[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Actors in HP movies

[bumbledore]

Explain WHY she had to do something funny, when in the book she doesn't.
Stop making excuses for their lame arse movie making skills.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dina Lerret" <bunniqula at gmail.com>
To: <HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Actors in HP movies


> 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
>
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