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Post by starsea on Mar 5, 2009 12:38:26 GMT -5
Re: Oldman and Thewlis - I thought they and Rickman were ten years too old for the parts, but they still did it really well. You bring up a good point, chocolatepot. As brilliant as Rickman is, he's also sixty, and the men playing Sirius and Remus need to look as if they were his classmates at school. As it is, both Oldman and Thewlis were in their forties when they starred in PoA, so the directors went as young as they dared, probably.
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Post by mo on Mar 5, 2009 17:47:22 GMT -5
They made all the Marauders too old...look at how old James and Lily look in their brief moments on screen. The whole lot of them look to be 10 years older than they are supposed to be. They could just put "1950" instead of "1960" on the Potters' graves, and nobody who hadn't read the books would bat an eye. Of course, that pretty much changes the whole timeline of the first war, the tragedy of Harry's very young parents, etc, etc.....
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Post by starsea on Mar 10, 2009 18:56:41 GMT -5
They made all the Marauders too old...look at how old James and Lily look in their brief moments on screen. The whole lot of them look to be 10 years older than they are supposed to be. I agree, but I suspect that was deliberate. They wanted Harry's parents to be like the parents of the kids watching the movie (I know, very stereotypical). It also decreases the poignancy of Harry seeing his parents in DH and being almost the same age as them when THEY died, along with the idea that he lives beyond them.
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Post by siriusgirl on Jun 29, 2010 13:42:10 GMT -5
In POA anotehr thing that was annoying, the talking shrunken heads. What's up with that?
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Post by queenie on Jul 3, 2010 15:39:43 GMT -5
It's what I frequently said, before Order of the Phoenix came out. Prisoner of Azkaban was the best movie, but the worst adaptation. There were a ton of things thrown in for style, flair, and to expand the world a little (the frog choir comes to mind, as does the wizard reading 'A Brief History of Time' in the Leaky Cauldron).
It made for a very enjoyable moviegoing experience, even if, yes, they did play havoc with the image of the Patronus, and the backstory of the Marauders. And even if, yes, the more I think about the shrunken heads the more out-of-place they are (Necromancy? unless you take them to be like portraits, which talk and retain a likeness of the people in them.)
But then Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince came out and I had no more need to worry about that distinction. Although both movies did have their bad moments as well as their downright glorious ones.
Also, I voted for 'Other,' in this case 'Half-Blood Prince.'
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Post by siriusgirl on Jul 5, 2010 9:06:51 GMT -5
It was like something that seemed more Mexican into a British movie, just unnecessary. It also bugged me that they had kids not allowed in Three Broomsticks, that's way too North American! In the series, that's where all the kids go!
Too bad, POA probably among my favourites of the books, but they messed up the movie.
OOTP was a vast improvement on GOF. Goblet of Fire was good but it missed a lot by only having the Triwizard tournament as the focus, and removing Dobby and Winky, and Crouch and his son's back story. OOTP kept more of the other stories in it. Half Blood Prince suffered from the same thing to me as GOF, and then they added that attack on the Burrow out of nowhere that really didn't seem necessary.
And the way Michael Gambon said Beauxbatons makes me cringe! Horribly anglicizing it!
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Post by MWPP on Sept 14, 2010 23:09:30 GMT -5
I agree! If it hadn't already been said a couple times by other characters they might have gotten away with it. As it is, with it having been said correctly already, the director should have re-shot the scene, or dubbed in the right pronunciation. It was stupid that that was left in.
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Post by siriusgirl on Sept 15, 2010 10:11:03 GMT -5
Not just that but Dumbledore is an intelligent man and gifted multilinguist, he speaks Mermish, Parseltongue, etc. Surely he speaks better French than that!
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