[HPFGU-Movie] Short(ish) comments on variety of posts

[Valerie Flowe]

On 12/18/05 12:28 PM, "Richard" <hp at plum.cream.org> wrote:
> 
> My own assumption is that in GoF, Mrs Norris wasn't an actual live cat, in
> which case she could have had whatever eyes they wanted. (I don't recall
> seeing her walk; whenever we saw her, she was in Fitch's arms; if we ever
> did see her walking it would have been a long or back shot, in which case
> her eye colour would have been irrelevant).
> 
>> >I don't know why they would color her eyes unless they're trying to  tell us
>> >she isn't "just" a cat.  Were her eyes that color in the other  films?  I
>> >can't remember.
> 
> Well, sort of. In shots in which she is clearly a live cat her eyes aren't
> *quite* as red as those in which she could just be a puppet, and in most
> cases the redness can be enhanced with the right lighting (eye colour, both
> human and otherwise, differs considerably depending on light conditions).
> 
> I think she is a live cat, except for when she¹s petrified, of course. The
> eyes do look somewhat fakey though, so I think they are colorized. So maybe if
> Voldy¹s eyes would¹ve looked fake like that it¹s good they didn¹t try. Wonder
> if they made that conscious decision or just didn¹t read the books closely
> enough?? Shame they didn¹t keep them snakelike though. That was creeeepy!
> I remember the great POA effects when Lupin starts to turn into a werewolf and
> they do a close-up of his eyes changing. Well done, imo.
> Valerie
> 
> Steve wrote:
> Sorry, what makes you (and others) so certain that there is something
> important about Harry's eyes being *green*? My reading of canon and the
> comment JKR once made that gets everyone on their soap-boxes about this is
> that it's important for Harry to have *distinctive* eyes, and for them to
> be the same colour as his mother's. The fact that Dan's eyes are so
> magnificently blue, as are Geraldine Sommerville's, indicates to me that
> there is no need for any trickery or otherwise noting that they may be
> green. Besides which, wouldn't it be, well, stupid, for the last movie to
> make a HUGE deal about an intrinsic attribute of Harry's appearance that's
> suddenly changed?
> 
> JKR just made it a point to say that Harry had intense green eyes, which are
> in themselves a bit more unusual than blue eyes. Dan has such great eyes
> though, that this discrepancy doesn¹t bother me.
> Valerie
> 
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