How The Prisoner of Azkaban Sparked My Love for Movies

All of us had favourite movies we loved watching endlessly as kids. The ones we’d put on when we’re going through it, or maybe, because they sparked something inside us. A few examples come to mind like Ratatouille wanting to inspire the chef inside of us, or if you’re older, a movie like Whiplash — which I recently talked about — sparking an ambition to master an art, or The Queen’s Gambit suddenly making all of us chess lovers.

For me, I don’t think I ever saw a movie as a kid that had a bigger impact on me more than Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban. Whether I knew it at the time or not, this was going to inspire a significant passion of mine. It certainly helped that I loved the Harry Potter franchise as a kid. To this day, the series as a whole is one of my all-time comfort watches.

However, the first time I watched The Prisoner of Azkaban, there was just something different about how it made me feel. It was a lot of firsts for the series — some that were never seconds — which may be have been the distinct ingredients that made it resonate so much with me. It was as if Albus Dumbledore pulled out his deluminator, plucked out this love of movies I had buried within me, and casted it onto my television screen.

Before I get into this, I’d like to disclose to any book lovers that I have little exposure to the books, so if I say something blasphemous to you, try to keep in mind this is just my opinion. Now, take it away Ern!

I was far too young to realize at the time just how important a movie director is on affecting the overall product. Spoiler alert: they are very important!

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