Students remade the Harry Potter movie for a pittance and became famous: it's funny to the point of tears, but the web is delighted. Video

July 31 is the birthday of Harry Potter, the protagonist of the iconic novel by American writer J.K. Rowling. The character, who is 44 years old, became especially popular after the release of a series of films based on the novel.

Inspired by the special atmosphere of the famous movie, twelve students from Greensboro College filmed the first part of the fantasy on their own. The group of friends shared their version of the cult movie, which gained more than 500 thousand views in 10 days and made the authors famous, on their YouTube page.

The group of guys who worked on the remake noted that they shot 2335 frames, which are as close as possible to the original Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. With a rather small and limited budget, the students independently developed every detail that appeared in the frame. In total, the work on the material lasted 2 years and 7 months.

"Every sound effect is our own recording, all the animations and modeling are created exclusively by a group of 12 friends who live together in college. We wanted to do everything ourselves, as amateurs, and just have fun with it. It was shot at our college in Greensboro, North Carolina," the authors of the idea said.

In the remake, twelve friends recreated all the scenes of the popular movie, trying to play the role of each character as identically as possible. Despite the fact that the remake looks quite funny, as most of the props were created from scrap materials, the students' hard work did not go unnoticed.

In ten days, the reshooted Harry Potter movie has garnered more than half a million views, and netizens were delighted with what they saw.

"It's just a masterpiece!"

"This is by far the best parody of footage from the first Harry Potter movie without using any of the original's sounds, images or resources."

"I just watched this last week! I was absolutely blown away by the amount of effort that went into this!"

"Literally a cinematic masterpiece, I enjoyed every second of it. Thank you guys for your work."

"I watched this movie. It is beautiful and I would like to give you all the awards. Great job!"

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