[HPFGU-Movie] RE: Snape costuming- other costumes

[Rachel Fellman]

> Actually, I loved the palate for his costumes. The
> robe really was a simple
> "choir robe" type, it had been slit and embellished
> with the arm slits and
> the bifurcated train/hem (heh!). 

   After a brief period of really liking Snape's
costumes, I am now officially Opposed. There were
details I approved of (white undertunic, the winter
outerwear) but overall, it just felt all wrong. If the
neck of his jacket is as uncomfortable as it looks,
for instance, or the train as hard to handle, then I
can't see Snape wearing either voluntarily (he likes
drama in his clothing, yes, formality, yes- masochism,
no). The fact that he's wearing nothing more wizardly
than a suit and a cape bothers me too- it doesn't
really have the flow and swish, nor does it make it
easy for him to look very dramatic or batlike. 
   The whole costume also seemed specifically designed
to make Alan Rickman look as old and as heavy as
humanly possible. 
   It's not really an isolated thing, either...just
the most annoying example to me. The combination
medieval/Dickensian/modern look of the movie was very
nice to look at, but it didn't feel like an authentic
world in the same way that the books do. The fashion
isn't consistent enough. We have Dumbledore in his
long, ornate robes; Snape, in his suit straight off of
some nineteenth-century planet; the kids in their
downtime, wearing ordinary Muggle clothing. If you
can't *force* yourself to just put them all in robes
and cloaks, at least pick an era and style and stay
with it. It seems to me that to go all
random-eras-everywhere is excellent design but pretty
poor world-building.
-Rachel

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