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

Fri Aug 29 01:44:46 UTC 2008

I will have to agree with Red, I think Chris Columbus is an excellent director. One of my all time, non-HP, favorite movies is Stepmom, which he directed.

Director Chris Columbus (Mrs. Doubtfire, Home Alone), brings 
audiences a compelling film about the joys and challenges of family life in the 
'90s. Julia Roberts (Academy Award-nominee, Pretty Woman) plays 
Isabel, a career-minded fashion photographer forced into a role as unwelcome 
stepmother to her boyfriend Luke's (Ed Harris, The Truman Show) 
two children, 12-year-old Anna (Jenna Malone, Bastard Out Of 
Carolina) and seven-year-old Ben (Liam Aiken, The Object Of My 
Affection). It is the universal dilemma of the non-traditional family: both 
Isabel and the children love Luke, but the two parties don't even like, much 
less love, each other. When Jackie (Susan Sarandon, Academy Award-winner, 
Dead Man Walking), the natural mother and peerless supermom who not only 
resents Isabel's intrusion on a number of levels but is fiercely devoted to her 
kids, enters the mix, the often comical, always complex interplay between 
parents, stepparents, stepchildren, spouses-to-be, ex-spouses and significant 
others gets even trickier

 ~~Tiffany Marie
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From: md at exit-reality.com
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:49:17 -0400
Subject: RE: [HPFGU-Movie] Re: Your favorite actor/actress in HP movies

            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

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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

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

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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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