ralph fiennes played voldemort in the goblet of fire.
ralph fiennes played voldemort in the goblet of fire.
who played voldemort in the goblet of fire?
ralph fiennes
in "harry potter and the goblet of fire", voldemort is initially only heard, possessing the scratchy, weak voice heard in the first film. by the film's climax, however, he appears in his physical form for the first time, played by ralph fiennes. as in the book, voldemort is shown clad in dark black robes, being tall and emaciated, with no hair and yellowish teeth; his wand has a white tone and the handle appears to be made of bone; his finger nails are long and pale blue while his toe nails appear to be infected. unlike in the book, his pupils are not cat-like and his eyes are blue, because producer david heyman felt that his evil would not be able to be seen and would not fill the audience with fear (his eyes do briefly take on a snake-like appearance when he opens them after turning human, but quickly turn normal). as in the book, the film version of voldemort has snake-like slit nostrils with the flesh of his nose significantly pressed back. ralph fiennes' nose was not covered in makeup on the set, but was digitally removed in post-production. in this first appearance, voldemort also has a forked tongue, but this element was removed for the subsequent films.
lord voldemort
in the fourth instalment of the series, "harry potter and the goblet of fire", voldemort appears at the start and the climax of the book. rowling lets many seemingly unrelated plot elements fall into order. it is revealed that voldemort's minion barty crouch jr, disguised as hogwarts professor mad-eye moody, has manipulated the events of the triwizard tournament in harry's favour. voldemort's goal is to teleport harry under dumbledore's watch as a reluctant participant to the little hangleton graveyard, where the riddle family is buried. harry is captured and, after pettigrew uses harry's blood to fulfil a gruesome magical ritual, voldemort regains his body and is restored to his full power. for the first time in the series, rowling describes his appearance: "tall and skeletally thin", with a face "whiter than a skull, with wide, livid scarlet eyes and a nose that was as flat as a snake’s with slits for nostrils". rowling writes that his "hands were like large, pale spiders; his long white fingers caressed his own chest, his arms, his face; the red eyes, whose pupils were slits, like a cat's, gleamed still more brightly through the darkness". it was revealed that, while in albania, pettigrew had captured the ministry of magic official bertha jorkins, who was tortured for information about the ministry. after they learned that barty crouch jr, a faithful death eater, had been smuggled out of azkaban and was privately confined at his father's house, they killed her. with pettigrew's help, voldemort creates a small, rudimentary body, corporeal enough to travel and perform magic, and formulated a plan to restore his own body by capturing harry. a portion of the plan had been overheard by frank bryce, a gardener, whom voldemort then killed. voldemort then completes his plan and returns to life in his full body as a result of the ritual with harry's blood. he then summons his death eaters to the graveyard to witness the death of harry as he challenges harry to a duel. however, when voldemort duels harry, their wands become magically locked together due to the twin phoenix feather cores of the wands. because of a phenomenon later revealed as priori incantatem, ghost-like manifestations of voldemort's most recent victims (including harry's parents) then appear and distract voldemort, allowing harry just enough time to escape via portkey with the body of fellow-student, cedric diggory, who was murdered by pettigrew on voldemort's orders.
lord voldemort