Rik Mayall, Harry's eyes, breaking voices.

[Tabouli]

shanerichmond:
> I for one am pleased that Peeves has gone. Purely because he was 
being played by Rik Mayall - an awful actor IMO with only one type of 
character in his repertoire. Hopefully they'll re-cast the role 
before CoS.<

Chris:
> There seems to be logic and inspiration behind casting Rik Mayall as 
Peeves. Mayall fans may care to see "Drop Dead Fred" in which Rik plays 
a child's former imaginary friend come back to haunt her in later life, 
a role with some similarities to that of a poltergeist.<

Mm.  I've seen "Drop Dead Fred", and it was OK, but it was obvious that the director had told Rik to "just do The Young Ones thing, right, mate?  Cheers".  I can tolerate Rik as Peeves, who is an annoying character by definition, but I really hope we can make a little progress beyond the Young Ones this time.  After all, Rik must be in his mid to late forties by now - rehashing his role as a loud, wild-eyed student in a dodgy sharehouse again would really be too much.

Amy Z:
> Gripe, gripe, gripe.  I love the poster, but WHY, tell me, WHY can't artists 
get something as simple and obvious as the color of Harry's eyes right?  It 
is very easy to alter this kind of thing on a photograph.<

You tell 'em, Amy Z.  I'm one of the few people who seems to notice eye colour.  Honestly, some people don't even know the eye colour of their partner of five years!  And when JKR has gone out of her way to tell us again and again that Harry has his mother's bright green eyes, not whipping out the computer for five minutes to fix this is just not good enough!

Neil:
> A boy called Joe Sowerbutts - who is actually  a bit older than Daniel - provided the 
boyish voice for two scenes, and has been hired to voiceover some 
film-related merchandise.  I guess Joe will also be dubbing Dan's voice for the whole of Chamber 
of Secrets... unless *his* voice breaks, that is.<

Hella:
> The dubbing story is probably sloppy journalism, as you say Marcus, 
but Dan's voice has broken. I listened to the interview on newsround 
and it is clear his voice is not the same as it is in the trailers. 
It is a little bit sad though; I always imagined Harry's voice 
breaking in book 3 for some reason. I also listened to the interviews 
with Rupert Grint and Tom Felton. It looks like Rupert's voice is on 
the verge of breaking as well< 

Is anyone else deeply worried about this dubbing, be it rumour or fact?  I'm sure Warner Bros will do a very careful job with it (unlike a lot of hastily non-lip synched efforts I've seen across languages), but for me it just takes away from the whole part if the voice we hear isn't the voice that was recorded at the same time as the visuals (or even the voice of the person on screen).  Hmmm.

Another thing - I could be wrong, but don't most boys' voices break later than 11-12?  Chris Columbus has lucked out seriously here with his cast if all the boys are breaking.  I always thought this was a mid-puberty thing in most boys, not the first thing to happen.  I though first the growth spurt begins, *then* things like sprouting whiskers and voice breaking happen at 14-ish.  From what I've seen (admittedly not much, and I'm sure make-up artists played a role) the three lead boys still look like young, downy-cheeked boys, not teenagers (though Tom is 13).  Though I'm also worried about Dan on this score, as his face does seem to be taking on more adolescent proportions, even compared with pictures from six months ago.  And didn't some article say that he's already starting to shoot up, and may be towering over Rupert before long?  He might need to be replaced for PoA which would be sad, seeing everyone seems to agree he's good in the role, and it's always a bit clunky to change the actor for a central role.  I always thought Harry's voice would be wavering in GoF, but looks like in movie terms it's not to be.

As for using a 13yo boy's voice to dub Daniel, um, isn't this a bit unwise, Warner Bros?  Why not get a 10 year old with a family history of late breakage, so you have a reasonable guarantee of an unbroken voice for at least two or three years??

Tabouli.
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