Fun at the Movies

[Carol]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" <susiequsie23 at ...> wrote:
>
> 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
>
Carol responds:

That's the shot I had in mind. I've seen it online a zillion times, but, of course, when I'm looking for it I can't find it. I't's not in my own collection of Snape photos because I hate it. I checked Google images (not all the images because there are too many) using various search terms. I also tried Leaky, but the CoS shots are in a random sequence and the thumbnails are so small that they hurt my eyes, and Mugglenet, but for some reason, that site takes forever to load on my computer. If anyone has a link to that "puffy shot" (where R!S also looks exceptionally angry) please let me know.

I agree that he looks really good (despite being too old for the part) in most of the CoS and SS/PS shots. Oddly, most of the Snape fansites have all sorts of stills from both those films but not so many from PoA, GoF, and OoP. Surely, his role wasn't reduced that much in the later films. Maybe the fans just gave up because loading all those shots was too much work.

Carol, wishing she had a faster Internet connection and bigger monitor