[HPFGU-Movie] bring me the head

[artsylynda at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/12/2005 8:33:49 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com writes:


>>Jason in Alaska said:

- Makeup, for what they did to  Flitwick...for two movies he is balding, 
bearded and has white hair; then  magically his aging is reversed, his 
hair turns black and he wears a  groomed mustache.

Carla: I COULDN'T agree more. I can not BEAR to look  at mini-Hitler! It is so
distracting. I miss original recipe  Flitwick!<<
Now me:  I just saw GoF for the third time yesterday (in IMAX,  YAY!) and 
noticed Flitwick's "Hitler-type" moustache has been replaced with a  larger, 
bushier one.  That's an improvement, but that bowl haircut???  (Shaved on the 
bottom in back).  What IDIOT came up with that look for  him?  The moustache is an 
improvement over the Hitler look.  I suspect  they got a lot of complaints 
about that and decided to change him "a little" as  a result.  But I guess they 
thought they couldn't go back to the first  Flitwick, who was exactly as I'd 
pictured him when reading the books.  But  JKR said in an interview she thought 
of him as just a "tiny little man" so I  suppose the new look is to make him 
look more THAT way rather than as a  potential elf or gnome or something.  JMO.
 



>>    * Snape - I think he was perfectly cast,  but he is too cold and 
calculating ... there isn't enough venom. Let's  face it, in several 
books Snape almost busts blood vessels over things not  working out the 
way he planned. It's like Gambon is playing Snape and  Rickman is 
playing DD.

ME: You took the words right out of my  mouth!
I anticipate every scene w/ Alan Rickman, and DO appreciate his  skill w/
Snape. But I agree that we were cheated out of seeing him flip his  wig, as
it were, at the end of PoA.
As for Dumbledore, it takes power  away from his character to have him react
so loudly and aggressively,  especially w/ the selection of Harry as a
Champion. It was not yet revealed  how or why he was selected, so the scene
actually called for grave concern,  as depicted in the book.  Dumbledore's
composure is such a barometer  of a situation, that when he has cause to
"freak", then the viewer will  know that that dung has indeed hit the  fan.

~Carla<<
I've read several articles now (sorry, don't know which links lead  to the 
right ones) that say they were portraying a Dumbledore who is  "weakening," 
something that isn't this apparent in canon until book 6,  IMO.  One of the "bad" 
cuts in this film was in the Pensieve scene where  they removed the part where 
DD told Harry he could no longer protect him, and  Harry said, "If not you, 
then who?" (it was in trailers, I think, or behind the  scenes shows -- I've 
seen it several times, but it isn't in the films).   THEN DD does the part where 
he sits tiredly on the steps and Harry asks what  happened to Barty Jr. after 
the trial.  (At least, this is how I think the  scenes fit together.)
 
I have a question after seeing the film again.  After the Yule  Ball, when 
Ron and Hermione are arguing, Harry comes with his full dress robes  on from 
some other hallway, looking distracted/distressed.  Then Hermione  tells both of 
the boys to go to bed (which I think was very funny and one of  Emma's better 
scenes -- she's way too over the top most of the time in this  film, I think). 
 My question:  WHERE was Harry coming from, and what  did he overhear that 
upset him?  Something's missing.  He wouldn't  know it was a problem for Hagrid 
to be a half-giant, so if he overheard that  conversation, he wouldn't be 
upset.  He saw Karkaroff and Snape's  discussion at a different point in the film, 
so that couldn't be it.  So  why did he look upset?
 
I thought it was funny that they had Madam Maxime coming on to  Hagrid so 
much (the thing she took out of his beard and put in her mouth?   What was THAT?? 
 And then she leaned in for a kiss and he missed his  chance!  LOL!) and 
didn't have them fighting.  They didn't lose  anything by dropping that storyline, 
IMO.  And Hagrid was precious in his  infatuation with her.  But I missed 
seeing her "magnificent opals" -- I  wanted to SEE opals that would look suitable 
on a half-giantess!!  Oh well.   

Lynda AKA "Abraxan"

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