Snape in CoS

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "susanbones2003 <rdas at f...>"
<rdas at f...> wrote:
> ... In his first scene, Alan Rickman looks ill. Like he just had 
> all his wisdom teeth out or something. Next scene he's in, he looks 
> fine,.... .. that first scene .. he confronts Harry and Ron just back 
> from ... with the Whomping Willow, his face is very weird, pale, paler 
> than normal and puffy. ...edited...
> JenD

bboy_mn:

Well, I will agree with the puffy part. He seems to have gained
weight; his face looks full and his neck looked fat.

Having said that, I think part of it was the way he played the scene,
which I thought was all wrong. You will notice he is crouching, sort
of stoop shouldered, as he moves around his desk and he sort of had
his head pulled back and down which made his neck look fat. I think he
was going for the mean nasty old teacher look, but it didn't create
the intimidating powerful look that Snape needs to have. Even the
camera angle accented the crouched nasty wizard look.

In PS/SS, in the first potions scene, Snape stands tall, his voice is
somewhat soft but intimidating none the less. The camera angle create
the impression that he is both figuratively and literally looking down
his nose at Harry Potter. That's exactly how he should have played the
after the Whomping Willow scene. Standing tall, looking arrogant
instead of nasty, his anger should have radiated a force of power. He
should have towered over Harry and Ron making them cower against his
anger. 

I think this attempt a looking mean and nasty instead made him look
like he just drank some sour milk. 

Just a few thought on something that has always bugged me.

bboy_mn