Deathly Hallows and Polyjuice

[eggplant107]

"Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:

> If you were directing the film version of
> Deathly Hallows, would you drop the
> Polyjuice disguises 

That is an interesting question and I understand the problem you're
talking about. If I were the director I wouldn't use Polyjuice for the
cemetery sequence, I think we could get by without it. In the book
during the Gringott's bank robbery they pass under a waterfall and
revert back to their original selves, I think I might speed that us a
bit, perhaps have it happen as soon as the walked into the bank. The
raid on the Ministry is more of a problem. Harry is the most wanted
man in the world so he can't just waltz into the Ministry undisguised,
it would be ridiculous. Perhaps you could use other actors but have
them speak with Dan, Emma, and Rupert's voices to remind the audience
who they really are.

> during the Gringott's break in, Hermione 
> is polyjuices as Bella. We have an actress
> who plays Bella. But that actress in those
> scenes can't simply play Bell, in reality,
> she would have to play Hermione. She would
> have to adopt Emma/Hermione's attitudes
> and demeanor. 

Yes but that's what actors do. I couldn't do it but actors are
specialists skilled in doing precisely that. Any professional actress
worth her salt should be able to pull in off. We would have a good
actress pretending to be a bad actress, because Hermione's portrayal
of Bella wasn't very good. I love Hermione but she's not a good
actress, Emma on the other hand is a very good actress.    

Eggplant