[HPforGrownups] Not so bad Snape (was Re: Sexy Snape?)

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 139556

> Potioncat:
> As for Rickman...well, yes, he adds something doesn't he? But
> really, do any of the movie characters match the book characters? 


I think the producers did a damn fine job casting the HP movies,
regardless of what I think of the hack job they did on particular
characters (idiot!Ron, ZenaWarriorPrincess!Hermione).  The only one I
wasn't happy with was Dumbledore, as neither Richard Harris (too old
and feeble-seeming) and Michael Gambon (spaced out hippie) fit my
conception of the role; however Ian McKellar was already cast as
Gandalf or he would have been perfect.

My qualms with Rickman are that he's too old and too heavy - on the
other hand it gets across the idea of Snape's menace rather well.

And not enough can be said about the three actors (Richard
cant-remember-his-name, Fiona Shaw and Harry Melling) who play the
Dursleys.  Can there be three more thankless roles in all of British
cinema?  I doubt it yet they're superb.  And Jason Isaacs is a
perfect Lucius Malfoy.

Magda (let's hear it for British actors!)

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