Snape's eyes, Lucius and Narcissa (Was: Slughorn's party and Alan Rickman's eyes

[Cat]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
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> Unrelated question: I was looking at the "Sweeney Todd" premiere
> photos posted on Leaky and noticed that Alan Rickman's eyes are a much
> lighter brown than they are in the films, where they appear almost
> black. Does anyone know whether he wears contacts to make his eyes
> resemble Snape's? In the HP films, his eyes look very much as I always
> picture Snape's eyes when I read his description in the books.
> 
> Carol, hoping to see every single Snape scene from both HBP and DH
> traslated to film
>
 
Yes, Alan does wear contacts in the Harry Potter movies. The dark 
contacts along with the black wig make him fit JKR's description of 
Snape.

Now, it seemed the contacts were always black (or at least very, very 
dark)until the close-up scene when Harry breaks into Snape's memories 
in OotP. In that scene his eyes appear medium brown. I was a bit 
surprised by that.

...on another note ... Did Lucius and Snape seem a bit puffier in OotP 
to anyone else? Maybe it was just the low camera angles. <shrug>
At any rate I think they (Isaacs and Rickman)are absolutely fantastic 
in their roles! And I can't imagine anyone doing their respective roles 
justice.
Carol, I agree I hope to see a bunch more of Snape in HBP and DH also.
Sadly, poor Lucius is in Azkaban and we don't get to see him again 
until DH.

... But we FINALLY get to meet Narcissa! I am looking forward to that.
I know that several on this list have balked at the casting of Helen 
McCrory as Narcissa but I am intrigued. With a white blonde wig and 
blue contacts, I think she will be a marvelous visual conterpoint to 
Carter's Bella. We'll see if she has the acting capacity to do Narcissa 
justice.

Cat