[HPFGU-Movie] Re: centaur dialogue

[Tandy, Heidi]

The line by Firenze "Here is where I leave you," is an exampl of a line that
hewed exactly to the book but without the surrounding context of Harry
traveling on Firenze it doesn't make sense. In the book, the Centaurs'
dialogue has the same framework, linguistically, as humans, in contrast to
House Elves who have a different syntax. 
I assume that the CG was done for that bit of dialogue before they had
determined that they couldn't / wouldn't include Harry riding Firenze, and
changing it would've been cost prohibitive. 
Too bad they couldn't just get rid of "is where" as it would've worked that
way.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Wanda Sherratt <sherratt at mediaone.net>
To: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com <HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Mon Nov 26 14:53:50 2001
Subject: [HPFGU-Movie] Re: (hopefully new) Movie Comments

Real-To:  "Wanda Sherratt" <sherratt at mediaone.net>

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "Gabriel Edson" <feycat at f...> wrote:
> He says "Here is where I leave you, Harry Potter." Excuse me? He 
didn't TAKE Harry anywhere. That's a prime example of very poor 
editing if you ask me!
> 
I don't understand why everyone has such a problem with this line - it 
didn't strike me as odd at all.  Is it the word "here" or is it 
"leave" that makes the difficulty?  Both of the them work, it seems to 
me.  I read "here" as referring to that moment in time, not location; 
the way one would say "Now here's where Harry and Malfoy go into the 
Forest and find the dead unicorn."  And "leave" is just "taking one's 
leave", or departing, as in "John, I'm leaving you."  Sure, it worked 
originally when the centaur had carried Harry on a journey and then 
put him down, but it works in this context too.  It's not exactly what 
I would say in such a situation, but I figure centaurs talk a little 
more poetically than humans.

Wanda




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