Daniel Radcliffe -- Seeing Actors/Actresses while re-reading

[ellejir]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., Penny wrote:
> I'm seeing many of the actors & actresses when I re-read.  I 
believe I'm seeing the ones who match up with what my mental image of 
the character *was* before the movie.  Movie Seamus, for example, 
doesn't fit with what I pictured at all (and not just all that 
Neville-like exploding stuff either ... physically he's not what I 
pictured either).  So, I haven't replaced book Seamus with that 
actor.< 

I agree.  Why *did* they have Seamus doing all that Neville-like 
stuff anyhow??  That is not how I think of Seamus and the character 
of Neville was crying out for development (so that his win of 10 
points for Gryffindor to secure the House Cup would be seen as the 
amazing victory that it is for him!) I think that my husband who is 
*not* an obsessed fan--never read the books, listens to books-on-tape 
when he is in the car with me, saw the movie once (and liked it)--
thought that Neville and Seamus were the same character.

Penny also wrote:
> I *do* picture Radcliffe as Harry, Rupert, Emma, Robbie, Maggie 
Smith, Rickman & probably Richard Harris.  Oh, and Tom Felton works 
for me.> 

Tom Felton did a very good job with the role but I do not see him as 
Draco. I think that is because his face is too sweet, especially 
around the mouth.  I cannot put those rounded cheeks and lips 
together with Jim Dale's sneering, drawling Malfoy voice (and 
*that's* the Malfoy I love to hate!)    Elle