new poster

[sophiamcl]

> WHY do they *always* pose DR with his head down and his eyes looking
> up at you in those posters?  As if they were going for the Feral Cat
> look, or the Dangerous look, but I can't help thinking of it as the
> Sex Kitten look (for females, normally).
> 
> He never does that in the movies, and I never imagine Harry does 
that,
> either.  Does it bug anybody else, or am I the only one?  :P
> 
> Annemehr
> who would like those posters if it wasn't for that, even though they
> look overly airbrushed, and who isn't even mentioning Rupert Grint's
> usual expression...

Hm. Good point. I wouldn't say it was always, though. You've seen 
more of it in the US, I think, as the official US posters for SS and 
CoS were quite different from the international ones. For SS, it's a 
three-quarter profile of a cherub-cheeked boy gazing into the 
distance in the international one, whereas the US poster shows just 
the kind of pose you described. It should please you then, that the 
official movie poster for PoA is NOT like that. 

As for this one, it's more of the "dangerous look" to me, I guess. I 
actually hadn't reflected on it. You're absolutely right, he never 
comes off like that in the movies of course--so far. (Though as for 
this movie, I have heard that we will see an angrier Harry than we 
may expect, so perhaps it's not altogether off the mark in that 
respect.)I think maybe they're going for look of the jaw-clenched 
concentration and barely contained fury of an action hero. Daniel 
does have a remarkable capacity to bore his eyes into (out of)the 
still photo, I suppose marketing wished to capitalize on it. But be 
that as it may, I think it's a really nice composition.

As for Rupert, poor boy,I agree: He never seems to get to make any 
other faces on those posters regardless of what the other two are 
conveying...

Sophia