Fwd: NEWS - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

[Anne <urbana@charter.net>]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "c_voth312 <divaclv at a...>" 
<divaclv at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Taryn Kimel" <amani at c...> 
wrote:
> > Me:
> > From what I've heard, there are lots of really simple filming 
> tricks to make actors look taller or shorter. I should expect that 
if 
> it's felt needed to make Oldman seem taller, it'd be very simple to 
> do so. (I'm among those who love the idea of Oldman and Sirius, and 
> think that he /is/ goodlooking if you find the right pictures. He's 
> just purposely made to look unattractive in many of the movie's 
he's 
> been in.)
> > 
> 
> Four words: "Lord of the Rings."  There's some excellent examples 
of 
> foreshortening and other height tricks there, especially in at the 
> beginning of LotR with Gandalf and the hobbits.  

John Rhys-Davies (who in RL is probably about as big as Robbie 
Coltrane) said that in playing Gimli the dwarf in LOTR, he shot most 
of his scenes on his knees :-)

Anne
(who should find a better picture of Robert Hardy, because he is 
really a WONDERFUL, very suave, actor, and I've never seen him play 
anyone like Fudge before)