SS/PS MOVIE DISCUSSION

[Carol]

zanooda write:
> P.S.  I wonder why Movie!Firenze looks more like Book!Bane that like
> Book!Firenze :-). What was the point of changing him?

Carol responds:
I don't think the filmmakers realized that any of the Centaurs would
be coming back into the films and so, IIRC, they used only Firenze,
leaving out Bane and Ronan and Magorian and whoever else appeared in
SS/PS (the book), just as they left out the other Hippogriffs and used
only Buckbeak in the PoA film, possibly anticipating (correctly) that
he was the only Hippogriff who would play a later role. (I wonder what
happened to the others, BTW.) It evidently didn't matter to them what
Firenze looked like as long as he was unmistakably a Centaur. Clearly,
they weren't thinking of him as handsome, blond, and humanlike to the
waist. He looks like a Homo Erectus torso attached to a horse's body
to me. I don't know how closely the CGI people read the descriptions
in the book. Maybe they just designed a Centaur the way they
envisioned one or thought that moviegoers would envision one (rather
different from the only other film Centaurs I recall seeing, in
Disney's original "Fantasia").

Carol, who doesn't like the animation of Firenze *or* of the Voldie
thingie in this scene