Fun at the Movies

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Valerie wrote:


            - I like Snape and Lucius better in the movies than in the books.


Also Luna. She's more spacy/adorable than batty.


- I really love the "You tell those spiders Ron!" when Ron is having a 


nightmare about spiders. Cute!


- And also the added scene of the boys clowning around in their dorms 


eating the candy. Nice touch.


- I thought the Ministry of Magic scene with the death-eaters in OotP 


was much more visually exciting in the movie than was described in the 


book. Much more dramatic and grandiose. And the effects of the DE's 


flying like black smoke and the Order flying like white smoke, was 


quite cool.


The Dumbledore/Voldemort scene was quite powerful with all the 


shattering glass, though I still hate that they left out the line in 


the book where Voldemort, speaking through Harry, tells Dumbledore to 


kill him. Much more poignant in the the book version, IMO.


Gosh, I could go on, but now I will have to go back and see all the 


movies again!


Today I came across OotP in Spanish on cable...I watched it for awhile 


(I don't speak Spanish, lol) but because I've seen the American version 


25x, I knew what they were saying. Hermione sounded just like herself. 


As did Luna! Very weird to hear Spanish coming out of Harry's mouth, 


though. And Umbridge was just as hideous and evil in Spanish as she was 


in English!

 

Mary wrote back:

You picked many of my favorite scenes also! I had not thought about
Snape, Lucius, & Luna in the way you had but I agree about Lucius
& Luna. I'm not sure about Snape. While I like Rickman, movie Snape
is too two dimensional, especially in the later movies.



>From the first movie, I have several favorite scenes: what chocolate
frogs do (jump, sometimes out windows), Hermione fixing Harry's glasses
(I wondered how he learned to repair them), and why Hagrid jinxed
Dudley and not Vernon (he was eating Harry's cake).



I've tried watching the movies in other languages but my ear is not
good enough to distinguish accents and the movies lost some of their
flavor. After the first two movies, I stopped trying as everyone
sounded alike to me.



---Mary 

 


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