Chris Columbus on -- <gasp>Oh, No! -- Harry's eyes

[Nia]

 Lilac wrote:
> 
<snip> (Comments about discussion)<<<*TLC*: There's been some 
wavering in Dan's eye color; there have been some shots in trailers 
of it as green, then some as blue - why even waver at this point? 
> 
> CC: We never changed it. It's only lighting. What happens in the 
first movie is we talked about digitally changing every shot to 
green. But if you look at a human being, I mean, nobody really 
studies it until you make a film, you can't, people with blue eyes, 
particularly, in a room like this they'll go dark and almost look 
brown. If you take them outside they're bright blue. Put them on a 
set like the Chamber of Secrets, they'll go greener, because the 
sequence itself is green. So we didn't touch it, I swear to you. 
There's nothing that's been altered. The first movie, our effects 
people said, we barely have time to finish the movie, turning his 
eyes green in every shot is not going to work.
> 
>> So it was a time issue.  <snip> 

Me:
  Tut tut, Lilac, you must have missed both Helen and my heartfelt 
apologies.  Qv. Msg 3575 and 3576.  In messages of this kind, one 
cannot read emotion or intent.  Neither of our comments were meant 
to be malicious or demeaning in any way.  I have a rather wicked 
sense of humor and online, since no one can see when I am teasing or 
being a bit sarcastic, and the winking emoticon is not exactly 
right, I can come off as a bit sniffy.  Both our objections were to 
arguments which basically repeated themselves.  It didn't seem as if 
anyone was considering what had already been said, that is all.  
Really, I'm a very nice person.  
Now, this post is interesting and merits some discussion.  I think, 
perhaps Columbus' comments would squelch the idea about CG-ing in 
green eyes and the mysterious changes in Daniel's eye color in the 
third trailer.  It will be interesting to see if the environmental 
influences Columbus discusses will be at all distracting during the 
film.  I think that knowing what to expect and exactly why Daniel's 
eyes will remain blue, will greatly ease canon-based fans' anxieties.
--Nia