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

[Missy Gallant]

Wow- I didn't even realize you weren't a native English speaker.  I must say, your writing is very well done.  I don't know if you have a thick accent, but on paper (screen?) your English is better than a lot of Americans.



--- On Mon, 8/25/08, zanooda2 <zanooda2 at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: zanooda2 <zanooda2 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [HPFGU-Movie] Re: Your favorite actor/actress in HP movies
To: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, August 25, 2008, 10:46 PM






--- In HPFGU-Movie@ yahoogroups. com, "potioncat" 
<willsonkmom@ ...wrote: 

> Movies are made for the younger crowd--well, younger than me anyway-
> So I'm going to quote part of Carol's post from a few days ago, 
> "To a fourteen-year- old, all "old people" look alike!" That was 
> from my 14-year-old' s comment that HBP!DD looks like movie!Sirius. 
> While it stings that Sirius might be considered "old" the ages of 
> the actors won't bother the younger audience.

zanooda:

Hehe, I understand that :-). As I said, Snape's age bothers *me*, but 
most people (and not only kids) don't seem to care.

> potioncat:

> On the other hand, Hollywood almost always casts actors who 
> are older than their parts. 

zanooda:

And I hate it when it happens. I watched some Sherlock Holms movies 
on TV and was unpleasantly surprised that Holms and Watson were old 
in the stories where they were supposed to be young, according to the 
books.

> potioncat:

> Back to HP actors. Except for Richard Harris and Maggie Smith, 
> almost all the actors were new to me. 

zanooda:

I knew Maggie Smith and Gary Oldman - I mean I knew them by name. 
Some actors I also knew, but not by name. I didn't know Alan Rickman 
back then, although I saw him in some movies before and liked him a 
lot. And I saw poor David Thewliss with those unfortunate 
consequences that I already described :-). 

I don't know many actors, especially British ones, and mostly know 
them from TV. When we just got to the US, I used to watch a lot of 
TV - it really helps you to understand the language :-). At school I 
learned the British variety of English, so when I came here, I 
couldn't understand one single word that people around me were 
saying. It's funny, because now I can't understand what the British 
are saying, LOL! 

 














      

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