[HPFGU-Movie] who's that boy

[Sherry Garfio]

--- artsylynda at aol.com wrote:

>  
>  
> In a message dated 7/11/2005 2:12:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com writes:
> 
> 
> The  Gryffindor boy is probably Dean Thomas!  I was reading on JKR's  
> website that Dean is black.  Do you remember a skinny black boy in  the 
> first two movies that doesn't say much?  He even sits with Seamus  in 
> McGonagall's class.  I think they just replaced the actor with  this 
> heavy-set boy for some reason.  I could be wrong, but it makes  the 
> most sense to me.  Why you never see him in Harry's Dorm room is  
> beyond me.
> 
> I can't wait until midnight  Friday!!!!!
> 
> Jen
> 
> 
> 
> No, he's not Dean!!  Dean has been in all three films so  far and is a 
> "light" colored black boy who's quite handsome.  He's behind  Harry and
> Seamus when they walk into the Common Room the first time in PoA and  Dean 
> winds up having a ghost walk through him and goes "UGH!"

Adding my voice to GulPlum's advocacy of widescreen DVDs, I would like to point
out that the fullscreen edition consistently cuts Dean out of the picture! 
This may have led Jen to the incorrect conclusion that the actor who plays Dean
had been replaced with the mystery boy - if you're watching the fullscreen DVD,
you never see Dean except when he walks through the ghost, at which point his
face is hard to see.  GulPlum's wonderful wide/full screen comparison web pages
illustrate this nicely - for those who haven't taken the time to check it out,
it's at http://plum.cream.org/HP/poa.htm - very worthwhile.  You can browse to
the previous movies from the bottom of that page, and it's striking how much
more significant the differences are in Cuaron's production than in the first
two.  (Notice how I slipped in an implied plug for Cuaron's direction there as
well?)

Sherry Garfio, who really REALLY wants a widescreen TV for Christmas...


"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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