[HPFGU-Movie] Lupin casting?

[ArtsyLynda at aol.com]

GulPlum:
> when (not if) Oldman and Rickman go into 
> scenery-chewing mode (which they both do VERY, VERY well), he'll just get 
> chewed up and spat out along with the furniture, unless he goes into manic 
> overdrive himself, which will be totally against the character - I really 
> don't think he can compete with them!
> 
> (I would really like to be a fly on the wall when they do those scenes - I 
> expect the kids are going to have a whale of a time!)
> 
I, too, would LOVE to be a fly on the wall for those scenes!  One of the 
reasons I like Alan Rickman is that he's SO good at "scenery-chewing," LOL!  
He, Kenneth Branaugh, and the guy who played Lucius Malfoy (name escapes me 
at present, sorry), all are like that -- I'm sure it was a lot of fun to 
watch them before the director got them to tone it down!  And Oldman's size 
really is a problem to me, as well as his appearance -- a boxer or wrestler 
type would be a lot more like Sirius in his well-fed days, but he's been 
starved, so it needs to be a man with at least a large frame (big boned, 
tall, wide-shouldered), not well-muscled and filled out.  How could Oldman 
possibly turn into a BIG dog?!  Especially a black dog.  I just don't see it. 
 

On where to break the two movies of GoF -- there are a lot of good arguments 
being presented here, and I think, upon further reflection, that breaking it 
when Ron and Harry have made up IS the best choice (haven't read GoF in a few 
weeks -- working my way through the books start to finish again, just started 
PoA again).  There needs to be that kind of reconciliation at the end, IMHO.  
But having two movies does give us more Potter to hold us up until the next 
book arrives!  ;->  So I'm hoping for two movies.  We'll just build more DVD 
storage if they do two or three movies of all the rest of the books, LOL!

Lynda 
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"Don't let  the Muggles get you down." Ron Weasley PoA


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