[HPFGU-Movie] the Dementor attack

[artsylynda at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/16/2004 1:28:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com writes:
I was again shocked by how 
horrible the dementor attack on Sirius and Harry was.  It struck me 
how much it made me feel slightly uncomfortable - like I was 
witnessing a rape scene in a movie.  I know that is a strong 
description, but that's how it made me feel.  I don't think I was 
alone in that feeling as, oddly enough, the audience was completely 
silent during the entire event - no one made a single noise.

The addition of the dementors pulling at the faces of their victims 
just made the attack seem so much more violating than in the book.  
I'll probably always get the shivers during this scene no matter how 
many times I watch it. 

Did this scene strike anyone else that way?  

Diana L.

Yes, it's a powerful scene, even more so when Harry and Hermione are watching 
it -- and then she says "You're dying."  Oooo, gives me shivers just 
remembering it.  I read or heard Dan say in an interview that that was one of the 
scenes where he got so into it he hyperventilated and fainted.  (In another 
interview, he said he was on a table when he hyperventilated while being too "into" 
a scene, and fell off, but somebody caught him).  Him seeing himself through 
the stag was chilling too -- so tantilizing, he could NEARLY see who was there, 
but not really.  And I couldn't see enough through the stag to say whoever 
was there looked like Harry OR James -- I guess he had a better vantage point 
than I did.  ;->  Amazing scene, really.

Lynda Sappington
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