3rd time's a charm- I've finally got some questions

[susanbones2003]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, nicholas dean <nicholas at a...> 
wrote:
>
> >Lauren said:-
> >
> >And to make a comment- I loved the second task, my only quibble 
with
> >it is the "precious things" to be saved.  They looked a little 
scary,
> >like they were dead or something.  I didn't even recognize 
Hermione,
> >or Cho.  When I read the book, I imagined them to be sweetly 
sleeping-
> >like, heads lolled to the side, gently bobbing in the currents,
> >dribbles of bubbles escaping their mouths like itty snores.  (I 
think
> >it was described pretty closely to that!) This scene gave me a 
bit of
> >a jolt.
> 
> The recent 'Making of...' programme on British TV (one whole hour, 
> amazingly!) dwelt at length upon the filming of this sequence. Dan 
> Radcliffe actually  did all of the swimming that you saw Harry 
doing 
> in the movie in short 15- to 20-second bursts, with scuba divers 
> standing by to shove a regulator (breathing apparatus) into his 
mouth 
> when needed. When it came to tying up the four hostages 
underwater, 
> however, it was felt that it would be too dangerous; so they used 
> dummies. Any diver will tell you, however, that shapes are 
distorted 
> and colours are  bleached under water, and Caucasian skin looks 
> lifeless. The 'hostages' did look odd, but not necessarily 
> unrealistic.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nicholas

First time through, I too, thought the hostages looked like bad wax 
musuem manaquins, but the next time, I looked at them more as "in 
suspended animation" which they'd have had to be, to last 
underwater. It didn't seem so jarring. I was thoroughly impressed 
with the sequence and relieved that it didn't last as long as it did 
in the book. The shark was very realistic by the way. Made me jump.
JenD
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