[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Your favorite actor/actress in HP movies

[Nightbreed]

I think Fiennes as too serious for Lupin. Even back in "Shindler's List" he
has those deep, piercing eyes. 

 

I hadn't really considered whether "Lupin" looked right in the film because
I thought the actor captured the essence of him and was physically striking
enough. Also, when you consider that Hermione never had big teeth or that
Harry's hair has been short for three films and doesn't look messy at all,
think Lupin's facial features aren't such a big deal. After all, they aren't
drawing the character, they have to cast a person who looks reasonably like
him and more importantly can play the part convincingly.

 

I think the "Slughorn" casting is the worse. He's supposed to be enormously
fat and bald and have a pronounced mustache, the actors is barely portly,
has big, curly hair and I don't even recall seeing the mustache, I'm sure
he's got one, but it's not even so striking that I remember seeing it. The
make-up people really didn't do him up at all.

 

md

 

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Ironically enough when I picture Remus Lupin I actually picture Ralph
Fiennes aka He who must not be named.

There was a bunch of us that wanted Ralph as Remus Lupin (Though I like
David) It will always be Ralph in my mind. Just like I always picture Kate
Winslet as Tonks. 

Love,
Red

--- On Tue, 8/26/08, Carol <justcarol67 at yahoo.com
<mailto:justcarol67%40yahoo.com> > wrote:
From: Carol <justcarol67 at yahoo.com <mailto:justcarol67%40yahoo.com> >
Subject: [HPFGU-Movie] Re: Your favorite actor/actress in HP movies
To: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com <mailto:HPFGU-Movie%40yahoogroups.com> 
Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 4:30 AM

Carol earlier:
> 
> > but he never looked like Lupin to me. 
> 
zanooda responded:
> 
> Not thin enough :-)? 

Carol again:

Not really. I think it was more the stupid mustache and the Muggle
clothes. I hated the electric train, too. Or maybe it's a magical
train that looks like a 1940s electric train (after all, the WW does
have the Hogwarts Express), but it just doesn't suit the character.
Give the guy Grindylows in a tank, please! Anyway, I pictured him as
pleasant-looking but not handsome, with greying brown hair and a face
that was somehow simultaneously young-looking and prematurely lined.
None of that came through for me with David Thewlis.

zanooda:
I have a whole personal problem with movie!Lupin. I saw this actor for
the first time in a movie called "Dragonheart" (or similar, I'm
not
sure :-)), and he played a really disgusting character there! 
> 
> Now every time I see the actor (Thewliss - sp?), I associate him
with this character (which is really strange, actually), and I have
nothing but very bad feelings towards him. He even seems very 
unpleasant-looking to me, although all my family assures me that I'm
just crazy and he looks fine. <snip>

Carol again:
I'm sure he looks fine to anyone who's never read the books and formed
a different mental picture of him. But regarding the mental picture of
him in "Dragonheart," try watching him in "Black Beauty,"
admittedly a
kids' film, but who are we to talk about that? <grin> He plays a very
gentle man who's good with horses, in contrast to some of the brutal
owners of Black Beauty and the mare whose name I forget. If you're
disturbed by cruelty to animals, you might not like the film, but it's
quite watchable otherwise, and it's fun to see the humans from a
horse's point ov view.

Carol, who likes David Thewlis better because of that film but still
doesn't think he looks like Lupin

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