CoS Behind the Scenes

[Richelle Votaw]

I just got the Australian promo DVD in the mail today that I ordered from Ebay, and have just taken the time to watch the Behind the Scenes clips.  Wow.  Must've been close to twenty minutes, starting with the Slytherin common room, mostly of Tom Felton there.  

Then it goes into the deleted scene that's not on the DVD, which I'd seen tons of pictures from and been curious about.  It's the one in the Gyrffindor Common Room where Hermione and Harry are sitting at the table and Ron's standing by it with his broken wand and Scabbers.  They were having the conversation they had out in the walkway after hearing about the Chamber from McGonagall.  About Malfoy being the heir of Slytherin and the polyjuice potion.  So apparently they decided they didn't like it in Gryffindor Common room and moved it outside.  Since the lines were all the same.  But that cleared up my curiousity over that missing scene!

Then it moves along to the conversation following the dueling club where the trio discusses parseltongue.  That part was fascinating to me, the cameramen were circulating looking at various angles with Chris Columbus, I'm amazed at how those kids can go on about their business with so many people breathing down their necks.  I'm impressed.  They had the other Gryffindors walk through and look warily at Harry.  Which looked rather pathetic, they were all in a nice neat row (do you know what I have to do to get my kids to walk in line like that?) Then there were also the dueling club scenes, which is interesting from CC talking to Alan Rickman (and commenting on how excellent his "Malfoy, perhaps?" bit was) to the guy catching Daniel Radcliffe after Malfoy's spell.  

And yes, the bit with Jason Isaacs cane catching Daniel Radcliffe's collar was on there.  A better view than I had seen on the interview with Isaacs too.  Better sound too.  I know I'm pathetic, but Jason Isaacs "Ooh, ooh, ooh" when he realized the cane was caught in Dan's collar was too funny.

I know I'm forgetting some stuff, I know there was a clip with Rupert hitting the ground after his spell backfired.  

Anyway, this DVD is great, I've had a great time watching it, hope I haven't bored you too much with my review!

Richelle


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