Bellatrix

[abraxan]

Helena Bonham Carter does "crazy" women really well!  I can't 
remember what film I saw on TV not long ago where she played a crazy-
type woman, but she was just brilliant in the part, and made herself 
look truly horrible, which is what they've done with Bellatrix.  
Making a beautiful woman look that bad is quite a trick!

I don't know if they're going to play up the drunken Sirius or not, 
but they are including the "Snape's Pensieve" scenes - they cast 
young actors to play James, Sirius, Remus and Snape, IIRC - James and 
Snape at the very least, but I'm pretty sure there's at least a young 
Remus, too.  Poor Harry - I can just see the look of horror on his 
face after the shock of seeing what a prat his father was, and then 
getting CAUGHT by the adult Snape!!  Yikes!  That Pensieve scene is 
one of my favorite things in the book.  I can just see Harry rushing 
up to look his 15-year-old father in the face and the joy on his face 
at seeing him, Sirius and Remus there.  I've always thought it odd 
that Harry didn't recognize "Evans" as his mother, Lily Evans.  
Surely he heard his Aunt Petunia's maiden name at some point?  I 
think that's one of the places JKR slipped a bit.  Still, it should 
be a marvelous scene!

Can't wait for July 13!!

Lynda

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Valerie Flowe <valerie.flowe at ...> 
wrote:
>
> I just finished watching "Conversations with other women" with 
Helena 
> Bonham Carter. She's such a striking looking woman. I can't wait to 
see 
> what she does with the character of Bellatrix! She looks really 
scary 
> in the clips I've seen thus far...watch out Sirius/Gary Oldman!
> Speaking of which, does anyone else think that the OotP 
writer/director 
> will drop the storyline of Sirius-the-drunk-and-obnoxious? He is 
such a 
> complex twisted character (that's why he's one of my favs!) that I 
> think this would be quite hard to portray in just 2.5 hours on-
screen. 
> Though OotP is very much a psychological ride for Harry. He loves 
> Sirius because it's the closest he can get to his parents. Then 
Sirius, 
> drunk and insensitive, scoffs and tells him he's nothing like 
James. 
> And Harry finds out that Sirius almost had Snape killed by 
> Remus-the-werewolf. And James publicly ridicules Snape by parading 
him 
> upside down. Then Sirius gets 'allegedly' accosted by Voldemort in 
the 
> MoM, so Harry races to his rescue. Sirius meets his (final??) 
demise, 
> and Harry is plunged in despair, having lost yet another grown-up 
he 
> became close to. That's quite a lot to show in 2.5 hours dontcha 
> think??
> Valerie
>