POA filming story

[torillgrnhaug]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "irene_mikhlin"
<irene_mikhlin at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, CLShannon at a... wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> > Go to:
> > http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/
> > There's a story from a Swedish newspaper on the filming and it's
> full of 
> > great comments and insights that we haven't seen before ;-)
> 
> Why, oh why, everyone gets so excited about the modern clothes, like
> it's an obviously great thing? I, for one, hate it.
> Have you ever noticed that you can't really watch a movie from the
> seventies without thinking all the time how ridiculous the clothes
> are? That what will happen to Harry Potter movies in 20 years, instead
> for being timeless they are tied up now to a passing teenage style.
> 
> I'm really glad the children are up for the fourth movie. And the
> stupid WB have bigger things to worry about than them being one year
> too old - 
> like, how to reconcile the ridiculous Hagrid love-fest in the CoS with
> the fact that not only Slytherins but Ravenclaws are very happy not to
> have him around in book 5.
> 
> Irene

I loved the article too. We were righit, it was the dementor scene!
And so exciting to read about Cuaróns filming style, almost no close
ups, and long takes as we have heard before -
He really has a different filming style than Columbus, hasn't he!!
Columbus has this slightly boring three pace thing: first a wide shot
zooming in on whoever is to be in the scene coming walking in, then
close up to the one who speaks, close up to the other that speaks,
cut, new wide shot, preferably from above, zooming in.... 

This is going to be so much better!! And more than 40 takes, poor
kids! I was smiling about Dan's comment on Alfonso's "mildly
insisting style that suits the material" the kid's only 14 and he
speaks like this!! Is he cute or what!! (he said in Vanity fair that
he hates being patronized, hope he doesn't read this...) Or
maybe it was the translation, from English to Swedish and back again
that made it sound like that..

About clothes - absolutely fine with them. Clothes are a VERY minor
theme in the books, so it's ok to let the kids wear the kind of muggle
clothes that they do today, and not put too much effort into that. Put
the effort into the wizarding things. You can never make the films
timeless anyway, sooner or later the style that seems timeless to us
will look oldfashioned and strange to later generations. There is no
point in trying to hide the fact that the film is made in 2003/4, that
will be detected anyway. 

And the kids are back for GoF, hooray!!

Torill