Bill's injury (Re: The Problems with the DH movie)

[Carol]

Richard wrote: 
<snip book description of Bill's injuries>
> I picture nasty slashes across the face and head (where hair will never grow back) and partially ripped out pieces of neck and cheek with teeth marks.  
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> A few deep, never-healing slashes across the face seem reasonable as representations of the injury for the movie though.  The actor would probably have a much harder time doing his job if he had enough prosthetics to make his face really disfigured... and it would be really distracting for the whole wedding thing :)

Carol responds:
In the book, Bill's injuries are invisible at the wedding because of the magic of the Goblin-made tiara that Fleur has borrowed from Auntie Muriel; instead of outshining everyone, she beautifies everyone around her when she's wearing it. I'm quite sure that we won't see *that* tiara, though--it would be too hard (impossible) to duplicate *that* magic.

In the film (DH1), I suspect that he'll be injured offscreen after the wedding. As you say, the filmmakers can't make his injuries too grotesque or he won't be recognizable. I do hope, though, that they don't go for a PG rating again. Even the death of Hedwig will upset the little kids. Both DH films really need to be PG-13.
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Carol, who read a review of HBP yesterday that claimed the films were *better* than the books--less sprawling and more tightly plotted (to each his own!)