at SCB doesn't know what "casting call" means.
Mini-Me (Verne Troyer) was the first Griphook. There's a bonus recast for you.
But Warwick Davis dubbed his voice.
I initially thought this title meant casting calls as in the "casting call" they put out for specific types of actors like "old white haired man" for Dumbledore or something... Def wouldn't have had 10 interesting ones lol
Draco was a ball sniffing monster. Crab was left traumatized after the ferret incident, so taking away his character moment is all the more sad.
Here’s a weird thing: Daniel Radcliffe has dyspraxia and has talked about his struggles tying his shoes. So that’s probably why Ginny ties his shoes in the movies.
They could've just left the scene out but yeah, still an interesting fact :)
this is the funniest comment i’ve ever seen 😭
He also has trouble blinking his eyes in unison
@@sheilarough236 This is what made me find out about this condition. I googled it once after watching it. It's cute though honestly.
See once you know that it’s adorable
the goblet of fire hair
Ben: what happened to their hair
Me: they predicted 2020 duh
Lol
IDK what was going on in the UK at that time but in 1995 (the year Goblet was set) was the year Grunge really took off, so it's period appropriate at least in the US.
In the GoF movie "Fight! Fight! Fight!" "You said!" "No, YOU said!"--totally NOT like Fred and George. We never see them get angry in the books, especially not at each other.
Fun fact, for griphook, in the first movie verne troyer actually played the character but they dubbed warwick davis’s voice over his for the lines
I love Bem and his random spookyness
Is there any punch left???? That line was pure gold Ben :-) been awhile since we have gotten a solo Ben video and you killed it!
Oh, there's an actual purpose for why each horcrux was chosen?
.. maybe it's time to finally read the books..
Do it! Just when you start reading it’ll be difficult to stop even. Books are crazy addictive
yess... I started reading on March and finished on my birthday April 16.it is freaking addictiveand made me skipping my online classes for atleast a week...
Idk if it is deleted 😑
@말포이나르시사 plss..can you reply me back if you can see this comment
I'm freaked out.. I've posted at least 10 replies but all of it got deleted 😑😑
I think gary oldman was a great Sirius, and the first guy who played Dumbledore was way better than his replacement, may he rest in peace.
Every time I watch Goblet of Fire, I’m distracted by the hair. Seriously, all the boys, especially Fred, George & Ron needed haircuts
I did like it on Harry though, finally he had some unruly hair somewhat how it's described in the books
Short hair is so lame though.
i'm surprised that there was no mention of Michael Gambon in here. i think every single one of us can agree that Richard Harris was a muuuuuuch better Dumbledore! yes i know he died midway thru the filming, and yes i know Gambon majorly redeemed himself in HBP (most notably in "The Cave" scene), but i feel like it definitely had to be mentioned at the very least!
Yes! I totally understand that after the death of an actor you need to recast, but I feel Gambon just wasn't the right choice. He's also said in interviews that he didn't read the books or watch the 1st two films, which is why we have those out of character moments
I agree... the "calm scene" in GoF... that was just awful...
I kind of liked Gambon's Dumbledore eventually, and he was great in PoA, in my opinion. I still think Richard Harris was the best actor they could ever cast for this role, but, sadly, there are things that could not be predicted or prevented. Reaching his level was an impossible task for anyone, and Gambon made it as well as he could and did a decent job. But Dumbledore in GoF was some cosplaying imposter that acted more suspiciously than Moody, and that's saying a lot.
His worst performance of Dumbledore in Goblet was definitely down to bad directing tho. But I agree- Harris is exactly I who envisioned after reading the book
I liked Gambons acting in the beginning of HBP where he picks up Harry and goes to meet Slughorn, especially since him and Jim Broadbent have great chemistry. But at that point it was too late and GoF and OotP had already happened.
The hard thing with casting children in a series is that you never know what the child actor will grow into so even if they fit the character description early on they might look completely different from the character later on.
While I love the casting choices that were made for the major characters most of them were poor fits for their characters from the book by the end of the story.
Emma Watson, who will forever be Hermione, never fit the book description of Hermione. Rupert Grint was just a normal guy instead of the tall gangly Ron from the books. Harry Potter himself was about a foot too short to match his book counterpart. None of that is their fault. That's just what happens when you adapt written material to the screen and do so across a large timespan.
It's much more odd what they did with Professor Flitwick and Lavendar Brown. To completely redesign the character of Flitwick the way they did was just silly. I have no problem with them using several different actresses to play Lavendar Brown in the early films when she was a non-speaking background character, but when they got to the film where she took on a role they should have cast a black actress to at least maintain continuity of who they'd had as the background character in the previous films.
There are some recastings that you can't do anything about. The role of Dumbledore had to be recast because Richard Harris died. Michael Gambon's interpretation of Dumbledore was very different than Harris' and much less like the book version of Dumbldore, but the role was too crucial to the story to remove so it had to be recast.
Creating characters that didn't exist previously like Nigel is mind boggling. There are so many characters in the 7 novels that the need for the filmmakers to insert new characters is nonexistent.
Harry in the books is not 6'5"...
Flitwick's was a major improvement, and Lavender was a character in name alone earlier on. When it came time to casting her in a major role, they should have got the best person for the part, which they did.
Gambon's Dumbledore is much more like the books' Dumbledore if you look past the worse performances, in particular to Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows.
Nigel is a great bloke. The reason for his being is clear.
Tom Felton had to bleach his hair. He be like "OH NO YOU AIN'T RECASTING ME! MoM gRaB mY bLeAcH!!!"
Overall, Prisoner of Azkaban is one of my favorites for both the books and the movies, but I always felt they did Tom a major injustice in the film.
The delivery of Bem’s lines are utterly hilarious to me for some reason.
At the beginning Ben said have you every wanted a Harry Potter tv show closer to the book, I was literally thinking about this like 2 hours before this video was posted what do SCB what do🤯
I'm really surprised that it hasn't been done or at least not in the works yet, honestly.
I think that would undermine the point of the movies
@@LaneWinn No more so than the movies undermine the books.
In the end it would just be another medium for the story.
@@Xynth22 despite their flaws, I think the movies, for the most part, capture the world and story of Harry Potter very well. I love them dearly. Even JK Rowling praises them
@@LaneWinn Did anyone say they are bad?
In the books and movies we never see any character wearing the "required" hats. Why?
They do wear the hats in the first movie during the opening and closing feasts.
at the wizarding world of harry potter the tour guide explained it to me! towards the end of the first film, when gryffindor win the house cup, all of the students throw their hats in the air. this quickly became a fire hazard due to the dozens of candles in the great hall (they were actually there when filming, the wires holding them up were edited out). the director/costume designers decided that between kids losing hats, continuity errors, and genuine safety risks that it was better to just drop the hats.
@@kardiganblair3804 Also not going to lie, but it's very British to have pieces of uniform included on lists for people to buy but then you never even use them... Looking at you various jumpers that apparenty needed to be custom embroidered and then were never worn... That's obviously just a coincidence, but it makes me laugh how true to form it is.
@@Charbified haha, that's so true!! just gave me flashbacks to the old winter pe kit...
@@kardiganblair3804 Plus, the pointy wizard hats are just too silly, or maybe just unrelatable. I'm glad they don't wear them. Some things don't come off as well when you have to look at them all the time that are great development in books.
I swear, I LOVE it when Sirius calls harry James, it gives me chills, its just so sweeeeet !!!
"I could go on forever about some of the choices they made in the movies which deviated from the source material."
Oh don't even get me STARTED on how much I HATE movie 5 for this sin. Severus throwing, THROWING something at Harry for looking into his memories? Nah. I mean I do like the scene, it's also VERY Snape but just....nah Severus was ENRAGED so...yeah.
Also THEY LEFT OUT HARRY'S BREAKDOWN IN DUMBLEDORE'S OFFICE AND BECAUSE OF THIS SO MANY PEOPLE EQUATE HARRY'S TRAUMA TO "Teenage angst go brrr" THANKS I HATE IT. That is a standout moment from the books and I was really looking forward to seeing it on the big screen and nothing. Not to mention movie 6 was just 90% relationship drama and 10% actual plot and I'll never forgive them for how they handled Dumbledore's death and removing 50% of Voldemort's memories. Harry was PARALYZED and couldn't do anything when Dumbledore died but in the movie? Nah we get Severus going "shhhhh" and Harry just stands there....yeah like HARRY POTTER would just STAND THERE while Dumbledore was cornered and murdered.
Thank you. Also not, because I had never noticed the shhhh thing
@@afifmajid8754 yyah it's soooo just....eugh lol it's not snape lol
@@TheRibottoStudios ok but honestly I remember thinking Harry's being a wimp the whole book in Order, and then that chapter in the office was like boom. Never have I ever agreed more with a person than I did with harry at that moment. True cathartic cataclysmic release like the first day of December, but with emotions
To be fair, the sixth BOOK was 90% relationship drama, 10% plot.
And what about the fact that Umbridge was supposed to be a big fat toad?
I would’ve said Ginny as a questionable casting. Despite the actress being impressive she doesn’t embody what the books made me imagine Ginny to be. She doesn’t act like the popular, good looking girl that the books portrayed, instead she’s timid and reserved
I don’t think that’s bad casting so much as bad directing. And you forget. The character of Ginny WAS timid and reserved for the first three books. She didn’t really start to come out of her shell more until book 4
I actually disagree - I think Bonnie Wright was perfect for Ginny, and had she been left to play Ginny the way Bonnie saw fit, I think she would’ve done phenomenal. I think the failure with Ginny is in the directing and screenwriting rather than the actress
I think Bonnie was great- I think if the directing and script had embodied Ginny better she definitely could have been a better Ginny.
I agree with the other commenters, Ginny was cast very well, they just didn't put enough of her personality from the books into the movie
I think that is Bc of the script they didn’t give her a chance to be that
The emo hair on Ben and J and everyone in Goblet of Fire. I'm Dead.
bruh, the two scene with ginny (tying the shoes and feeding cookies) were my two favorite scenes from the movies
The easiest for me to let slide is Lavender because we didn’t get a proper description of her until later which prompted the casting change
agree! also, I think the actress played her really well
Yes but also disappointed that Lavender Brown was always cast as black girls until she actually got a speaking part in the movie and all of a sudden they cast her as white. It was just a bit annoying, cuz they could’ve easily cast a black girl to continue the character as she’s been shown through the other movies
I don't know if it's actually true, but I've read that they just threw a random name on the character previously, but she was never actually the full character of Lavender Brown we later see in Half Blood Prince.
@@brinmoody no she was always cast as “Lavender Brown” but she was never a speaking role until she begins her relationship with Ron after she’s been recasted. If you watch end credits you will see these black actresses being given credit for playing Lavender Brown specifically
Same. I dislike that they changed her to be white, but I didn't even notice it in the movie. She is in the background with a hundred other kids until she's highlighted.
Okay you're talking about the hair in GoF and I've been writing a dissertation for a decade about how whomever was in charge of Draco's hair in movies 1, 2, and 4 committed crimes against humanity.
about whoever was in charge; whoever is the subject of its clause and in the nominative not the accusative.
@@garethjones2596 no one likes a prescriptivist
@@Langwidere903 Better to correct than hypercorrect.
@@garethjones2596 I did that from my phone, be glad there aren't more typos/auto-correct errors than the one.
@@garethjones2596 Whoever made this comment is a pedant.
I know that a lot of you love the Prisoner of Azkaban movie for some reason, but to me, it was the worst adaptation and a lot of the problems you listed here in the casting also happened in that movie. I could go on a whole rant about all the things wrong in that adaptation that happened just for the sake of letting the director have "artistic freedom". It seemed like he didn't read or understand the novel.
Love the quiet late to the party joke about punch, that was so low key that it really worked for me and i want to make sure it gets the recognition i think it deserves! Nice one Ben!
It’s always bothered me that Daniel Radcliffe wasn’t cast to play James potter in the flashbacks.
I’m having a really, really bad mental health day, and the video starts with an ad for therapy. I think it’s a sign
It's ok to get help! You deserve to be happy.
I hope you feel better soon 💛
Take care of yourself! Have therapy if you like it, and maybe take some time to rest or do something you enjoy?
I hope you feel better tomorrow
I feel like I haven't seen such a chaotic Ben vid in a while...was really feeling the energy today Ben!
Idk if it’s been addressed, but based on the novel dialogue (and I believe movie dialogue) Griphook was the one who escorted HP to his vault. Which means Vern Troyer was the original Griphook. Which also means Warwick Davis played the Gargoyle bank manager, Griphook, and Flitwick.
The pettiness of calling Flitwick “second best dueler at Hogwarts behind Snap” is just top tier 😂👌🏼
Pretty sure Dumbledore was the true #1
He was #literallyaduelingchampion
Severus Snap.
Snape*
@@luskaneseprince This comment made me laugh out loud and I can't even really explain why.
I’ve always said, if they redo the movies it must be animated and be a show with each season is a book and cover the entire books. Hey
Correction on the guy who played Crabbe. London riots as you said was in 2011, more specifically July 2011, exact same time that Part II was released. The actor never returned to film which was filmed a year before in 2010. The reason why was because he was growing cannabis and was charged. I think he had community service. The producers didn’t want someone with that reputation in the films so opted not to bring him back.
Warwick Davis has incredible range! He also plays the bank goblin, wicket from the ewok movies, the leprechaun, him and Alan Rickman both played Marvin in Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy! And nikabrik in Narnia and ofc willow! He's one of my favorite actors 💖
I agree that the dubbing with the polyjuice potion is annoying, but, I am pretty sure they did it to help the audience keep track of who was polyjuicing into who. However in DH I really think it was unnecessary because Harry, Ron and Hermione polyjuice into people who kind of look like them already.
They had to do it in DH to keep it consistant with Chamber. But still, I still believe it to be unnecessary, especially considering that it didn't apply to Barty Crouch Jr.'s voice
that's exactly why they did it: it would simply be too hard to keep track of it without the voices because there's no narrator to tell you who's who.
But like, couldn’t they just, I don’t know, add a little dialogue of “Gosh Harry, I’m not used to Goyle doing anything remotely intelligent!” or “Ron! I mean… _Crabbe_ please get over here!”
@@beccag2758 They did, actually. When Harry first transforms into Goyle, I believe there's a moment where Harry's like "Ron?" and Ron does the same, so I don't understand why they felt like it was necessary to change their voices
@@julianortiz5712 then that makes even less sense to change their voices lol
It’s 1:18am but can’t stop that SCB grind
Keep it up!
@@SuperCarlinBrothers no sleep for me :D
I don't know why, but when Ben suggested Daniel Radcliffe play Snape, I got shivers
It's not a change, but the general issue of so many characters being so much older than their character's age.
That's true of most movies with children as characters.
@@PhilBagels I know ,but it's several of the adult characters, too though. For example Snape's actor was in something like his 50s and 60s during the course of the movies when he is supposed to be in his 30s. That's a big difference, and although they weren't as extreme, there were other adult characters whose actors were noticeably older than they were.