[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Flitwick - Hitler?

[Karen]

On Friday, March 17, 2006, at 10:22 PM, Valerie Flowe wrote:

>>  Hi Karen,
>>  I can't speak for Lizzie but alot of people really find his "Hitler"
>>  look quite repulsive. Cuaron intoduced the new Flitwick look and
>>  therefore has "alot to answer for."
>
> I personally thought Barty Crouch looked rather Hilter-like!
> Loved his bizarre hand mannerisms though. Interesting. I don't recall
> that being a trait in the books. Also, I do not believe that Crouch Jr.
> had that snake tongue habit in the books, did he? Perhaps that was the
> director's way of subtly divulging to the audience that Moody was Jr?
> 'Course this works much better on film than in print.
> Valerie

kchuplis:
Barty Crouch looked more like the old British politicians to me. And 
Flitwick looks more like a mad composer than Hitler in my eyes. Crouch 
Jr.'s tongue thing was just a visual device that was planted as a clue 
and of course, to tip Barty Sr. off that sonny was loose (although that 
whole thing was not explored in the movie). I imagine some people might 
have picked up the tongue thing in the pensieve scene and then gotten 
it when they saw Moody. In the book we had the "map" clue of Harry 
seeing Barty Jr in Snape's stores and the possibility of connecting 
that with Moody when he showed up so quickly, but they dropped that bit 
(which Jo put in to get rid of the map for the rest of the story 
basically) so they had to put in something similar.