[HPFGU-Movie] susan bones & green eyes

[Richelle Votaw]

skywings writes:

> Just wondering if anyone else was a bit annoyed with Chris Columbus
> (as good as he was directing PS/SS and I'm sure CoS) when he just
> had to keep including his daughter who played Susan Bones in scenes
> a Hufflepuff wasn't really supposed to be in? For example, in
> Snape's class, wasn't Gryffindor paired with Slytherin?

I don't really mind him casting his daughter, though I do wonder about her
sitting by Hermione so much.  Although if you watch the uniforms in the
first movie, you'll find all four houses in pretty much every class.

> Also, what's the story with Harry's green eyes? He's always had
> green eyes in the books but in the films they're blue and, as far as
> I can see, only turn green sometimes. Was that an error?
> Inappropriate to get a young kid to wear contacts and too expensive
> to change them digitally in every scene? Just curious to know some
> behind the scenes tid bits.

Well, here's how the story goes.  At the beginning of SS/PS they tried to
put Daniel in green contacts.  He couldn't wear them, they irritated his
eyes too much.  So they left his eyes alone.  At the end of the film,
according to Chris Columbus, they intended to change them digitally, but
didn't have the time.  So they left them alone.  And again, according to
Chris Columbus they didn't touch his eyes at all in CoS.  Regardless of how
green they look at times.  Although I would swear that someone touched them
up in that Flourish and Blotts scene on the international trailer.  Chris
Columbus claims they appear green in certain scenes due to the green
surroundings, such as the chamber itself.  Although all the pictures in the
Chamber I've seen show Daniel's brilliant blue eyes, thy don't look the
least bit green to me.  And in Flourish and Blotts he was surrounded by
black, not green, so that can't be it.  Apparently the color of the eyes
wasn't important enough for JKR to insist upon them being green.  I
personally think it's not the color of Harry's eyes that will be special,
but that he does indeed have his mother's eyes.  So that in the movie they
could, in essence, say that Harry has his mother's *blue* eyes instead of
his mother's *green* eyes.  I think. :)

Richelle

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