[HPFGU-Movie] Tattoos and other things

[patientx3 at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/19/2004 2:12:39 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
karen-gary at worldnet.att.net writes:

>>I just had the question about why Gary Oldman has tattoos?  Are they
Cuaraon's idea or does he have them in real life.<<

They were Cuaron's idea.

>>  I must say overall I thought he did a good job (even though I had major 
misgivings about his being cast in the part) but why did they have to make him 
so dirty
and scummy looking?<<  

Perhaps because he's dirty and scummy looking in the books? (check out my 
post 8651 for a list of Sirius descriptions from the books). He's been living in 
the forbidden forest as a dog for nine months, of course he looks a little 
off.

>>Now I know some will say that is part of prison life, people get tatooed as 
something to pass the time but I don't see Azkaban as a place for that, in 
fact there wouldn't be much interacting between prisoners at all.<<  

I'm thinking that maybe it was done to him when he went into prison, like 
some sort of branding. Its hard to tell in the context of the movie but if you 
compare the tattoos to his 'prison number' they appear to match (at least 
partially).


-Rebecca


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