Inconsistencies- was Definition of a "good movie" for me

[susanbones2003]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "draco382" <draco382 at y...> wrote:
> snip> I absolutely agree -- as anyone who's seen Dan in David 
Copperfield 
> can attest, the boy CAN cry and cry believably.  On a side note -- 
i 
> had always believed that Harry never really cried in the books 
until 
> book 4 -- but i was wrong, he does cry even in book 1 -- but its 
> written very beautifully and SUBTLEY...shame we weren't given that 
> in the movie...
> 
> draco382 (picturing "Harry Smurf")

The key word is SUBTLE here!! Jo is the heart and soul of discretion 
when writing about something as potentially embarrassing to a male 
child as crying. Remember how embarrassed Harry was to find tears on 
his face after falling prey to the Boggart/dementor? How he bent 
over, pretending to "do up his shoelace" to surrreptitiously wipe 
his face? Now if that had been left in, that would have been a 
killer scene for Dan. I regret the directors have all shied away 
from the emotionally charged things, which makes me puzzle even more 
as to why Alphonso Cuaron "added in" something so contrived. I have 
a bigger question, what did you think worked, if you care to discuss 
that. I want to, need to concentrate on the good about this movie. 
Jennifer