Screaming scene

[Ebony AKA AngieJ]

No: HPFGUIDX 13412

Delurking for a sec to read trailer posts...

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., foxmoth at q... wrote:
> Did anyone think we were gonna get a  movie *without* a screaming 
> scene? From *this* director? At least they don't have their hands 
up 
> around their faces.
> Pippin

Aw, c'mon, Pip!  :-D  You can't say that Dan is a dead ringer for 
Macaulay Culkin (BTW, wonder what Home Alone Boy's up to these 
days?).  Just from the little we can discern from the trailer, I 
don't think a case can be made for sickly-sweet "I'm soo cute" 
acting.  Which was one of my fears about a live-action movie.  

Despite the screaming and giggling I've been doing to fandom friends 
via IM over the past 48 hours ("Aah!  I can't stop watching it, 
Carole!"), my optimism is still cautious.  It'll be great to come out 
of the closet to my sisters (who will LOVE the movie--they're just 
not big on recreational reading!), but it'll be even more great if 
some of the small nitpicks are corrected.

The Great Hall was perfect IMHO.  I always imagined a larger room, 
but after watching the trailer, it's now fixed in my memory and will 
remain there as I read.

I have to get used to seeing the actors in their roles, especially 
Emma and Rupert.  The glimpse of Felton made me exhale (winks at all 
the Draco fans)--yes, that's Draco.  Dan is perfect as Harry... hope 
they'll do movie versions of the PS and SS covers.  Except... where's 
the scar?  I know his hair's covering it, but...

Have no problem with the "Boy Who Lived" line, especially when it was 
my sig quote in early fandom days some months back.  What's wrong 
with slogans?  Campaigns are run, wars waged, and empires built on 
their foundation.  Ender Wiggin is the Xenocide and the Speaker for 
the Dead, Superman's Faster Than a Speeding Bullet... Harry Potter's 
the Boy Who Lived.  Works for me.

The Wingardium Leviosa business was too cute... now we'll have to 
endure months of the Feather Theory, right, Kathy and Mo?  

(Which reminds me.  Kathy and Mo and others of like temperament, go 
to ff.net and read "Picturesque"... you'll know why once you start 
reading it.  Penny and crew, read that one with a grain of salt, then 
if you're in the mood for fluff designed for those of our 
inclination, read "Dancing Shoes".)  ;-)

Back to deep lurkdom... 

--Ebony AKA AngieJ