[HPFGU-Movie] (hopefully new) Movie Comments

[Natalie]

codex79 at yahoo.com wrote:
> Overall, the movie was darker and more grown-up than I expected,
> especially for book 1.

Saw it for the fourth time today with my mom, and she commented several
times (first when encountering Fluffy, and other various times) that she was
suprised it was so scary. As we were walking out, she said that she would
have be really scared if she had seen this as a child. Of course, she's also
a wuss (she cried at the end too...but I knew she would...<g>)

> And the chess game ... yeah, I loved it too. But, doesn't the chess
> board seem much smaller than normal (i.e. fewer squares between the
> two sides)? And, while the destruction is certainly impressive and
> all, I preferred the book-version where they just get knocked down.
> After all, if the chess pieces destroy each other, how do you play a
> second game? Where's the litter after Quirrell was done with the game?
> And I guess, in the movie, some positions were already empty so the
> challenger couldn't choose their own piece?

I made sure to count the squares a couple of times today. It is indeed 8x8
(which is normal size, right?) It does look smaller though--maybe because
the pieces are so big.

I would imagine that wizards use a Repairo spell after a game. Otherwise,
you'd have to buy a new set after every game. You can see broken chess
pieces in the pits off to the sides of the board when the Trio walk in. So,
those are probably the pieces whose spaces are empty (Quirrel no t bothering
to repair them after he was done, and it being a pretty short game).
Actually, they may purposely have been left empty as an added security
measure. You'd need more than one person to get through that task. Of
course, that doesn't explain how Quirrel got through.

Natalie
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