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

[Missy Gallant]

I took the Mirror Scene completely differently.  I didn't take it as Harry seeing them how they were when he last saw them.  I thought it was him seeing what they would look like now.  He could see himself with them, like they would look now.  Like "this year's Christmas picture" or something like that.  So their ages in the mirror didn't bother me at all.

(Although thinking back- was there a baby in that scene that I'm just not remembering?  Oh goodness, I may have to re-watch that movie.  What a chore.)




--- On Tue, 8/26/08, Carol <justcarol67 at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Carol <justcarol67 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [HPFGU-Movie] Re: Your favorite actor/actress in HP movies
To: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 12:07 AM






Carol earlier:
> > OTOH, I thought right away that the people cast as James and Lily
were the wrong age, far too old to be the parents of one-year-old
Harry. They look like the parents of an eleven-year- old or even a
teenager, not of a baby.
> 
> Potioncat:
> Do you mean from SS/PS in the mirror? They looked right to me at the
time. I haven't thought of it since. Of course, I'm coming from the
PoV of a long line of old first-time-parents. 
> 
> James looked a bit dorky to have been a Quidditch hero, even if we
didn't know his other reputations at the time.

Carol:
Yes, mostly the mirror scene. James, especially, looks very
middle-aged (and professorial- -not at all like James turned out to be,
but the directors couldn't have known that). But Lily also appears in
or near the opening scene, where we see her with baby Harry just
before she's killed, and they both appear as "echoes" in GoF, played
by the same actors as in SS/PS. I thought then that they had somehow
magically aged, looking as they would look if they'd survived (after
all, they're standing beside the eleven-year- old Harry), but I don't
think that's what JKR intended. They're supposed to look in the mirror
as they do in the photographs, no more than twenty-one or twenty-two
years old. But even if the filmmakers had known how young they were at
death, I think they'd have chosen middle-aged actors to reepresent
James and Lily in the mirror to avoid confusing viewers who hadn't
read the books. (Those kids are Harry's parents?) Still, though,
Adrian Rawlins (James) was forty-three at the time and will be around
52 by the time his death scene gets filmed--if it's included in DH.
Way too old to play James Potter.

And speaking of actors who are too old for their roles, Vernon Dursley
shouldn't be all that much older than Snape and Lupin if Petunia is
just two years older than Lily. I'd put him at no more than 42 to 44
by the end of the series. But the actor who plays him, Richard
Griffiths, just turned 61. (He shares a birthday, July 31, with Harry
Potter and JKR.)

Carol, wondering what JKR thinks of that last coincidence