How we picture characters

[potioncat]

> Dungrollin:
> Yes, me; and I appreciate this may make me unpopular. He's too old, 
> he's not tall enough, and he's not spikey enough. And I hate the 
> costume and the wig. 

Potioncat:
Not tall enough? He's 6'1" (according to IMDB). Snape is supposed to 
be shorter than Black. So I doubt canon Snape is over 6' Sad to say, 
he really is too old for this character. But never, ever would I want 
anyone else but Rickman for Snape. It does after all, put Snape in my 
age range. ;-)

Well, I don't care for any of the wizards' costumes (except for DD in 
the first two) or any of the kids' costumes. The women professors are 
alright. I thought, after Snape showed his dark mark in the books, 
that there had been a plan all along for his sleeves to be so long---
so to hide the mark. But they cut that scene anyway.

But that wig! They could have done much better.


Some time back, I was considering that canon!Snape would not be as 
yummy as Movie!Snape and was trying to picture a better image. There 
was a movie on the TV with a charactr that seemd to "be" canon!Snape. 
Turns out it was Tim Roth in Rob Roy. He is only 5'7"  I thought that 
was particularly interesting because I don't know Tim Roth from a 
housecat, but I'd read once that he had been an early contender for 
Snape.

Dung: 
> While we're at it, (and it may have been mentioned before), does 
> anyone else think that what JKR told Rickman was about Legilimency? 
> All that eyeballing Rickman does when he's looking at Harry in the 
> first two films makes me think so.


Potioncat:
It certainly seems so. But, really, sometimes it seems they get it 
right by accident.