[HPFGU-Movie] Digest Number 653

[Sara]

Message: 17
   Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 17:09:22 -0500
   From: "Richelle Votaw" <rvotaw at i-55.com>
Subject: Re: Lupin/Sirius

Nicole wrote:

> Daniel looks fabulous (isn't it illegal to look that
good at that
> age???)

Isn't he still in the "adorabley cute stage?"  (I
know, it's probably
spelled wrong, not a word I often spell)

> Gary Oldman as Sirius is perfect...just the way I
imagined him!

I must say I agree.  I was disappointed at the first
casting of Gary 
Oldman,
but after seeing his diversity I thought I'd give him
a chance.  He 
looks
fantastic.

> David Thewlis as Lupin is a BIG let down...I love
Lupin so much and
> he just doesn't look the part (IMHO). I had my heart
set on more of
> a Gabriel Byrne type of guy.

I agree.  I'm trying to give him a chance, but his
clothes don't even 
look
right.  What on earth is he wearing?    I had him
pictured as Viggo
Mortensen (out of Aragorn get up).  Which, ironically,
I pictured 
Sirius as
Viggo Mortensen IN Aragorn style. :)  To think the
money they could've 
saved
only getting one person.  (Kidding!)

Count me as yet another person whose dream Sirius is
Viggo Mortensen. I know that no human being would be
able to maintain stunning looks after 12 years in a
prison where the guards suck the happiness out of you,
but I did imagine a Sirius much like Viggo's Aragorn
in appearance: rough, careworn, unshaven, with long,
rather filthy hair - but a handsome face still visible
beneath the grime and pain and turmoil. Viggo's a
great actor, he could have pulled off the whole
package - but I must say that I was VERY pleasantly
surprised by the picture of Oldman. I know he's an
excellent actor, but I was worried about whether or
not he could look the part. I found nothing in the
picture to complain about, and the tattoos/brands are
a very nice touch.

But Lupin... please, someone - anyone - explain to me
why he's dressed like my high school algebra teacher!
I thought Thewlis was a promising choice for the role,
especially having seen "Naked" where he's very scruffy
looking - and wasn't it implied that Lupin too was a
bit rough around the edges, a bit unkempt? And maybe
I'm the only one, but I just can't imagine that Lupin
would ever dress like that, leisure day off of work or
not. Rowling always described his tattered robes, and
those notwithstanding, I would still imagine Lupin to
dress in a bit of an eccentric manner, perhaps? A
little bit of this, a little bit of that. In that
picture, it looks as if he's just put down his pipe -
God forbid he's also wearing loafers. Are we to
believe that the other professors, too, leave their
robes behind when they travel away from the castle?
Does Snape, perhaps, don a pair of khakis and a
sweater he ordered from J. Crew?

The kids wearing Muggle clothes I can tolerate
(although the fabulous wizard wear and the Hogwarts
uniforms are one of the things that, to me, separated
the magical world from the mundane, everyday one) -
but on Lupin, it seems a very poor, uncharacteristic
choice.

Sara Edhelwen

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