[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Getting it right in the films (Was: Question for parents)

[Valerie Flowe]

> Carol:
> <snip> But why a tongue twitch? Something to do with Slytherin and 
> snakes? We don't
>  even know that Barty Jr. was from Slytherin, and he's not a 
> Parselmouth. It just made him look mad (which he was) and served to
>  identify him, but didn't tie in with anything else in the movie or 
> the book. It was just thrown in out of nowhere like the shrunken heads 
> in PoA.

Valerie:
I think it was merely a cinematic ploy, to let the audience know that 
Crouch Jr. was Fake!Moody, without going into a lot of backstory. 
That's also why they threw him into the first scene. Poorly handled, as 
we've all agreed. More info was needed for that whole plot to make 
sense.

I'm thinking perhaps Harry's forehead clutching just prior to finding 
dead Crouch Sr. is foreshadowing OotP ; how Voldemort is starting to 
subconsciously infiltrate Harry's mind?  (feeling each other's highs 
and lows). Maybe V has just found out that Crouch Sr. is dead and is 
ecstatic? I dunno; maybe I'm reaching here...?

Another cinematic ploy, this time in OotP, that I think actually worked 
well, was when Harry would roll his neck whenever V was infiltrating 
his mind. I thought it was a good way of making that connection without 
a whole lot of explanation. That one scene where V is standing in a 
black suit on the train platform, doing that neck thing, still bugs me 
though. He just looks WEIRD in a suit!!! And when he was in Harry's 
grey warm-up jacket and red shirt in the mirror...ewww! That was 
creepy.

>  Carol:
> And while I'm complaining, I didn't like the casting of Barty Sr. He 
> looked the part, with his weird little Hitler
>  mustache, but his voice and personality were all wrong. IMO only, of 
> course.

Valerie:
Actually I thought he was quite good. I thought his nervous hand 
movements when he was saying "Upon further consideration only those 17 
and over can try out for the Tri-Wizard tournament" was a bit odd. But 
it still fit in with my image of him. One of my fav parts in that movie 
is when the champions are taking their baby dragons out of the bag.  I 
love the way Crouch says "Oooooo" when Krum pulls out his dragon! I 
wonder if they got to keep them?  Those things were cool!