Likability of CAPSLOCK! Harry

[susanbones2003]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "susanbones2003" <rkdas at ...> 
wrote:
>
> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107@> 
> wrote:
> >
> >  Karen <kchuplis@> wrote:
> > 
> > > James doesn't look exactly like Harry. 
> > 
> > Maybe James doesn't look EXACTLY like Harry but it's pretty darn
> > close. Give Dan some contacts to change his eye color, get rid 
of 
> the
> > glasses and the scar and you've got James. I'm still not certain 
> this
> > won't happen, the IMDB still doesn't list an actor for a young 
> James
> > and that's a good sign.
> >  
> > > It would be a mistake IMO to have Dan do it.
> > 
> > I don't see why, unless Dan just wasn't up for it. Perhaps he's 
> been
> > playing Harry for so long he just couldn't handle a character 
with 
> a
> > very different personality.
> 
> 
> Hi, Jen D. here,
> I don't think the movie people would consider casting Dan to play 
> duel roles. That has something of the "side-show" about it, like 
> Elizabeth Montgomery playing Samantha and Sarina. It would take 
away 
> the focus on the story and that wouldn't be good. If these movies 
> weren't hits, you'd expect them to pull out a gimmick like that, 
> just to get people in the seats. Or a little brother for Harry, 
you 
> know the sctick. And Dan has his whole life ahead of him to prove 
> he's a fine actor. He doesn't need duel roles just yet. I am not 
> saying he couldn't do it, that he wouldn't be marvelous. Just that 
> it doesn't serve any purpose just now.
> 
> > 
> > > I was just rewatching the beginning of PoA 
> > > and I really don't know what people are
> > > worried about with Dan's acting in capslock
> > > mode. If you ask me, there is the precursor
> > > of CAPSLOCK!Harry right there and
> > he's fine.
> > 
> 
> > Yes I agree and that is encouraging, but in the confrontation 
> scene in
> > Dumbledore's office Dan's got to go much further and pull out 
all 
> the
> > stops; Dan's got to make Harry become downright scary! I want 
> people
> > who haven't read the book to think, at least for an instant, that
> > Harry is about to knock Dumbledore's block off and embrace the 
dark
> > side. I believe that scene is the single most important one in 
the
> > entire book and I hope the movie people treat it with respect.
> > 
> > Eggplant
> 
> Jen again,
> As much as I am with you on the debriefing scene, how it should be 
> played, I don't have a lot of faith that the screenwriters will 
see 
> everything our way. There are plenty of examples of things I just 
> couldn't believe didn't make it into the films. I will say that I 
> don't believe any scene (except Shreiking Shack perhaps...) as 
> important as the debriefing has been left out (or so badly 
> truncated). So my fingers are crossed but I have learned to say 
over 
> and over "It doesn't matter, it's still a good film." Let's hope 
> that the over-the-top reaction by CAPSLOCK Harry is a priority to 
> the movie guys...
> Jen D.
> >
>