Quotes about Daniel Radcliffe

[Anne <urbana@charter.net>]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "eudaemonia_splinched 
<splinched at h...>" <splinched at h...> wrote:
>> Mind you, I'm a fan of Radcliffe myself, but after reading the 
book I 
> don't know if the character Harry Potter was meant to be so deep or 
> mature. I'm one of those people who watched the movie first, got 
> drawn in, started reading the books and... well... noticed a 
> significant difference in the movie version of Harry. So I can 
> understand why some reviewers can perceive Daniel's portrayal of 
the 
> character as being unanimated.
> 
> But that would be the fault of the director wouldn't it? Whether it 
> was in (sorry to say & hopefully not) casting the wrong actor or 
> misdirecting them in the scene, the movie Harry isn't faithful the 
> the character in the book (who's a bit angrier, talks and fights 
> back, etc). And that *was* one of Columbus' main concerns, wasn't 
it? 
> Maintaining faithfulness to the book?

I would agree that some of the "deepening" of Harry is definitely the 
work of director Chris Columbus. At the end of the video of Harry 
Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (at least the American video), there 
are several scenes, or perhaps alternate takes, that were cut from 
the movie. One in particular caught my attention - when Snape was 
picking on Harry in Potions class and asking him all those questions 
and Harry kept saying "I don't know." And Snape said "Clearly, fame 
isn't everything." That's where the scene ends in the movie - but in 
the alternate take, Harry then shoots back (very snarky), "Clearly, 
Hermione knows the answer; why don't you ask her?" I thought that 
take was great - so I guess it was Columbus' call to use a different, 
more subdued take that frankly only trimmed maybe 15 seconds from the 
film's length.

 
> It would be very interesting to see Alfonso Cuaron's version. I'd 
> like to see how he can realistically transform the still and mature 
> version of Columbus' Harry into the raging-angry-orphaned-teen 
Harry 
> confronting Sirius in the Shrieking Shack.
 
Oh, by the time that scene is filmed, Daniel will be almost 14 ... I 
think hormones alone will enable him to dig into the raging-angry-
orphaned-teen Harry ;-)

BTW ... there are days I wish I was 14 again ...:-)
http://www.qubefactor.com/radnet/pictures/danchinapics/star_news-
20021222-1207-4.jpg

Anne U
(yes, remembering those 14-year-old swoony days fondly ;-)