[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Snape

[Shannon Compton]

Clio wrote:

>MMM wrote:
>>Plus I 
>> didn't go for the "no foolish wand waving" speech while striding 
>> briskly into the classroom.  

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>I fully agree with you here. I don't know how those lines are 
>delivered in the original version by Rickman, but in the German 
>dubbed movie the actor for Snape's voice is slightly huffing (from 
>rushing into the room)when starting the potion speach. So from this 
>and from shooting Snape from below you get the impression there is 
>this slightly overweight guy rushing into the room, because he is 
>late, and he hasn't time to wait with his lesson to begin, so he 
>starts to speak while still out of breath. It's devastating and it 
>actually made me cringe in my seat.

In the original, there's not a huff-or-puff <g>  to be heard. I thought
that scene was excellent.  I can see how having a puffing overdubbed voice
might give the impression that he was rushing late into class, but that's
not the way it struck me at all.  Just because the students are there
doesn't mean he's late. I loved it because he starts talking before he's
barely inside the door, and in his normal tone of voice.  It's as if he's
saying, "I'm here, class starts NOW, and woe be to the student who isn't
ready NOW."  :)  I can't imagine Snape waiting for the class to settle
down, even if he's doing it whilst glowering at them.

Shannon