[HPFGU-Movie] Dan in duel and Dueling positions

[artsylynda at aol.com]

B_boy:

> So if you 'upstage someone, does that mean YOU move toward (down
> stage) the audience or away (up stage) from the audience?
> 
> And from movies and TV, I've always gotten the idea that someone
> upstaging you was a bad thing, but I fail to see the 'badness' of it.
> 
> 

"upstaging" means you move upstage so the person with whom you're doing the 
scene with winds up with his back to the audience.

In the case of the duel, I don't think upstaging would've been such a problem 
because it was being filmed (so the cameras could move around, rather than 
having the forced "single POV" from watching a stage production), and each 
actor was shown from a 3/4 front angle, not a profile.  So even if they'd 
both taken Harry's stance, for instance, Draco would've still been seen 
decently (not just from his back) and with the (admittedly nice) fencing 
moves he made (hmm, Lucius must have coached him at home, for him to know 
those. . .), he wouldn't have been "covered up" at all.  I think it possible 
that Snape and Malfoy's postion was a more powerful one designed for casting 
more powerful spells (or maybe it's just "Slytherin Style").  Gilderoy is a 
fop, a fraud and a liar and probably had done very little dueling, and when 
he did, it was for "show" not with serious intent to harm (possibly true of 
both participants in any duels he was in before this one), so taking what may 
be (I'm not sure, since I'm not a wizard nor a fencer) a "weaker" position 
(???) is just his way.  Harry hates Snape, and he has had no duelling 
training whatsoever, so in the pinch he was in, copying Lockhart's style is 
his only option (not knowing what else to do, and not wanting to copy Snape). 
 Anyway, that's my take on it -- I was just wondering what the rest of you 
thought about it when I posed my question.  Thanks for the discussion! ;->

Lynda 
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"Don't let  the Muggles get you down." Ron Weasley PoA


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