[the_old_crowd] Some thoughts on PoA Film Reviews so far....

[Monika Huebner]

Paul Kippes <kippesp at ...> wrote:

>I think a special on E! (thank you Tivo!) indicated that the actors
>of POA had a much easier time than the Star Wars actors. 
>Specifically, in POA, they used a real horse for the hippogriff and
>then worked magic to make the hippogriff. 

This is something that was explained in the special about Gollum on
the extended edition of "The Two Towers" as well: the actors did a
much better job when they were interacting with Andy Serkis and didn't
have to imagine a character that wasn't on the set. So they did all
the scenes with Serkis and replaced him with the cgi character later.
I was fairly sure they must have used a horse for the Buckbeak scenes
in PoA, at least for the riding scenes. Most of the rest could have
been made using a puppet IMO.

Monika