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

[mugg1eb0rn at aol.com]

Sorry, everyone. I should have read my first post so I knew that the spaces 
 and what indicates the original post were missing in my replies (now I see 
why  everyone puts in their name and "replies" in their messages!).
 
If I respond to any other posts, I will remember! the List Elves do not  
have to chastise me! I'm doing it to myself! Me bad!
 
jamelia
 
 
 In a message dated 8/12/2011 11:35:37 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
mugg1eb0rn at aol.com writes:

In a  message dated 7/20/2011 3:49:24 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
_CatMcNulty at comcast.net_ (mailto: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.
 
jamelia replies:



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 





[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]