[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Azkaban Casting Rumor

[Amanda Geist]

> > Albus Dumbledore - Peter O'Toole, Ian Mckellen or CGI
>
> I have yet to see O'Toole in something I liked.

Because (a) you haven't seen a lot of movies with him in them, or (b) you
didn't like the movies he was in, or (c) his acting was not up to par?

I've seen him in movies I didn't like, where he and his acting were
nonetheless superb. And I maintain as I have from the first, that he is as
meant to play Dumbledore as Alan Rickman was to play Snape. I always
considered Richard Harris miscast for that role.

> Ian McKellan?  I  just don't know.....I don't know if I want Gandalf
running around  the corridors of Hogwarts.....

We agree. McKellan in long white hair and beard now and forever will be
Gandalf, no matter where you put him.

>  CGI Dumbledore?  Wow, hadn't thought of that, but I'm not sure I
> like it.

I'm sure I *don't.* The state of CGI is not such that it can be seamlessly
inserted into a cast of real humans without jarring. It's okay enough for
minor parts like Dobby, where it's not a human face you're creating, but to
make a human face, with all its subtlety and that intangible person-ness
that we begin to clue onto as babies, satisfactorily enough for such a major
role? I don't think so.

~Amanda, the ever-opinionated (and ready to suggest a few good Peter O'Toole
movies...)