Student body makeup of Durmstrang and Beauxbatons

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:

> Personally, I think they should have emphasized the Veela
> aspect of Fleur by always filming her in soft focus and 
> moving in slow motion, while everyone else moved in real-
> time and standard focus. 


That's what I always say. I don't know how these special effects are
called, but certainly there are ways to show that a character's beauty
is not of human origin. Take LOTR, for example - I don't know how they
do it, but their Galadriel always seems to be glowing from inside, and
her skin seems unnaturally smooth etc.
 
Movie-makers should do it every time when a character is not just your
regular mortal woman, like Helen of Troy, for example. Helen was
half-goddess, and however attractive an actress would play her,
without some special effects I won't believe that a war could start
over her :-).

This being said, I think that they couldn't do it with Fleur, because
she is not a Veela in the movie, and Veela in general weren't even
mentioned, so it would be strange if she was moving slowly or whatever
else. The best thing they could have done, but didn't, was to find a
really beautiful girl to play Fleur - there have to be at least one in
whole France :-)! This would be enough to justify Ron's reaction to her. 

As it is, even Hermione is prettier than Fleur, and, IMO, so is every
single girl in Beauxbatons delegation. But that's just my personal
opinion, of course - different nations (and different people, at that)
seem to have different beauty standards :-).


zanooda