Review comments/press notes

[jonathandupont at hotmail.com]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., cassandraclaire73 at y... wrote:
> 
> *chortles with evil glee* I'm still on a high from going to the NY 
> premiere and shaking Dan Radcliffe's hand. Yes, I know he's twelve. 
> But he's Harry! I'm not weird. Not very weird anyway.

I'd be on a high. I'm still on a kind of high from seeing it 
yesterday. 

> I uploaded the press notes Warner Bros sent me into the Files 
> section. They are very boring but if we ever need them for 
reference, 
> they have a lot of information about the cast and crew.
> 
> 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU/Movie/files/FINALAPPROVEDPotterNOT
> ES.htm

Thanks for them - I still find it a bit stupid that ... (carried on 
under Spoiler Warning) - 

> Random comments:
> 
>  > S
> > P
> > O
> > I
> > L
> > E
> > R
> > S
> > 
> > A
> > L
> > R
> > E
> > A
> > D
> > Y

... they include John Cleese in the main credits though. At the 
cinema it amazed me that he got first credit till I realised they 
were going alphabetically. Still, he had more of a cameo than 
anything else.

> > First things first to get it over and done with. Shipping - or 
the 
> > H/G moment.  > He didn't quite ignore her - and he had a lot on 
his 
> mind at the 
> > moment. What I was a bit surprised at was that Ginny does not 
learn 
> > who Harry is - and she still seems immediately taken with him. 
I'd 
> > always pictured her being overawed at first because of the 
> celebrity 
> > thing. Maybe she's just being friendly."
> 
> Oh, pfft, he completely ignores her -- I've now seen it twice, and 
he 
> does not even LOOK at her or register that she wished him good 
luck. 
> As for Ginny -- when she first sees him her eyes widen -- I had 
this 
> odd feeling she guessed who he was -- but then again how would she?

Well - lets put it this way, he doesn't look like he deliberately 
ignores her, which is how seemed to come out from some people. He 
pays about the same amount of attention to her that he does to 
everyone else. The poor boy is a bit overwhelmed at the moment - I'd 
personally be wearing a glazed look for ... well, the whole year 
actually.

Still you've got the advantage of seeing it twice, and to have an 
equally valid opinion, I'll have to go see it again... What a pity.

I'm guessing she might learn who he is the scene on the platform - 
which I reckon was probably just taken out of the final cut. It could 
fit into there anyway.


> " On a related note - I'm hoping that the chess match may dilute 
some 
> > of the anti-Ron feeling... It shows him in his best, and a lot of 
> > noble sacrifice. Tell me - does he look then as if he's likely to 
> > betray Harry lately?"
> 
> *eg* Hey, most of us RISS'ers quite liked Ron up until GoF. I've 
> always said that chess scene was his finest moment. Then again, 
look 
> at all the fine moments Anakin Skywalker had.

What, the moments when you wanted to strangle him for 
shouting "Yippee!" for the hundredth time? 

The chess scene was his finest moment. And the potions / devil's 
snare was probably Hermione's. That was the last time the two of them 
got really tested after all.

 
> No, [John Williams] doesn't know about Scabbers being Peter. He has 
read only the 
> first book and that with reluctance. He told me he has "no 
intention 
> whatever of reading the others." Whatever to him, IMHO.
> Cassie

Ah well, just my mind implanting it then. Still, good on him for at 
least trying to read it unlike a certian unsuitable actor with the 
initials RH...

(I'm sorry, I can't bring myself to criticise JW too much. Being a 
Star Wars fan and all, and you know, the soundtrack and all).

Jon