[HPFGU-Movie] SPOILER; CoS review, the good and the bad

[Richelle Votaw]

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Nicholas writes:

> I concluded that Columbus had had his way on that, over Heyman's advice. I
> cannot *ever* imagine British teenagers acting like that. Utterly wrong.
> How do you think they should have ended the movie?

I must say, as much as I loved PS/SS I don't think a time went by when I
didn't say "Harry's not *supposed* to hug Hagrid!"  Still, that ending
sounds a bit better than the cheesyness of CoS sounds!

> I don't really agree about DR's acting; I think that he has it in him, but
> I also think that Columbus doesn't manage to bring it out. I noticed in
> PS/SS that it's always worth watching DR's eyes;

Strongly agreed there.  Daniel's eyes are incredibly expressive.
Incredibly.  He most definitely has it in him, in fact, have you seen the
David Copperfield he did pre-HP?  He was very convincing, heart wrenching
and everything.  I don't think Columbus (as much as I liked him) was the
best for bringing out his emotions.  I think perhaps a change of director
will help him in that sense.

> he manages to convey
> emotion very well with them, but his body-language is not as eloquent. I

That's the main problem I ever had with DR's acting--his body language isn't
natural at times.

> found the body-language better in CoS (though he still flaps his hands
> about on occasion; Columbus should have cured that by now) but didn't
> really observe his eyes too closely; will watch out for that next time
> around.

About that hand flapping thing--did you see him on TRL?  He actually does
that in real life. :)  I'm sure it had something to do with being nervous,
though.  It's greatly toned down in the movie.

Richard wrote:

> >- Parseltongue. I knew from the hype that Dan was going to be
> >speaking it rather than English on screen. I didn't like the idea
> >before seeing the film, and I still don't. The film's dialogue makes
> >a direct reference to the first film's snake scene, during which
> >Harry spoke (and heard) English, so I simply couldn't work out why
> >this should change.

This is one thing I really don't understand.  I mean, we always seem to hear
what Harry hears.  Thus the voice in the wall and so on.   Harry heard
English, we should've heard English.  He didn't know he was speaking
parseltongue until Ron and Hermione told him.  It should've been the same
for us.  I mean, when they get to PoA we've got to hear what Harry hears
when he has flashbacks, right?  Screams and all.

Back to Nicholas:

> Overall, I wasn't exactly spellbound by CoS; however, I seem to remember
> feeling the same about PS/SS, and that one definitely grew on me. I'll
> probably see CoS again next weekend. I've only managed to see it three
> times already.

Is that all?  Only three times?  After all, it hasn't even been released to
the general public yet!  As for PS/SS I liked it the first time I saw it,
but hadn't even read the books yet.  After reading the books and rewatching
(a zillion times) PS/SS I now LOVE it.  In fact, I have it on right now,
just to listen to if nothing else.

Richelle