[HPFGU-Movie] Re: The last part of the last movie

[AnitaKH]

                                  --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...> 
 wondered:
 >
 > In the last part of the last movie somebody will need to play the part
 > of a 37 year old Harry Potter; Dan will be about 20 at the time, can
 > he convincingly do it or will they need to hire another older actor? [snipped the part where Eggplant suggests Dan is up to the challenge, and I agree!]
 
LizzyMae then replied:

These days amazing things can be done with makeup, including paunches, 
 jowls, and wrinkles if needed.  There have been actors who have 
 portrayed a wide age range in a movie, unfortunately at this point I 
 can't think of one! 


akh comes out of her fog and remembers:

Javier Bardem, in The Sea Inside, plays a quadriplegic in his 50s as well as the sailor he was in his 20s when he suffered the accident.  Bardem was 24-25 at the time, yet he very convincingly plays the older man, with many closeups.  That's a tribute to the makeup artist and Bardem.

I believe the seventh movie will reach a milestone in film, having the same actors play their roles from movie 1 to 7, even if they replace them with older actors for the epilogue.  We've seen it on television, but I think it's unprecedented in movie sequels.  At any rate, Chris Columbus believed so when he was interviewed for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone DVD.



akh, who as usual apologizes for wacky formatting







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