IMAX and the Return

phoenix_kevin phoenix_kevin at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 19 05:22:54 UTC 2006


It was an amazing scene. So well played by the actors involved that 
you can feel the shock and grief with a marvelous intensity.


--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "khajermei" <khajermei at y...> 
wrote:
>
> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Maria Holub <sopraniste at y...> 
> 
> SNIPPED:
> > This has probably been gone over again and again, but
> > I just want to say: that scene just KILLED me! I was
> > SOBBING! I think it's the harsh juxtaposition of the
> > cheering and the music, and the sick knowledge that
> > something's TERRIBLY _WRONG_!!!
> > 
> > I appologise for all of the exclamation points. I get
> > excited.
> > 
> > Flop
> 
> Hi Flop!
> Glad you were able to enjoy Harry at point blank range! I totally 
> agree with you about the return scene. I remember the first time I 
> saw it, before I realized it, tears were streaming down my face! I 
> was very taken by the way in which Mike Newell allowed the scene 
to 
> play out. You and I know that this terrible thing has happened but 
> the cheering raucous crowd is still in high spirits with the band 
> playing to cover up Harry's sobs. Fleur (a highly underrated part 
of 
> this film) is the first to realize what has happened. Then the 
slow 
> dawning on everyone's faces, the camera panning from face to 
> confused and then horrified face and all along Harry's sobs 
> penetrating the noise. We went on about Dan's "crying scene" in 
POA 
> (as to whether you found it beleivable or not) and then someone 
very 
> intelligently pointed out that there were no tears at this point 
in 
> the "Goblet" book. Still, this scene rings true. I think it's a 
good 
> show for Dan that his Harry's reaction to all he'd seen, all that 
> had happened, all that he'd gone through came off as so real, so 
> natural and believable that many of us forgot that there had been 
no 
> tears on the return. There weren't any tears at all, in fact. 
> Hermione's capture of Rita (bug) Skeeter took Harry's thoughts 
away 
> from the misery that had threatened to overwhelm him in the book, 
> during Molly's most famous hug. But Dan brought something to Harry 
> that was totally in character. Glad to hear you loved it. You 
> weren't alone!
> Jen D.
> > 
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