[HPforGrownups] MOVIE: Vanity Fair layout observations

[Kelly Hurt]

No: HPFGUIDX 26130

--- "Hillman, Lee" <lee_hillman at urmc.rochester.edu> wrote:

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>Second, I've commented before about
>the long tables--in most Medieval
>halls, they are oriented the only way
>possible, despite Rowling's
>description. No problem with that
>change

Also, the students sit on chairs in the Great Hall, not benches as the
movie shows.

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>The wall sconces are held in the
>mouths of beast-like gargoyles.

Wouldn't they, technically, be grotesques?

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>Richard Harris

Sir Richard is an incredibly gifted actor if -- and that's a *very* big
if -- he has a strong director to control him.  I'm afraid that Mr.
Colombus might not be up to it and Harris will be a little over-the-top
with his Dumbledore.

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>Dame Maggie Smith is totally perfect.

When isn't she?:-)

>I know others disagree, but she has
>always been the person whom I picture
>as McGonagall. 

Me too!
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>Note to SCAdians on this list: both
>her costume and Nick's look great.

Is Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington's costume from _four_ hundred or
_five_ hundred years ago?  What about the one described in the books?

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<description of Quidditch gear>

Aaaarrrrggghhh!  They play in ROBES!  See the last drawing in QTTA --
drawn by Ms Rowling herself -- for proof.

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>I'd rather not have the Unicorn
>Tapestry wall paper. 

No book handy, but isn't it supposed to be stone walls with REAL
tapestries?

>Ron looks suitably smudged from having
>been thrown down a dirt shaft, tangled
>up in roots, and then set on fire. 

Fire?  What fire?  Ron doesn't go near the fire!

Kelly the Yarn Junkie

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