[HPFGU-Movie] GoF: Another little tidbit

[Richard]

At 00:08 04/12/2005 , Valerie Flowe wrote:

(Incidentally, Valerie, can you please check the setting on whatever 
program you're using to post messages: lots of strange characters are 
showing up, but more annoyingly than that, all of your contributions appear 
as "quoted text", so it's not immediately apparent which contributions are 
yours and which are the "actual" previous post you're quoting)

> > OK, Richard, I¹m going to my 3rd viewing in half and hour, so I¹ll keep my
> > eyes open. Also, I heard on Pottercast that there is something funny 
> (?!?!?)
> > in the graveyard scene. When V forces Harry to bow, there is a Death-Eater
> > clapping in glee in the background. :-)

Indeed, I hadn't noticed that before I'd heard the Leaky Pottercast. I did, 
however, catch Voldemort's "crucioff" (!?!?), "switching off" the curse the 
very first time I saw it, and burst out laughing, much to my consternation, 
and that of the rest of the audience.

> > I¹m taking my 8 year old, a bit reluctantly. She really wants to see it. I
> > spoke to 2 other 8 year old (boys) today and they said they didn¹t think it
> > was that scary. Guess it depends on the fear tolerance. I may end up
> > regretting it and having my girl sleep with me at night for the next 3 
> months!
> > :-)

Well, part of the rationale behind the PG13 rating on your side of the 
Atlantic (or the equivalent 12A over here) is that parents should know the 
tolerance levels of the children in their charge and be able to judge 
whether or not they can manage whatever is on the screen. Different 
children have different triggers and different tolerance levels: for 
instance, I'll never forget going to see CoS with my two nephews (the first 
time they'd seen it, the fourth time for me), and I thought the younger one 
(4 at the time) would have a bad reaction to Riddle or the Basilisk (he's 
very protective and I thought he'd have a problem with a monster going 
after his hero). He didn't have the slightest problem with those.

But whenever Lucius Malfoy turned up (before saying or doing anything), he 
immediately started shaking (for the  first appearance, I had to take him 
outside, he took it so badly)! He's got over it since then, though (and 
although he's looking forward to seeing HP4, he much prefers Spider-Man 
nowadays).

BTW his favourite sequence from the three HP movies they've seen (they're 
going to see GoF tomorrow) is Hagrid's "sorry about that" when he knocks 
down the shack door at the beginning of PS/SS - whenever they visit me and 
I put it on for them, they have to re-watch his entrance at least 4-5 times 
(rather handily, it's a chapter point on the DVD). :-)

> > Valerie, who still wants to catch GOF on Imax but thought that would
> > DEFINITELY be too scary for the little one!

I caught PoA on IMAX (with a bunch of HPFGUers) and was staggeringly 
under-impressed. Maybe the VERY high technical specs at my local cinema 
have spoiled me, but I couldn't really tell that much difference, so I 
doubt I'll be making the effort for GoF

--
Richard, who really should be doing other things right now!