Cuts and Bruises

[susanbones2003]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "geebsy" <geebsy at y...> wrote:
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> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Valerie Flowe 
<valerie.flowe at v...> 
> wrote:
> >
>  I was 
> > wondering today whether Movie Harry is just too darn cute? Book 
Harry 
> > is usually visually portrayed as rather geeky. GOF Harry 
(especially 
> in 
> > those dress robes!) is anything but!!!
> > Valerie
> 
> geebsy replies:
> Do you think Harry is meant to be geeky?  Isn't James portayed as 
a 
> player. The way James went after Lily and how some of the physical 
> discriptions are I thought James was quite good looking.  And of 
course 
> since Harry "Looks just like his dad" I always got the impression 
he 
> was growing into his looks as well.  Movie Dad comes across as 
more 
> geeky than he should be.  It is Hermoine who is much too good 
looking 
> for the movie.  Emma should have had false teeth and a frizzy wig 
so 
> that her transformation at the ball was that much more spectacular.
> 
> Roxane
> > 
>Hi there Roxane,
I think Movie Harry is quite nice looking and definitely an action 
hero where as, Book Harry is a little less put-together. In GOF, 
he's referred to by Fluer as "zis leetle boy." His hair is often 
said to be a mess and whilst he has his mother's eyes, he doesn't 
appear to have the aplomb and confidence of his dad. That may be 
because we first meet his dad as a 15 year old, a member of the 
wizarding world, in the know and sure of himself. Harry's not that. 
I surely hope we see enough of Sirius before his demise to establish 
that Harry and his dad are different. Just listening to OOTP, you 
can hear the disappointment in an almost delusional Sirius that 
Harry's not the crazy risk-taker his dad was. And then you think, 
his dad didn't have the worst dark wizard ever after him since 
birth. No, that only came about later. So James can afford to be 
carefree, happy-go-lucky, arrogant and self-centered as he was at 
15. I surely hope we get to see that contrast. 

And about looks, Dan and Harry are two different people. It comes 
out so clearly when you see dapper little Dan at the premiers in his 
shiny suits and his very swishy appearance. Harry is rougher around 
the edges, carries himself differently, almost, well almost burly. 
He's got more muscles than Dan (do not know how that works, but he 
does seem bulkier...). It's a great thing to say that Dan can and 
does go into character and the two are very well-defined. I love 
seeing Dan in interviews. He talks a mile a minute and he's so glib! 
And then you realize how easy he makes it look, to become Harry, a 
man of much fewer words. We in America are very accustomed to 
getting our characters and the "stars" who play them mixed up. It's 
a marketing strategy. I am always very relieved to see Dan has his 
own person and that it's very different from Harry.
Jen D. > 
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