Fun at the Movies

[Carol]

Lizzie wrote: 
> Personally I'm convinced they 'uglify' AR for Snape.  Even when he's playing an older man such as Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd, AR looks better than Snape.  And definitely better looking in his latest movie, Bottle Shock.  'Course the facial hair probably helps!

Carol responds:
"Uglify"? How? They give him a black wig and dark contact lenses, and they cover his naturally ruddy complexion with what looks like (but can't be!) lead-based make-up to make it pale, but that's his own nose. And sometimes, even in OoP, he looks just fine (but, of course, older than snape should be):

http://www.whysnape.net/images/hp5/hp5_snape04.jpg

When he looks ugly, IMO it's either the lighting (I still think he looks ghastly in the scene where Umbridge is asking him whether he applies every year for the DADA position--

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/harrypotter/images/3/3d/Umbridge_inspecting_Snape.jpg
or
http://tinyurl.com/bn8l3g

not to be confused with the scene near the end where he tells her that she's used up all the Veritaserum) or his facial expression, for example, when he's yelling at Harry and Ron because of the flying car in COS:

http://spetsnaz.fateback.com/slytherin/pictures/images/severus_snape-cos-03.jpg
or
http://tinyurl.com/cwotop

Carol, who thinks that if the moviemakers wanted to "uglify" Snape, they'd have followed Mary Grandpre's lead and given him a devilish goatee and a prosthetic hooked nose