product placement, Quidditch wasps

[frantyck at yahoo.com]

Someone mentioned being pleased about the absence of product 
placement in the film. Someone else mentioned, a while ago, that all 
the cars on Privet Drive are Vauxhalls. Not sure who it was noticed 
that, and I don't know what Vauxhalls look like.

Is this true? The cars *were* made extra-obvious in the Privet Drive 
scenes, specially highlighted and so forth. A little distracting, 
but forgivable.

And: during the Quidditch match, all that buzzing and the particular 
way in which humans seem to hang and sway on the broomsticks 
reminded me strongly of the way *wasps* fly, swaying and with their 
legs dangling beneath. They also seem to keep what pass for "hands" 
up close in front, like the Quidditch players.

Perhaps the spesh-effects people used wasp-flight to visualise 
broomstick flight?

The use of insect flight is also strikingly recalled in the flying 
keys scene. It's a stream of hornets, with the spiky wings. The way 
they thudded into the door... I also appreciated the way the keys 
became 'activated' and deadly as soon as Dan-Harry touched the 
broomstick.

Rrishi