[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Chris Columbus on -- <gasp>Oh, No! -- Harry's eyes

[Richelle Votaw]

DeNece writes:

> It also seems to me that Chris Columbus's comment that they didn't
> change the eye colour green *in every shot*, went over the heads of
> some repliers and is being interpeted as meaning Daniel's blue eyes
> were not changed at all.  I took his comment to mean that Harry's
> eyes are meant to appear green when they would be noticed (or when it
> was important to know they are green) and they let the natural colour
> fluctuations of the surroundings and lighting take care of the rest.

Here is the exact quote from Chris Columbus on the eyes:

"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 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 twice in that quote he emphasizes that they never changed Daniel's eyes.
Once with "We never changed it."  The second time with "So we didn't touch
it, I swear to you.  There's nothing that's been altered."  What he said
about "turning his eyes green in every shot is not going to work" was
talking about the first movie, when they ran out of time.

Although what on earth CC was talking about by saying they'd look green on a
set like the chamber due to the sequence being green I don't know.  I mean,
I know what he meant, but in the pictures from that scene Daniel's eyes are
standing out vividly blue.  Not green.  In fact, I can't ever remember a
picture (except the international trailer, of course) when they weren't
blue.  His eyes are so vividly blue they don't change as much as normal blue
eyes do.  Like Rupert's.  His sometimes look blue, sometimes grey, sometimes
brown.

Okay, yes, I know, I promised not to talk about eyes any more.  Sorry!

Richelle


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