Random thoughts about the movie, etc. -- Cuaron

[Ginny Powell]

I've only seen the film once so far.  I hope I'm still qualified to 
comment. :-)

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "GulPlum" <plumeski at y...> wrote:
>This is a basic failing on Columbus's part: he just loves putting 
his 
>camera in a crane so much that we're perpetually looking down on 
the 
>kids (intercut with ultra-close ups of their faces). 

I felt CC used the camera in "creative ways" to avoid showing the 
kids standing next to the adults.  Why?  Because they were taller 
than many of them!  Or at least of a comparable height, and since 
often the scene depends on the adult looking down and oozing 
authority, this is important.  It is also necessary in scenes with 
Hagrid, since Coltrane isn't nearly as tall as Hagrid is supposed to 
be.  CC had already established the use of weird angles to try to 
make him look taller in PS/SS.

Ginny (not THAT Ginny), whose 5-year-old is convinced she's a 
Parseltongue