What the actors knew or what we thought they knew

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> He talks about special effects and Quidditch and playing a 
> Half-Giant who sometimes has to hold back his impulses to 
> violence (not a side of Hagrid that I was aware of, unless 
> you count not knowing his own strength).


zanooda:

I never noticed any impulses to violence in Hagrid :-). I think we saw him show his temper in OotP, when he was being arrested, but this is understandable :-). Besides, he became *really* violent only after they Stunned Fang and then McGonagall.

 
> Carol responds:
 
> If the filmmakers took those descriptions literally, they 
> must have missed the unreliable narrator (Harry's 
> misinterpretations presented as fact) altogether!


zanooda:

But the very first description of Hagrid that I cited is not from Harry's POV, it's from the first chapter, where Harry is just a baby. OTOH, logically, if Hagrid was really twice as tall as other people, he couldn't have ridden a Muggle motocycle or a train :-). I suppose both directors just liked the idea of giant-sized Hagrid because they thought he would look awesome on the screen :-). But when it came to the real Giant in the movie (Grawp), I didn't like how he looked, didn't like it at all ;-(.