Voldemort vs Dumbledore - the Actors

[Theresa]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Valerie Flowe <valerie.flowe at ...> 
wrote:
>
> > <snip>  Don't you love the Fiennes phrase "distillation of evil"!?!
> WIthout reaching for my GOF book (lazy!), that scene where Fiennes 
> touches Dan's scar wasn't in the book, right? I think that was the 
> director throwing that in. In which case it was so brilliantly 
played. 
> That scene made me squirm more than any! Poor Harry! I wanted to 
reach 
> in there and rescue him!
> The look of absolute delight on Fienne's face as he tortured Harry 
with 
> his mere touch, was diabolical!

Ralph plays evil well. I still shiver when I think of Shindler's List. 
You just want to shoot his character, he is just so evil. So I had 
high hopes for him as Voldemort and he didn't disappoint me at all. He 
was brilliant.

As for the touching of the scar, looked in my book and no he didn't 
touch the scar. It says that one of his fingers was close to Harry's 
cheek and he lectures a bit about Lily's sacrifice and then says he 
can touch Harry now and does. It doesn't say where but I presume 
Harry's cheek as the fingers were next to the cheek. I was disapointed 
that no death eaters were tortured in the film. I thought that showed 
how truly cruel Voldemort is. He even hurts his own followers. 
However, this was one of my favorite scenes in the film because I felt 
it was so well done. After the little girl next to me said to her 
mom "that man is going to give me nightmares momma." I thought how 
right she was and I am 43 thinking he was going to give me nightmares. 
He was perfect. 

Can't wait to see Imelda as Umbridge. She is another brilliant actor. 
If you ever saw Chicken Run you can just imagine her voice all syrupy 
sweet and annoying. Plus I can imagine her dressed up to look like an 
onery women trying to look sweet. Can't wait.

Theresa