SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER (mini-review)

[fionap19]

Dear Alan
> seems to have decided to camp it up a bit. When he says
> (paraphrasing)"perhaps someone from my own house would be more
> suitable (than Neviile, to demonstrate a duel)he does a gesture 
which is sooo funny coming from him. It's a sort of exagerated shrug 
from the elbows - you'll see what I mean when you see the movie. I 
think maybe he felt obliged to keep up with Branagh as lockhart in 
terms of animated performance.>  
> Snapesangel


I'm afraid the gesture of Alan Rickman's Snape in the duelling scene 
is going to be mis-interpreted "across the pond"!  The way I see his 
action is quite simply he is "taking the mickey" out of the 
exagerrated gestures of Lockhart and by mimicking them shows Lockhart 
that he (Snape) is more than aware that is all put on for show!  

Think of some of the snide supercilious comments Snape comes out with 
in canon and, for example, the way he reads out the whole of Rita 
Skeeter's article about the Harry/Hermione/Krum triangle from Witch 
Weekly to the entire potions class! 

No in my opinion, Snape was being visually sarcastic in his actions 
and not Alan Rickman trying to keep up with Branagh.

Fiona Potter