[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Referendum on the Director

[Shannon Compton]

At 03:13 PM 12/12/2001 -0000, oz-widgeon wrote:

>thought. I think, given the choice of cutting, Peeves, the Troll or 
>Norbert, I'd have ousted Peeves too.  He served no purpose in the 
>first book (or any really) other than to draw attention to the Trio 
>when they were out of bed and to drop the cabinet over Filch's office 
>in CoS.  BTW, did anyone catch that Ron mentioned Peeves' name in the 
>movie?  When they are going to the common room after Quirrel faints
>in the Great Hall (LOVED THAT SCENE!), they are talking about how a
>troll would get in, and Ron says something to the effect of "Probably 
>just Peeves playing a joke."

As much as it pains me to do so, I agree. I love Peeves, but he's mostly
been comic relief so far.  Still...Rik Mayall was playing Peeves! RIK
MAYALL! :)  I had visions of Peeves swooping around screeching bad poetry
and calling himself "The People's Poet."  I still hold out hope for his
scenes in the DVD though.

>> I have a very few quibbles, but only a few, and they are fairly 
>>minor. 
>
>Very few quibbles here , except I WANTED the Sorting hat song, and
>why did they show the Choc Frog cards if they didn't use that to find 
>Flammel, and I didn't like that everyone in the Great Hall could hear 
>everything the Sorting Hat said.  Other than that, Dandy.  Seen it 3 
>times, will probably go again. 

My aunt, cousins and I discussed the Sorting Hat after our first viewing.
The song was pretty lengthy, though it could have been shortened I guess,
and still get the gist of the houses across. But we decided that probably,
the hat wasn't audible to *everyone* in the Great Hall, probably just
whoever was wearing it and *maybe* Professor McGonagall since she was so
close.  Its voice got noticeably louder when it would shout out the house
name.  I'm trying to remember now, did we actually hear it say anything to
Ron or Hermione, or anyone else? I'm trying to remember if we could hear it
talking when, say, Ron was talking about how all the witches gone bad had
come from Slytherin.  

Shannon