[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Snape

[Susanne Schmid]

  kiricat2001 <Zarleycat at aol.com> wrote: 
>>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?


True, but then most members of this group *are* already drooling about Snape- including myself. Regarding it from a more distant POV, I wonder whether this is a typically female reaction: Are we unable to just accept that he's oily-haired, sallow-skinned, yellow-teethed, sardonic, sadistic, probably more uptight than a Victorian duchess? Evidently we are. As I already said, what made me believe there's more to him was essentially his age. If he's about 35/36 in GoF, that means he was not even in his mid-twenties when he turned away from Voldemort and probably barely twenty when he became a DE. Which kind of makes you think about his motivations to join the Dark Side. Oooh, I could go on for hours and hours with my Snape Defence...


>Which is why there is a small herd of us holding out the >probably 
>vain hope of Daniel Day-Lewis being cast as Sirius...

>To continue the Rickman discussion, I stated earlier that I had >a 
>problem with his character.  However, I didn't mind him bursting >into 
>that Potions class.  I didn't see it as an indication that Snape >was 
>late.  I felt that the film-makers wanted to show him doing >something 
>loud and physical to grab everyone's attention.  I saw it as a >way of 
>getting across the message physically rather than verbally of "I >am 
>not someone to trifle with."  But the criticisms of others on >the 
>list that this is not canon-Snape is well-founded.  In the book >Harry 
>notes that Snape, like McGonagal, is one of those teachers who >has 
>the ability to hold the attention of a class without effort.

Exactly. And more than once, our attention is drawn to the fact that he moves noiselessly, which IMO is a lot more frightening for his students. And fits way better with canon. BTW, what does everybody think of the make-up? I felt that they overdid it, above all in contrast with his black wig (grrrr! how I hate that wig)

Susanna/pigwidgeon37







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