[HPFGU-Movie] Re: American Actors in HP - Ethnicities in HP

[Sherry Garfio]

Theresa <anmsmom333 at cox.net> wrote:
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  In many cases, we Americans don't know the actors as they are from the theatre or British television. I 
had never heard of the gentleman that played Barty Crouch Jr but boy did I love him. He was so creepy in the trial scene and again when DD and company cornered him - I was thinking "throw him to the dementors". 
   
  I actually see this as an advantage for American viewers.  We don't know these actors, so we have no preconceptions of them from different characters we've seen them play!  I doubt you could have been rooting for the dementors to take Jr away if he had played your favorite character in a TV show you've watched religiously for several years.  I find it very distracting to see an actor I'm very familiar with, playing a role unlike his previous roles.
   
  Meanwhile, for Lauren's brother-in-law, HP is not anti-American; it's just that America is beside the point in Harry's world.  We Yanks don't like to think of ourselves as being on the sidelines.  But in most of the world, we are.  I think it is childish and arrogant to expect that America is the center of the universe and therefore anything that doesn't represent us as such must be "anti-American".
   
  The Other Sherry
   


"Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open."
    -- Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire



		
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