I dream of Moody

[Anne]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Tasukibeth/Wufei" 
<Tasukibeth1 at c...> wrote:
> Mad-eye is one of my favorite characters, and I have enjoyed 
skimming 
> the posts to see who looked good to me. For some reason, none of 
> them...felt right to me. 
> 
> So I was thinking...thinking..............errrrr...thinking (this 
is 
> hard)! 

> Bob Hoskins - not old enough, and a bit too short.

Bob was my original first choice for Mad-Eye... Short doesn't matter; 
Robbie Coltrane is a bit too short to play Hagrid, and John Rhys-
Davies is way too tall to play Gimli in LOTR :-)

> 
> which leads my to my two suggestions (I love them both so much, I 
> can't decide - and feel free to shoot'em down if you disagree:-) )
> 
> (1) Malcolm McDowell. He's old enough, he's one of the creepiest 
men 
> on the planet, amd his career could use a bit of a boost.
> 
> or...
> 
> (2) Jeremy Irons!!! Scary, grizzled, and very intimidating. I can 
> TOTALLY see him growling "Constant Vigilance!"

I love both of these guys, but Jeremy just seems a tad too suave and 
good-looking for Mad-Eye. Malcolm McDowell, though, already has a 
stack of roles in which he has played guys who are more than a tad 
unhinged. He's already grizzled looking, and can be very intimidating 
(I'm remembering his wacked-out performance in one of the Star Trek 
movies a few years ago...). Okay, so now I'm torn between Bob Hoskins 
(mostly for his comedic talents) and Malcolm McDowell...

Anne U
(can imagine either of them growling "Constant vigilance!!")