Dobby & being picky

[joanne0012]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "Saitaina" <saitaina at w...> wrote:
> Sommmwho didnt' put their name wrote:
> 
> <Dobby is a weirder shape 
> than the Gringott's goblins, hence the animation rather than actors, but still 
he's 
> at least equally deserving of being portrayed as a, um, humanoid.>
> 
> Why should be be portrayed as humanoid?  He's not.  He's a house-elf. A 
seperate creature then all you named before.  I think Dobby's rather spot on.  
Large eyes, squashed nose...everything fits.  The movie makers only have so 
much to go on and they choose an image (Dobby's illistrations from the US 
editions) that a great deal of people identify with.  Although I'm a little sick of 
every CGI'd character being an odd greyish colour that's my only complant.
> 

I guess "humanoid" wasn't the best choice of words, I was trying to encompass 
all the bipedal, intelligent-enough-to-speak creatures in the WW.  I'm well aware 
that house-elves aren't human beings, but nevertheless Dobby is a person, not a 
machine or an animal, and he just looks too mechanical and implausible.  It's not 
the shape of his face that's a problem for me, I'm fine with GrandPre's 
illustration and with the film Dobby's general configuration, it's more that he just 
doesn't look like a *real* anything.  Those CGI guys can make real-looking 
dinosaurs, they could have made Dobby less, well, fakey.  Maybe he was done in 
too much of a hurry, like the very unfortunate centaur in PS/SS.