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

[Nightbreed]

>From a book standpoint, the first two films included the most material and
where the most strictly faithful. This sprung from Columbus's fear that fans
would kill him if he strayed even a hair from the source material.

 

As for Columbus the director, I suppose if you like films aimed at 10 and
younger crowds he's your guy. After all, his monument achievements where
"Home Alone" and "Mrs. Doubtfire" and both films hearken back to "Leave it
to Beaver" and "Lucy" and if you like that sort of front-loaded for the kids
and the grandma's sort of thing he can do it.


My problem with his direction of the first two films was his focus on plot
trumping everything else. His camera was lazy and boring, his actors were
never directed to become their characters and the "fantasy" was largely not
there. They seemed very rooted in the mundane and the ordinary. There's
interviews (see DVD) on HP3 where the cast talk about how they were asked to
think about their characters, write like them and really find out who they
were. This is the third film and now the actors are being asked to find
their character's voices.

 

The Harry Potter films are the only think Columbus ever directed I can watch
and that's a compliment to JKR not Columbus. I danced with joy when he
stopped directing them and I think every film since has been a monumental
achievement over the first 2.

 

md

 

From: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com [mailto:HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com] On
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I never read the first two books so I wasn't so upset over the first two
movies as i have been the last few (except for GOF) anyhow I thought Chris
Colombus (and most of my friends agree) was the best director of the century
and we wished he could have done all the movies. I think it so messed up the
movies that there was a different director for three and four.

Love,
Red

--- On Wed, 8/27/08, Nightbreed <md at exit-reality.com
<mailto:md%40exit-reality.com> > wrote:
From: Nightbreed <md at exit-reality.com <mailto:md%40exit-reality.com> >
Subject: RE: [HPFGU-Movie] Re: Your favorite actor/actress in HP movies
To: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com <mailto:HPFGU-Movie%40yahoogroups.com> 
Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 4:01 PM

I think Grint came into his own (as did all the kids) in the third film.
Having children nearing those ages I say the acting in the first film was
spot-on!

As for Grint, I think the second movie almost killed the character. Chris
Columbus (my choice for worse-director of the century) had Grint whine and
squeal and look like he was about to throw up or be in the grip of
constipation for the entire film. He was used as nothing more than Harry's
side-kick comic relief. But, I think Curion and the other directors have
remedied that it will be interesting this November (Damn! Next July Up-yours
WB) to see them all fall in love in HBP.

md

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

None of the child actors are particularly good (imho)...except 
> perhaps for Tom Felton
> 
> I'm sure I'll be trashed but the trio is okay....nothing
special...
> can't summon ANY enthusiasm for Rupert Grint.,,,he was great in the 
> first movie, and then went rapidly downhill.....Ginny, Fred, George, 
> Percy, Seamus, Dean okay, but not great...
> 
> If I had to pick child actors I'd pick Tom Felton, first!, then maybe 
> Sean Biggerstaff...then Matthew Lewis.....then maybe Evanna 
> Lynch...then maybe Katie Leung
> 
> Susan
>
sartoris22:

I agree that the Malfoys are well cast. However, I completely disagree 
about Rupert Grint going downhill as an actor. I think Grint is great 
in all the movies; in fact, he is the actor I most look forward to 
seeing. Of the three principals, he is usually the most criticized, but 
I think that is because of the way he has been utilized in the movies 
and what he has been asked to play, which is the "everyman" and
perhaps 
the "loser." Although Grint receives less fan attention and adoration

than Radcliffe and Watson, it doesn't seem to bother him. He appears to 
be almost egoless, and that is saying something for an international 
star. To me, he is the glue the holds the thing together, sublimating 
his own ego and career for the good of the team. I can't imagine any 
American actor who would continue to see his role reduced as the movies 
progressed and handle it with such grace and good humor. Moreover, of 
the three principals, he is the most natural actor, the least mannered 
and self conscious. Consider in OOTP his reaction to Hermione 
asking "Do you ever stop eating?" or his entire performace in the 
dancing with Maggie Smith scene in OOTP. And if you see him in Driving 
Lessons, you might agree that he effortlessly inhabits the role of 
Ben. While he won't be taken more seriously until he plays more 
dramatic, possibly violent roles, Grint, I think, is a joy to watch. 
And when you compare his early characterizations in the Potter movies--
where it seems that they asked for a more slapsticky performance-- to 
his more somber performance in OOTP, you will see an actor with an 
impressive range.

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