Daytime viewing

Tue Jun 15 08:22:40 UTC 2004

Hungary (I'm a half-Brit, half-Hungarian cultural nightmare).
I watched the English version of POA yesterday, and loved it even 
more. The audience, this time, was full of snotty little Brit kids 
with their babysitters (children of diplomats, mostly), one of them 
apparently called Alice, just like me. It was strange being told off 
by "my" babysitter throughout the show.
The "where's Hedwig"-ing happened this time too... so maybe Harry 
really should have just lugged the cage too, full stop.
I now plan to go at 10 or 11 in the evening. I'm growing tired of the 
kids, and ever more fond of the film.

The time-symbolism gets me so much. I find myself in love with 
Alfonso Cuaron, genius if you ask me (not that anyone has). :)
Love, Alice

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Valerie Flowe 
<valerie.flowe at v...> wrote:
> Enjoyed your witty audience-prespective review...where are you from?
> [bewitchedbyHP]
> 
> From: "alice_loves_cats" <hypercolor99 at h...>
> Reply-To: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 11:34:37 -0000
> To: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [HPFGU-Movie] Daytime viewing
> 
> 
> Just thought I'd share some of the moments from my first, and so far
> only, viewing of POA. I went with my best friends who'd just had an
> exam, and I was also at the university trying to get some of my 
marks
> signed. So we decided that after we were done with the
> administration, we'd go straight to the cinema. And so it happened
> that on a Friday morning, we sat down with about 101 kids and a
> couple of teenagers to watch the show. The funny thing about going 
to
> the cinema with kids is that they COMMENT. Man has not yet invented 
a
> way of stopping them doing that. I became reconciled with the
> situation and decided to enjoy their remarks. And lo.
> 
> The first surprise was when Harry set off from Privet Drive not only
> without Hedwig, but without even Hedwig's cage. The audience 
erupted.
> WHERE'S HEDWIG?, came the indignant cries from all over. Whispered
> answers of "must be off hunting" would not do: WHERE'S THE CAGE?
> demanded the kids. They soon got over the shock, however.
> 
> The biggest fun came when Hagrid said that Buckbeak was going to be
> killed. His hair changed colour the moment he said it, from black to
> brown, due to the ratty copy of the film that the cinema was using.
> This only added to the pandemonium that followed. Some people 
thought
> a crying Hagrid was impossibly funny. They started giggling. Then
> came prompt hisses from the others: "This is not funny!". More
> giggling. By that time, it was, irrevocably, extremely funny. It was
> like a house party, with everyone munching crisps in front of the
> television. We were all friends. The more people said it was not
> funny, the funnier it got. I was ashamed of myself for laughing, but
> I couldn't stop. 
> 
> We all stayed to watch the credits, and lots of people noticed the
> (supposedly) snogging couple on the map. Ooooooooh, they cried,
> oooooh, look at them! You would have thought they were showing
> explicit sex-material, instead of a pair of footprints shuffling in
> front of each other.
> 
> It was a riot. :) But I think my next viewing will be in the 
evening.
> Also I plan to watch the original, English version. It's just that I
> love Hermione's dubbing voice so much. She's a girl called Luca
> Szabó, and she's a totally brilliant actress. Harry's voice is also
> one of my favourites. His voice deepened for this film, while Daniel
> Radcliffe's was already deep for Chamber of Secrets - so back then 
it
> was funny, cause in one language it was a little squeaky boy's voice
> that he had, and in the other, a deep voice. :)
> 
> Love, Alice
> 
> 
> 
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