SS/PS MOVIE DISCUSSION

[Carol]

zanooda wrote:
> 
> Hehe, Carol, you made me watch the entire SS ending, which I don't
> like, BTW :-). No, in the movie LV says "Stop him", not "Seize him".
> Also, I can't find now who asked about Harry and DD's conversation in
> the hospital wing - what exactly DD said about Snape's motives for
> saving Harry's life. The answer is: nothing :-). DD doesn't say one
> single word about Snape in this scene, and Harry doesn't ask his
> question about Snape either, so there :-)!
>
Carol again:

thanks for checking. Reminds me of OoP (the film), where DD again says
nothing about Snape (and consequently, filmgoers have no clue that
snape sent the Order to the MoM). In this case, there's no set-up for
the conflict between MWPP (MP--Moony and Padfoot) and Snape in PoA
(and PoA, the film, doesn't develop the conflict sufficiently, either;
OoP the film makes it look simply as if James ("Swine") Potter had it
out for young Sev). It's not clear yet whether Snape's anger at Sirius
Black in PoA will ever be revealed as stemming more from Black's
supposed betrayal of Lily than from SWM.

I must say that "Stop him!" is an improvement over "Seize him!" but
the omitted scenes and information, particularly Snape's clever
Potions riddle with its curtains of fire (choose the wrong potion and
you're poisoned or trapped by fire), are disappointing, to say the
least. I guess I'll always prefer the books to the films no matter how
well the films are acted, how good the casting, or how brilliant the
CGI, especially the Dementors and Buckbeak (but not the werewolf) in PoA.

I'm trying to think of CGI scenes in SS/PS specifically (other than
McGonagall's transformation from cat to woman, which was just done
with shadows) that could have been done better. The troll was okay
(didn't FOTR borrow bits of that scene a few years later?) and Norbert
the dragon was pretty good. Firenze and Quirrell!mort, as I've already
said, not so good.

Carol, wishing that she'd kept a journal recording her original reactions