Throwing off the blanket

[Megan]

<Angela wrote:>

> The Quirrell/Voledemort sequence was absolutely brilliant, and was when
> I stopped comparing the movie to the book in my head. How absolutely
> clever for Voldemort to summon the images of Lily and James to tempt
> Harry with. My nephew had watched most of the scarier sequences peeking
> from behind his fingers. Strangely, this was the one scene where he sat
> rapt with attention, and I was the scared one, as Quirrell burned and
> cracked right before my eyes. He was delighted that the bad guy
> crumbled, and I was riveted by how well it was portrayed, watching
> Quirrell be destroyed. And the part where Voldemort's essence/spirit/?
> passed through Harry and knocked him down was a brilliant touch.

I think /I/ sat with more bated breath & expressions of shock during
this scene than half the kids in the theatre!  I have to agree that
this was one of the better-than-in-book scenes of this movie.  It also
just seems to work better with the storyline.  Even though I didn't
like how they did the face of Voldemort, this has definitely become
one of the stand-out scenes of the movie.  Towards the end I was
wondering how they were going to make Harry pass out since Quirrel was
exploding (while I was sitting there thinking, "This is a kids' movie!
 I didn't know this could happen in a kids' movie!") into tiny shards.
 The visual affect of Voldemort's "spirit" moving on with no host-body
was more stunning than the written words of JKR in this scene.

-Megan (who is trying to sort out a time to see it again!)