[HPFGU-Movie] Titanic Reference

[GulPlum]

Only time for one short post tonight. I've been trying to catch up with 
what's been going on over the last few days and hope to make some 
substantive posts over the weekend.

At 22:58 11/06/04 , dsdavisarch wrote:
>I'm new to the movie list and am not too skillful with the
>searching, but have you all aready had a discussion about the
>Titanic reference when Harry was riding Buckbeak over the lake.  I'm
>sure you have because it was rather obvious.  Could someone point me
>to it?

There's been no discussion, per se - just what is there to "discuss"? It's 
been noted several times, of course, and off the top of my head it seems as 
if most people find it a bit too cheesy. On the other hand, I thought that 
the claw-in-the-water shot was a bit OTT, but again there are those (the 
majority?) who disagree with me.

Personally, I loved it. I thought it was absolutely the right reaction 
Harry should have, to indicate among various things his ease astride 
Buckbeak and his trust in his steed. It made me think back to when I first 
learned how to ride a bicycle (which I remember very well, despite it 
having taken place 35 years and two days ago - ten points to the House of 
whoever guesses how come I'm able to be so precise :-)) - one of the first 
things I did as soon as I felt comfortable was to spread my arms wide and 
speed down the street (which was on a slight incline). Until I crashed into 
a tree, that is... :-)

I do appreciate that the whole Buckbeak sequence is slightly different to 
the book, in that Book!Harry specifically doesn't enjoy the experience, 
whilst Movie! Harry seems to take great pleasure in it. Nevertheless, it's 
a creative decision I don't consider to be of particularly great 
importance, and it's one of the few scenes in the movie when Harry appears 
to be genuinely happy (more on this in another, VERY long post I'm working 
on, provisionally entitled "Niggles, Nuggets and Other Observations").

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GulPlum AKA Richard, off to bed