SS/PS MOVIE DISCUSSION

[montavilla47]

> Montavilla47: 
> > Pretty much any magical creature is either going to be CGI or some
> kind of puppet, or both.
> 
> Carol responds:
> I forgot about the banquets in the Great Hall. Hedwig is a real owl
> (or owls), though.

Montavilla47:
Yes, but what they tend to do is take individual shots of owls flying
and combine them CGI-ly into the shots where the the owls are 
delivering mail.  If they tried to film all the owls flying together, it 
would probably end up being a shot of a lot of fighting owls!

> Montavilla47: 
> > But a lot of it was good.  The ghosts were suitably ghostly.  The
> Great Hall was terrific.  And I thought the Quidditch game was fun and
> very believable.
> 
> Carol:
> Agreed on all counts. What does everyone think of the portraits,
> specifically the Fat Lady and the changes to her appearance and
> personality in PoA?

Montavilla47
I thought that in the first film, the Fat Lady was a nice touch, but
only a touch.  It was more "oh, yeah, that's the Fat Lady" than anything
else.

I thought it weird that she was another actress in PoA, but I thought it 
was a much better use of the Portrait and the thing with the glass is
really funny.  I was going to say how much I love Dawn French (the PoA
FL), but I love Elizabeth Spriggs, too.  She was another actor who shares
the Sense and Sensability/HP connection.

This is reminding me of what I found very disappointing in PS/SS.  The
goblins!  What dreadful make-up!