Hagrid's Gift and Ewan as Lupin

[Zarleycat at aol.com]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "Hollydaze" <hollydaze at b...> wrote:
> Sissy Wrote:
> <SNIP>
> > However, he is only 30 years old. He 
> > would be painfully young on the screen compared with Mr.Rickman's 
> > Snape while they are supposed to be around same age. I don't 
think 
> > even the make-up people can cover the 20 year age difference.
> 
> But you have to remember that Rickman is a 55 year old playing a 
(in 
> the first film) 32/33 year old so by the 3rd film he (Snape/ Lupin) 
> will be a 34/35 year old, and it is not that impossible to make 
Ewan 
> look between 5 and 3 years older (than he will be during the 
filming 
> of number 3).

I'm with Sissy on this one.  One of my main problems with the movie 
Snape is that he already looks like he's mid-forties at the 
youngest.  Given that canon-age has been thrown out the window, I 
don't think that actors of Ewan's age bracket can cut it as Lupin or 
Black.  I think what WB will do is cast 40+-year-olds to make sure 
all three look about the same age. 

On to the next subject - the book of photographs Hagrid gives Harry 
at the train station.  Hagrid gives Harry the book, Harry sees the 
picture of him with his parents and gives Hagrid a hug.  We know 
Harry is moved by this gesture, and we can see in Hagrid's face that 
he really cares about Harry.  And this is fine as a way of further 
establishing the relationship between Harry and Hagrid. The person I 
saw the film with, who hasn't read the books, thought it was just one 
photo in a somewhat elaborate frame.  She wondered what the 
relationship between Hagrid and Harry's parents was like, since 
Hagrid must have had this picture sitting in his house and only now 
was giving it to Harry.

So, I explained to her that the book version had Hagrid asking old 
friends of James and Lily to send pictures to him, and that he was 
really giving Harry a photo album.  We both feel that the book 
version is more moving in that it shows Hagrid thoughtfully going out 
of his way to try to give Harry some sort of tangible connection to 
his parents.  

Oh, well, I guess this just illustrates the problem of going from one 
medium to another - we all have pictures and preferences in our heads 
and no one will ever be able to replicate what's in our own 
individual imaginations.  There's no telling what will make us cranky 
about what is left in or out or how it looks right or wrong.  I'm 
already cranky about the character of Arwen riding a horse and waving 
a sword in the upcoming "Lord of the Rings."  

Marianne