Casting decisions (was: Half-Blood Prince)

[potioncat]

> zanooda:  
> 
> You are sooo right - Snape is never funny in the books, but in the 
> movies he is (or almost is :-)). 

Potioncat:
Well, yes and no...In CoS when Ron and Harry are looking into the 
Great Hall and wondering aloud where Snape is, he interrupts them 
with something along the line of "or maybe he's wondering why you 
didn't arrrive on the train with the other students..."

Granted, Ron and Harry were pretty frightened at that point, but I 
thought it was funny.

But I do agree, too many movie!Snape scenes are played for the humor 
of it--although I did like the one with the portrait.

zanooda:
 But Rickman is great 
> anyway - I don't accept him as Snape because he is so old, but no 
one 
> can deny that he is great, great, great :-).


Potioncat, shocked..shocked! Old? She checks Rickman's 
birthdate...nope. Doesn't look old to her. She takes a look at his 
characters in more recent movies...still looking good there.

Not at all old. Although he does excede age expections as far as 
Snape is concerned.

Potioncat, who thinks someone should have asked the question, "how 
old are the characters and will it matter to the plot?" before they 
did any casting.