Ben ,'The Killer In Me'
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That's because it was never in the books. At JK Rowling's website, she has a section called Extra Stuff, and there's random things there that got cut, never made it, etc. Dean's story is there. And if you see it in the Sun, it's so.
Sorry about no direct link... it's a popup kind of website.
Isn't Angelina Johnson (on the Gryffindor team) black, too? I think she is in the movies, and I'm pretty sure Rowling mentions her hair being cornrowed at one point in the books. She was Fred's date to the Yule Ball in Gof, IIRC.
I'm wondering if they cast that new Gryffindor student in PoA as a semi-replacement for the actor who played Dean. Dean was still there (at least he was in the first-night-back scene with the joke candy) but he got hardly any lines at all. Actually, the directors have been pretty inconsistent with the class size throughout all the films. There are only eight Gryffindors in Harry's year (Dean, Seamus, Neville, Ron, Harry, Hermione, Lavender, and Parvati), but the films fill up the classes with a few dozen Gryffindors onscreen.
Of course, Ray kicked my crippled ass up and down the street because a lot of the things were relatable...including some eerie synchronicity with a conversation with Hec.And Bunk Moreland was in it(Y'all might be able to look him up as "Wendell Pierce")
Anyway, I watched Kingdom of Heaven for the second time yesterday.
I want to do that too. The first time, just last week, I enjoyed myself far too much and laughed the whole time up until the last ten-twenty minutes. (I don't think I was the right audience for this movie in the theatre.) It would be interesting to see if I enjoyed it more because of the company than the movie itself.
Hi, Ailleann!
Kingdom of Heaven: I thought she cut off her hair in her shame at making Guy king. So it was all her fault. Except it wasn't. (Except in real life, apparently, it was. But not in the movie.) Anyway. The line you quoted still makes little sense to me. I guess she meant she'd be faithful sexually if he'd be faithful to her brother's wishes for the kingdom, but he was a bigger cheater than her.
I thought Orlando just looked shell-shocked throughout the whole thing, which may have been intentional.
Which one was the guy with the BBoC factor? The main Saracen guy who wasn't Saladin? Because he was pretty pretty, I thought.
The Hospitaler.
That looks wrong -- is it two ts?
Hospittaler?
Oh, heck.
The Knight of St. John.
Monty Python star John Cleese is writing the next feature film for Aardman Animations, the makers of Wallace and Gromit have announced.
Aardman co-founder Peter Lord said the Fawlty Towers actor was currently writing the "pre-historic comedy".
Voting yup on the Thewlis BBoC thing. I've been back-stalking his career, through Prime Suspect, Dragonheart (sheesh), Total Eclipse, Restoration, Dinotopia (sheesh again), Seven Years in Tibet, etc. The man's mesmeric onscreen.
Up this weekend from Netflix: Bridges of Madison County (by request--not my request), Mystic River, which we missed in the theatre, and Bad Boys II, ditto. We're hip-deep in house stuff, so we won't have time to make a theatre-showing of Kingdom of Heaven this weekend. Maybe next.
Ah, Lehane. Such a master of Feel-Good entertainment. But you'll like MR, in a tormented sort of way.
I have embarrassing love for Thewlis's performance in "Besieged". I don't know if it's objectively a "good" film--when I dwell on it, the way it deals with political, racial & gender issues makes me deeply uncomfortable, and God knows it has the usual Bertolucci ticks that drive me batty. But when I'm watching it, I don't really care about all that. I soak in the visual and the music, the way camera caresses Thandie Newton's face, and most of all, in Thewlis' raw performance, all that awkward desperation and longing, and I just swoooooon. Like a 15 year-old girl. Is he a misguided creepy stalker? Probably. But I still cry when I see the piano being lifted out of the apartment.
I watched "Besieged" almost immediately after "Naked" (where Thewlis plays a charismatic, profane and amoral misanthrope), and my GOD, the dude has range.