FANTASY casting...

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 170550

Bart: 
Please read the next paragraph, CAREFULLY, before responding. Thanks!

The list elves have pre-approved this topic. However, please, please, please don't
answer this in any context with any real world Harry Potter movie. The purpose of
this exercise is to get more insight into the characters of the books.

Here is the set-up (note the topic is FANTASY casting): A new computerized filmaking
technique has been discovered. You can take any character played by any actor in
film or television (including cartoons) in history, and it will convert that character
into a character for the new movie, being played more or less the same way. The 
character can be converted from one age to another, or even changed in appearance
(so you could theoretically have a 5 year old Shirley Temple playing Mrs. Figg; 
note how many characters Tom Hanks played in Polar Express even using RW technology).
Now, it has been announced that YOU are going to be helping with the casting of 
a special Harry Potter maxi-series, which will cover all 6 (eventually 7) books,
in detail. 

Name performances by actors that you would use for various parts. If you have trouble
remembering who an actor is and what they have been in, the Internet Movie Database
(http://www.imdb.com) is an excellent source. 

Here are a few examples: 
Professor Snape: I think one of the reasons a lot of people thought he was a vampire
is because Christopher Lee's performances as Dracula in the Hammer Dracula films
would be so perfect for him. 

Sirius Black: Errol Flynn; in particular, his performance in Captain Blood (as a
doctor who, by circumstances, was forced into becoming a pirate). 

Filch: I think Don Knotts' performance as Deputy Barney Fife on the old Andy
Griffith Show is absolutely perfect. Too bad Filch never says, "We'll nip
it in the bud! Nip it in the bud!"

Mrs. Figg: not a lot to go on, but I would take Hermione Gingold; specifically her
performance in Gigi. 

Bart