Fun at the Movies

[cubfanbudwoman]

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):

SSSusan:
LOL.  Lizzie, I thought in Bottle Shock he looked a little dopey, although that was more about the '70s fashions than about AR. :)  

I'm actually with Carol on this.  I just watched him in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, and I find it MUCH harder to take him when he's got a wig such as that worn by Judge Turpin in Sweeney or Richis in Perfume than when he's wearing his Snape wig.  

He *is* too old for the character, but I don't think he's been uglified.  In fact, he's allowed to have a *non-greasy* black wig and to look a little pasty, rather than yellow & oily... and to have regular teeth, rather than yellowing teeth.  (Not that AR's teeth are particularly attractive -- especially the bottom ones -- but that's pure AR, not uglifying him for the Snape role.)


Carol:
> 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--

SSSusan: 
The one time I thought he looked bad in the HP movies was in CoS, when his face looks puffy.  (The scene when Harry & Ron are getting in trouble for the crashing the Flying Ford Anglia into the Whomping Willow.)  Then I read that he had a terrible sinus infection when he filmed that scene, which explained the puffiness a bit.  

Siriusly Snapey Susan