[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Running Gags

[Elizabeth Drury]

Amusingly enough, Ron stepping on Hermione's foot in PoA is the only book
where it actually happens.  Same scene and everything.  I agree that it
doesn't fit the movie scene at all, but you gotta give them points for at
least including a canon line, considering they gave Hermione everyone else's
lines throughout the movie.

Goes back to her lurkdom,
Libby

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:34 AM, anne_t_squires
<tfaucette6387 at charter.net>wrote:

>   Curious Cat wrote:
> >
> > My favorite running gag was in SS/PS when Hagrid kept spilling the
> > beans about stuff and catching himself too late and uttering the
> > line "Shouldn't have tol' ya that."
> >
> > OH and the fact that they FINALLY had the twins uttering the same
> > lines in sync. I have known several sets of twins and especially when
> > they were younger, they would say the same thing at the same time.
> >
> > What running gag did you find humourous, distracting or annoying?
> >
> > Curious
> > Cat
> >
>
> Anne Squires:
>
> "Ow, Ron, that was my foot you stepped on." Or something very
> similar. Spoken by Hermione.
>
> I know this line is definitely in the first three films. I think it's
> also in GoF and OotP. I don't think this line is actually in any of
> the books though. Of course I could be mistaken. Anyhow, whenever
> Hermione says this it makes me grin each time. However, in PoA I find
> it both amusing and annoying at the same time. It's amusing to me
> because I think the fact that Ron keeps stepping on Hermione's foot is
> amusing. He's such a teenager with the ungainly lack of coordination
> that sometimes entails. And it's Hermione he keeps stepping on. Come
> on, that's just... well, like I said, amusing. In PoA, Hermione says
> this on the train just after the train stops and the power goes off.
> When I look at how that scene is blocked I just don't understand how
> Ron could have possibly stepped on Hermione's foot without greatly
> contorting himself. Thus, while I find it amusing, I am also annoyed
> because it seems extremely forced. It's as if someone (writer,
> director??) felt the line had to be in the film but they really
> couldn't find a place to put it, so they stuck it in this scene. It's
> amusing, but at the same time it always jerks me out of the film for a
> second. I can imagine a boardroom with several people discussing the
> fact that they've got this line and they've got to put it in the film
> somewhere, so... this scene is as good as any.
>
> JMO
>
> Anne Squires
>
>  
>


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