Hermione (was Smoothing ruffled feathers)

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--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:
>Her style would be quite appropriate on a stage, where voice 
projection, clear enunciation and to some extent more 
strenuous "acting" is necessary to ensure her lines are heard and 
understood.  Her problem is not so much that she can't act, it's that 
she hasn't taught her how to tone things down for the movie cameras, 
making the change in mood she has to do near the end look very 
clunky.  >

May I comment on Emma's Hermione?  

I also thought that Emma overacted quite a bit, but at the same time, 
I thought it was also a very Hermione characteristic ~ the 
enunciation, the overly pompous attitude, and even the clunky changes 
of mood.  In the first book, for all Hermione's apparent confidence, 
I think her only source of self-confidence is her book-smarts, but 
that she does, in fact, have a very grating manner due to an actual 
general *lack* of confidence (being, as she is, the daughter of two 
dentists suddenly transplanted into a wizard world).  Throughout the 
first book, Hermione is very annoying (as Ron calls in in the movie, 
during the Sorting, "mental").

So I guess the way I see it, Emma might be unschooled in film acting, 
might be overacting and overenunciating and all that, but to me it 
fits right in with how I would imagine Hermione being in the first 
book.  She mellows a bit as the books wear on, but so, I suppose, 
could Emma, as the movies wear on.

Just mho.

Mahoney