More comments on the set report (spoilers)

[Steve]

---  "bgrugin" <bgrugin at ...> wrote:
>
> > zanooda:
> > > 
> > > I found some on-set pictures, and she is really blond! 
> > > ... Here is the link (it looks suspiciously long, so if 
> > > it doesn't> work, just Google Narcissa Malfoy images :-)):
> > > 
> > >
> >
>
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i28.tinypic.com/33x7es5.jpg&imgrefurl=http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/22399282.html&h=316&w=593&sz=82&hl=en&start=26&um=1&tbnid=NT_mbLUwfmUZBM:&tbnh=72&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dnarcissa%2Bmalfoy%26start%3D20%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26channel%3Ds%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN
> > >
> > Carol responds:
> > It's real. Here she is with the director in the background:
> > 
> > http://i29.tinypic.com/2mn3tjp.jpg
> > 
> > Hm. That's an odd URL for a full-size photo. Hope the link
> > works!
> > 
> > Carol, wondering how they managed to make Helen McCrory look
> > like that and noting the very uncanonical gown
> >
> 
> 
> MusicalBetsy:
> Ugh - that's all I can say.  She's not pretty enough!!  Okay,
> she may do a *great* job at acting like Narcissa (I can't 
> really comment on that)...but she just doesn't seem to 
> physically BE Narcissa at all!!
> 
> I keep getting more and more depressed about HBP - I want to
> be satisfied, for once!
>

bboyminn:

On the 'uncanonical gown', I agree as you will see from the
rest of my comment. 

While Narcissa is not an un-handsome women, I absolutely don't
get the image that she is a sexpot. The low-cut bare-sleeved
gown with the long flowing hair seem completely inappropriate
for someone as stodgy as Narcissa. I would expect a more
formal and traditional dress that comes up to the neck and 
with arms covered, plus her hair done up in a tight formal
bun (or equivalent). 

I really do get the very formal stodgy sense from Narcissa. 
I also get the sense that she feels she has done her duty
and produced a son, and is now no longer eager to look
'sexy' for Lucius or any one else. 

In a way, seeing her in that dress is like seeing the Queen
in that dress, it just seems out of place. Though, I 
acknowledge the Queen is certainly older. 

I think it is a case of the producers and directors wanting
to sex things up a bit to make the movie more interesting,
but I have to say, I would be far more interested if they
would stick to the characters in the books. I think, for
the most part, they got Lucius and Draco alright, and did
a tolerable job on Bellatrix, but they are way off base on
Narcissa. She very much needs to be Stern and Stodgy.

Just one man's opinion.

Steve/bboyminn