The Tailor of Panama, and more accent stuff

[nlpnt at yahoo.com]

 I just saw this; it's sort of aggressively ordinary. Really, the 
problem is it can't decide whether it wants to be a spy thriller or a 
parody of one; this was also it's charm (if John Boorman couldn't 
take getting bombed as a kid during WW2 completely seriously, then he 
can laugh at anything).
 Dan Radcliffe had a very small role, and also seemed much shorter 
than he was in the HP stills and trailer- could this explain his 
being taller than Rupert Grint by the time of the announcement, as 
well as WB's worry about him being too big for CoS if filming were 
left to next year.
 He does speak in the exact same accent (to my Yank ears) as he uses 
in the trailer, which leads me to believe that that's how DR talks in 
real life. Methinks, though, that the Panamanian-born children of a 
British dad and an American mom would sound more American than 
English- after all, pretty much all the English-language institutions 
down there (schools, TV and radio, etc.) were originally established 
by and for Americans.