Harry's hair & his (sometimes) green eyes

[Diana <dianasdolls@yahoo.com>]

I did notice when I first watched SS that Harry's hair wasn't quite 
as dishelved as usually described in the book, but after a while I 
didn't even notice.  Now I'm kind of glad they didn't make his hair 
too wild all the time or it might have been too distracting to the 
action going on in the movie.  As for the color, I agree the film 
makers could have insisted that Radcliffe dye his hair black for 
better conformity to the books' Harry, but I can't blame them for 
not wanting to make an 11-year-old dye his hair.  Chris Colombus is 
always being described as a kid-friendly director (plus he has four 
of his own), so I can imagine him being the one who refused to 
insist on a dye job.  

With all the mentions on the list of how Daniel Radcliffe's hair 
isn't quite as unruly as Harry's hair is described in the books, I'd 
thought I'd bring up a small thing that annoys me considerably.  

I'm talking about the blue eyes Harry has in most scenes of the 
movie.  Don't get me wrong - Daniel Radcliffe's eyes are a beautiful 
blue (see more on this below), but Harry's eyes are *supposed* to be 
brilliant green!  

With what SFX people can do nowadays, they could easily have changed 
Harry's eye color to brilliant green consistently within every frame 
of the movie.  But, for some reason they didn't and Harry's eyes are 
pale green in some scenes and pale blue (Dan's real eye color) in 
others.  I wish the filmaker's had shown more consistency with 
Harry's eye color, especially since Harry's eye color *may* have 
some signifigance to the story later on. 

Of course, Daniel Radcliffe can't help his eye color and the movie 
would never have been made if they'd held out for a Daniel Radcliffe 
twin with brilliant green eyes.  :)  But I do hope that eye color 
anomaly is fixed in PoA. 

A quick word about Daniel Radcliffe's eye color - they are quite a 
lovely blue, aren't they?  When I saw his eye color I began thinking 
about how many actors have blue eyes.  I've noticed many of the top-
paid and most popular stars have noticably blue eyes.  I think this 
is because blue eyes photograph really well.  Green eyes photograph 
fairly well too, but blue eyes really dazzle when lighted and 
photographed well.  Plus blue eyes really attract a person's 
attention - I know I notice eye color a lot.  I think other people 
really notice eye colors as well because both my children have blue 
eyes and strangers constantly comment on their blue eyes.  I've even 
had a few comments on my own rather boring green eyes, so I'm 
thinking most people just really like looking at eye color.   I've 
noticed those deep, rich brown eye colors as well that some people 
are so lucky to have.  

Diana -wishing I had brilliant green eyes