Perhaps Mike Newell was trying too hard to be like Alfonso Cuarón....
You're a bloody puppet! You're a wee little puppet man!
Spike ,'Smile Time'
Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Steph L. - Jan 17, 2006 2:04:33 pm PST #9897 of 10002
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
DavidS - Jan 17, 2006 2:30:15 pm PST #9898 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That scene didn't bug me.
Except with Matt's first point where you wondered how to keep the skankier ghosts at bay.
§ ita § - Jan 17, 2006 2:43:18 pm PST #9899 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What about the single sex schools (not sure why that's whitefonted) don't you understand, Debet?
DebetEsse - Jan 17, 2006 2:49:28 pm PST #9900 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Why they decided to do that. It makes no sense to have a single-sex school if its the only (or even the premiere) wizarding school in the country.
And I want there to be a justification if they're going to change something from the books. There are valid reasons to change some things (leaving out the whole Fleur's part Veela thing, for example), but I fail to see the reason for that.
§ ita § - Jan 17, 2006 2:53:21 pm PST #9901 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Single sex schools are so common in the UK, though. I'm sure they didn't give it a second thought.
They weren't single sex in the books? I can never remember this stuff.
Jessica - Jan 17, 2006 2:58:13 pm PST #9902 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
They weren't single-sex in the book, no.
I think they were changed in the movie for the visual appeal, nsm for the logic.
Mr. Broom - Jan 17, 2006 4:30:11 pm PST #9903 of 10002
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
And for contrast. Highlights the differences between the two schools in a very movie-friendly way, and without harming the story, which is a nice bonus.
Trudy Booth - Jan 17, 2006 5:06:54 pm PST #9904 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I was a little squicked about the actress being IRL so much older than Radcliffe, but then when I thought about it, IRL she wasn't even in the room so I got over it. In movie land she's his age (albeit dead for a while).
Tom Scola - Jan 18, 2006 8:07:06 am PST #9905 of 10002
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Vampire news:
You haven't heard of the vampire film Moonshine yet, but you will. The film premieres at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, which starts Thursday in Park City, Utah, and it has a back story to make every aspiring filmmaker green with envy.
Roger Ingraham, the film's director, dropped out of high school, wrote a script and, at age 19, shot Moonshine using several dozen volunteer actors and crew. Total price: $9,200, including the cost of a Panasonic camera, a PowerBook G4 and website hosting.
According to an employee of the UltraStar cinema chain by way of Shacknews.com, a computer faux pas caused about 5,500 extra copies of the BloodRayne film to be created and distributed to theaters that didn’t even want to show it.
Kate P. - Jan 18, 2006 8:07:24 am PST #9906 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
They weren't single-sex in the book, no.
I thought they were. I mean, I trust you (or I'm too lazy to look it up--take your pick!), but I remember having that impression of the schools long before seeing the movie, so it seems like a not-entirely-unsupported change, to me.
I don't know why the bathtub scene didn't squick me, but I think Trudy's point (they didn't film the scene together) probably had something to do with it.