Sets and Locations

[susanbones2003 <rdas@facstaff.wisc.edu>]

> Do you have a post brewing on the experience of seeing Harry up 
there, 
> moving, talking, existing at Hogwarts? Bring it on!!! I'd love to 
hear someone 
> else's experience (to know that I'm not nuts, you know....)--I 
think it's terrific 
> too. I see the movie not for the plot, but just to BE THERE, in 
that place, with 
> those people...  :-)

You know Sophia, et. al., this is the stuff of a PhD. thesis on the 
power of the visual to somehow block other parts of our brains from 
working as per normal. Nope, I don't have the all the stuff that's in 
my head down on paper yet. But I will say this, can you remember the 
first time you saw Ron's house, all the things going on, the dishes 
being magically washed, the knitting knitting itself, the scrub 
wooden table, the very humbleness of the house? Didn't you feel like 
you were home somehow? It was all RIGHT!!! That was such a powerful 
set of images. As sad as I was to see the storyline almost freeze-
dried (just add water maybe...)the visuals sucked me into that world 
totally. Knockturn Alley (Harry covered in soot...)Flourish and 
Blots, all cramped with books and middle-aged witches drooling over 
Kenneth Brannaugh...It felt so real!! I guess that's the killing 
thing!! They got the look and feel so right!! It's seductive I tell 
you. The visual medium is so seductive. Maybe being a filmmaker, you 
get used to that power and it becomes your primary tool, and Chris 
has just gotten better and better at it. Remember how 
Christmassy "Home Alone" was, down to the last detail? 
Cheers,
JenD