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spokeSo. Time for further, and hopefully more coherent, thoughts on PoA!
Things I missed during the movie:
Neville and Ginny were meant to be in that box on the train.
The Quiditch!
There was supposed to be more Snape, dammit. I wanted to see him throwing the mother-of-all POTTER! fits. And scaring the heck out of Fudge. <.< Okay, so that was also because I don't like Fudge and therefore want him to be scared, but still! I wanted my Snape-fit, darnit!
Things I loved:
The sheer beauty of both the Time-Turner and the Marauder's Map, which makes me wish I could get my hands on them.
The... I don't know, it was just pretty. All the dark and light, the way things felt real. Before, it was kind of distant, but this. The dirt and mud and the leaves rustling when people went through them, somehow made it feel like it's not entirely another world, but somewhere I could just as easily be. Which, considering the Wizarding World is supposed to be next-door-but-invisible, was really cool.
I liked that Hedwig was used to show the transition from fall to winter, the way she had been before. It felt nice, like a nod to the last director or something?
The Whomping Willow, which this time actually looked like a willow. Not just a tree to whom that name had been assigned. I mean that was really a willow, a monster-willow, but. ^^ Trees! That thin, whippy - it looked like steroid-using!willow or something. I love that tree, can you tell?
Remus and Sirius, who for some reason I was afraid would look too ...pretty. They're supposed to look scruffy and disreputable, and while Remus was a bit too smooth-looking (and let's not touch the cliche of the thin mustache) they did feel. I don't know, right? Remus and Harry on the bridge, that was a nice bit of foreshadowing with Remus being self-depreciating. Little bit of a set up for:
OMG. The Shrieking Shack. I will probably say this until people are sick of hearing, but that freaked me out, simply for this. The first time I read the book, I was scared for the Trio. You know that moment of 'Oh shit. He's in league with him! They're both evil!' << Where I'd have been running in panic except I was reading and therefore had to remain glued to the book?
After that first time, it's hard to feel scared. Or concerned, unless I'm really really focusing. I know thye're not evil, I know the literal rat-bastard is in the room and will shortly be revealed and that everyone is comparatively 'safe'.
This. For a moment, I was freaking out again. Then my brain catches up with me, reminding me of Peter - but oh. This is the Remus and Sirius that Harry and Ron and Hermione were seeing. Even without the lines being quite right, watching those two, the subtle interplay and of looks - Sirius saying he did he was waiting and Remus with that caving-look, that's so easy to interpret as 'Oh man - guilt- okay, go ahead and kill them'.
Freaked. Me. Out.
Possibly more thoughts, but I have suddenly realized I'm running insanely late on getting ready for work. x.x;
Things I missed during the movie:
Neville and Ginny were meant to be in that box on the train.
The Quiditch!
There was supposed to be more Snape, dammit. I wanted to see him throwing the mother-of-all POTTER! fits. And scaring the heck out of Fudge. <.< Okay, so that was also because I don't like Fudge and therefore want him to be scared, but still! I wanted my Snape-fit, darnit!
Things I loved:
The sheer beauty of both the Time-Turner and the Marauder's Map, which makes me wish I could get my hands on them.
The... I don't know, it was just pretty. All the dark and light, the way things felt real. Before, it was kind of distant, but this. The dirt and mud and the leaves rustling when people went through them, somehow made it feel like it's not entirely another world, but somewhere I could just as easily be. Which, considering the Wizarding World is supposed to be next-door-but-invisible, was really cool.
I liked that Hedwig was used to show the transition from fall to winter, the way she had been before. It felt nice, like a nod to the last director or something?
The Whomping Willow, which this time actually looked like a willow. Not just a tree to whom that name had been assigned. I mean that was really a willow, a monster-willow, but. ^^ Trees! That thin, whippy - it looked like steroid-using!willow or something. I love that tree, can you tell?
Remus and Sirius, who for some reason I was afraid would look too ...pretty. They're supposed to look scruffy and disreputable, and while Remus was a bit too smooth-looking (and let's not touch the cliche of the thin mustache) they did feel. I don't know, right? Remus and Harry on the bridge, that was a nice bit of foreshadowing with Remus being self-depreciating. Little bit of a set up for:
OMG. The Shrieking Shack. I will probably say this until people are sick of hearing, but that freaked me out, simply for this. The first time I read the book, I was scared for the Trio. You know that moment of 'Oh shit. He's in league with him! They're both evil!' << Where I'd have been running in panic except I was reading and therefore had to remain glued to the book?
After that first time, it's hard to feel scared. Or concerned, unless I'm really really focusing. I know thye're not evil, I know the literal rat-bastard is in the room and will shortly be revealed and that everyone is comparatively 'safe'.
This. For a moment, I was freaking out again. Then my brain catches up with me, reminding me of Peter - but oh. This is the Remus and Sirius that Harry and Ron and Hermione were seeing. Even without the lines being quite right, watching those two, the subtle interplay and of looks - Sirius saying he did he was waiting and Remus with that caving-look, that's so easy to interpret as 'Oh man - guilt- okay, go ahead and kill them'.
Freaked. Me. Out.
Possibly more thoughts, but I have suddenly realized I'm running insanely late on getting ready for work. x.x;
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Date: 2004-06-09 04:30 pm (UTC)Oh! And someone on that list of movie responses you made, referred to it as CliffNotes Harry Potter. I like this description! Dark, glossy, preeetty CliffNotes. :)~