[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Casting mis-steps

[Child of Midian]

From: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com [mailto:HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Carol



md wrote: 
> I liked that in PS & COS that there was the great expanse of the Dark
Forest just beyond Hagrid's hut, since they moved the hut the Dark Forest
seems to have vanished and in the last three films there's just an expanse
of ordinary woods around the grounds. I only cared that they moved the hut
because these changes really break the continuity from the first two films
to the third one and after. In many respects there's Harry Potter 1 & 2 and
Harry Potter 3 through 7 (well, soon enough) rather than one series of
films, I think the change in topography visually separates the films by
drawing the audience's attention to the differences.

Carol responds:

I agree about the break between HP 1 and 2 and the later films making them
seem as if they belong to two different series, but I think that that break
would have been noticeable even without the changes in topography because of
the Cuaron-initiated changes in costuming and makeup. Those changes, for me
(along with the shrunken heads), make PoA particularly jarring when I watch
it soon after the first two films.

By the way, it looks as if the Quidditch players no longer wear robes in HBP
even though the films' costume designers have always had the actors wear
pants (trousers) under them. Now they'll just have digitally added cloaks. I
guess JKR never considered the difficulty of riding a broom wearing a robe.
(Dumbledore will have to manage it in HBP, though.)

Carol, 

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I think tone had to change because of the subject matter, I think visually
the change has to happen again, because of the subject matter and I think
the muggle clothes makes sense because we keep seeing the kids outside of
class and Hogwarts and for gods sake, everyone, let the shrunken heads go,
it's like 5 minutes of screen time, let's stop talking like it ruined the
film. I just watched POA yesterday (viva la blu-ray) and it remains a
excellent film on many levels.

 

md

 



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