Snape

[clio44a]

Wow, quick response. 
I think I need to clarify some thinks here.

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., Susanne Schmid <pigwidgeon37 at y...> wrote:
> 
> Uh, sorry, but I don't think Jeremy Irons looks repulsive... 
(Clears her throat and gets serious again) I thought Day-Lewis just 
because he can manage that ascetic look and *is* dark-haired and 
black-eyed without wigs, contact lenses etc.
> 
Of course Irons doesn't look repulsive in general!! He is one of my 
favourite actors. He can look repulsive when he sneers, he quite well 
manages to have an evil glint in his eyes and he also can play very 
well those passionate and obsessed-to-almost-insanity guys.
Regarding D.Day-Lewis, he sure looks ascetic, but can you imagine how 
people would drool over him as Snape when there already a lot of 
people are fantasizing about Rickman, who is about 50?

  

> I'd say that, instead of Dogma's Metatron, she might have had in 
mind Colonel Brandon from "Sense and Sensibility"- just a wild guess 
though, becuase Brandon is *the*  romantic type, disillusioned, a 
little bitter, but ready to let himself convince by a lovingly 
devoted little woman (eurgh!)

I'm actually sure that JKR had Colonal Brandon in mind when writing 
Snape. Why? Well she said she always wanted Rickman to play Snape, 
even before she had that movie contract + she always names J.Austen 
as her favorite author + Sense and Sensibilty came out as a movie 
around the same time JKR wrote her first Potter book.
I must say I don't like the thought. That's why I'm happy about that 
little eurgh you squeezed into your message. :)

So I wait for the next books to come out and brace for the worst. You 
know, it always happens that my favorite villains get messed up in 
the end. Anyone remember how they turned Gul Dukat from DS9 from a 
perfect sardonic ambivalent guy into a fireball-throwing red-eyed 
cartoon bad boy? (little bit OT here, sorry)


> BTW, are you German? (I guessed from the .de in your e-mail address)

Yes, I am.
 
Clio