Voldemort

[Richard]

At 16:31 25/11/2005 , Valerie Flowe wrote:

> > PS. What did Nagini say to Voldemort in the first scene? Was she speaking
> > parseltongue or English? I couldn't catch it both times I saw it.

It was Parseltongue (hence the need for Voldy to translate...). Do you need 
a transcript of what he said, as well? :-)

Besides, the end credits (which have been the topic of a separate thread) 
include a credit for "Parseltongue by Dr. Francis Nolan", and it doesn't 
appear at any other point in the film. (Although, considering Harry 
understands Parseltongue and we see the scenes from his dream persepective, 
it *should* have been comprehensible, but then CoS had the same dilemma 
when Riddle spoke to the Basilisk). :-)

Incidentally, to those who said in that other thread "if you want to know 
who did XYZ on the movie, look it up on IMDB", Dr. Nolan isn't listed, so 
the credits do have a valid function.

And on the subject of credits, a short anecdote: while 1977 was the the 
first year I can recall that Hollywood movies eschewed opening credits, 
Star Wars was far from the first modern commercial film not to have any 
(Apocalypse now, two years later, had no writing at all, not even the title).

A famous incident was one of Jean-Luc Godard's big films (I *think* it was 
Weekend, 1967) and the actors got into a major argument about who would get 
top billing, so instead of a credit sequence, Godard left the 
classification certificate (the "Visa de controle" number, equivalent to 
the the BBFC or MPAA rating, although it has different connotations I won't 
go into) up on screen for 2 minutes at the beginning of the film instead 
(normally, it appears in tiny, tiny print underneath the film's title or 
under the producer/director credit). At the end of the film, there is a 
single shot of all the names and jobs they did in tiny little print, just 
flashed up on the screen for a moment - apparently that was enough to 
satisfy the requirements of the various guilds at the time. When the movie 
was released internationally, Godard stipulated that the credit sequence 
should stay the same (with each country replacing the visa de controle with 
its own equivalent for the specified time).

Regrettably, nowadays the guilds wouldn't let a director get away with 
something like that, and certainly Hollywood studios wouldn't allow it either.

--
Richard, previously AKA GulPlum, credit nerd and proud of it, who only got 
around to making a note of Dr. Nolan's surname upon his fifth viewing of 
the end credits