[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Did I Imagine it? - Spoilers

[mugg1eb0rn at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/20/2011 3:49:24 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
CatMcNulty at comcast.net writes:

Cat  Replies:

Granted it may be that Dan and Geradine's eyes match. In the  movie it is 
hard to tell because all of their scenes together are shadowy  and/or dark. 
The Lily I am refering to is YOUNG Lily with the glaringly  apparent DARK 
BROWN eyes as seen in the bright daylight extreme close  up.





I noticed this too, but it only bothered me for a little  while. There are 
two reasons I thought of that would account for this apparent  discrepancy:
 
1. In one of the scenes, DAN'S eyes looked brown to me. I know  some of the 
special effects used in the movies were various types of "color  washes" 
for mood. It's possible that something like this might have caused the  young 
actress' eyes to look a different color than they usually are. They often  
seemed to play with the color palette in the "memory" or Penseive scenes,  
especially by washing out a lot of the colors.
 
2. The producers may not have been able to find a young  actress with blue 
eyes who they thought could handle the part as well as the  girl they 
finally cast for young Lily. Personally, I'd rather a girl with the  wrong color 
eyes rather than a kid who would not have been able to  been good, if that 
was the choice they had to make. I do agree, however,  that with all the other 
effects they played with, the producers could have given  her the right 
color eyes if that were the case; it wasn't a deal-breaker  for me.
 
I actually was impressed that they did as good a job as they  did tying up 
the loose ends of the plot, given the omissions and changes made in  
previous movies. As others have mentioned, there were a couple of changes I  
thought were improvements on the books.
 
I agree with the poster (sorry--forgot who it was so I can't  go back to 
your quote) who said they thought it made sense that Voldemort could  "feel" 
when a horcrux was destroyed, which he didn't in the books. I also  thought 
that the explanation that Harry could "feel" where the diadem was  because of 
the horcrux in it made perfect sense, given the effects the  locket had on 
HRH in Part 1, which IS part of canon in the book.
 
The explanation of how Harry was the master of the Elder Wand  made SO much 
more sense in the movie than in the books. I also didn't have  a problem 
with Harry's snapping it and throwing it away instead of fixing his  original 
wand. In the scene with Ollivander in Shell Cottage, the wand maker  told 
Harry that Draco's wand had "changed its allegiance" to him. Since Harry's  
wand and Voldemort's had a shared history, maybe Harry wouldn't have felt the  
need to get his original wand back in the movie HP universe. We who read 
(and  reread!) the books know how devastated Harry was to lose his wand, but 
in the  movie, the key thing was that he needed a wand to use that would work 
for him.  As long as he had one that had "chosen" him, Harry in the movies 
was good to  go.
 
Do I have quibbles about how some things were handled in the  movies? Sure, 
but I am one of you who have no trouble separating Movie HP  Universe from 
Book HP Universe. I think what they did, with all of the time  constraints 
forced by the rate the kid actors were maturing, was a remarkable  
achievement. I've enjoyed the comments of many of you who have not been happy  about 
certain things, but I'm really happy with the movies  overall.
 
jamelia 

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