[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Actors in HP movies

[Dina Lerret]

On 6/27/05, bumbledore <bumbledore at comcast.net> wrote:

> made Harry Potter the phenomena that it is today.  We don't need touches of
> senseless humor, aka Hollywoodization,  in the move. I.E. The fatlady's
> breaking of the wine glass in POA. Its a shame that we Americans seem to
> celebrate stupidity.

Err, I don't think that was an 'American' idea.  The Fat Lady really
doesn't have that many 'humourous' scenes and they spent money to have
Dawn French... so, she had to do something 'funny' or whatever.

Granted, I don't really 'laugh out loud' from the HP books; it took
*some* HP movie scenes for me to start cracking up.  This isn't saying
I don't find the books amusing but I don't really laugh at the books'
humour--more like snort.  Touching back on the movies, for example, I
kept cracking up during the 'expecto patronum' scenes in POA because
it's like the spell only works when Daniel Radcliffe is
hyperventilating and the camera is shaking.

Dina