Shrunken Heads, Hunchbacks and Dumbledores

[Eustace_Scrubb]

cincimaelder wrote:
> I didn't really mind the shrunken head, but it was the Jamaican
accent
> I could have done without.  I just don't invision many house elves
> having a Jamaican accent(hee hee).  I thought the Jamaican accent
> was over the top, just like the hunch back inn keeper.  I expect to
> see those elements in Scooby Doo, not Harry Potter.

Eustace_Scrubb:
Well, I don't think a Jamaican accent's any less appropriate than
whatever the CG-Dobby's accent was in the CoS movie.  Making Tom the
innkeeper a hunchback _was_ about the most foolish thing in PoA,
though.  I was waiting for him to tell Harry to "walk this way..."
Then we could have had Dan Radcliffe doing "Hang on!  If I could walk
_that_ way..."
(Never mind!)

> This is off the topic, but I wondered what everyone thought of the 
> new Dumbledore?  I just couldn't get into him being Dumbledore, but 
> that may be because Richard Harris was so perfect (especially the  
> voice).  The new one seemed a little to short and heavy.

Eustace_Scrubb again:
I thought Michael Gambon was fine, in so far as he was in the movie at
all.  I especially liked his parts at the beginning and end of the
time turning.  I really wished they'd included the bit with him, Fudge
and Snape in the hospital wing, though.  Richard Harris was OK with
me, too, although in CoS you could tell he wasn't at all well.  

I see that Gambon is on for GoF, at least according to IMDB, and I
trust we see a good deal more of Dumbledore in that--it certainly
seems to me he has some crucial bits, no matter how much they cut.

I can't see either Harris or Gambon as the Dumbledore of the battle in
the Ministry in OoP, though...apparating in and turning the tide for
the Order, then confronting You-Know-Who...perhaps Gambon will grow
into it by the time OoP is filmed.

Cheers,

Eustace_Scrubb