First half is shamefully old, but I've finally completed a two-part Goblet of Fire movie recap at my lj, if anyone's interested. Part One and Part Two.
I wasn't sure whether to comment here or at your original post. Oh, well, here goes.
/LUDO BAGMAN WAS AN INTEGRAL PART OF CANON/
And yet after GOF, he never shows up again. I wonder if the filmmakers of POA would've bothered to include Crookshanks if they'd known that he was going to lose all relevance and ultimately disappear after POA.
/I guess because there’s no SPEW/
Yeah, that was another omission that annoyed fans, but seriously, it's another plot thread that goes nowhere. And they cut Winky, and Dobby only shows up again in the DH movie, so what would've been the point of including SPEW?
/Fred and George really are two of the most fanonised characters in these films/
I never realized that, but it's true. Probably because all of the awful things that they do in the books are omitted: no choking Dudley, no Montague, no bullying of Ron, no hissing at first-years, etc.
/He’s picked the whole ‘Lucius is a shitty dad’ thing (this time poking Draco in the stomach with his cane for boasting about sitting in the Minister’s box) and dammit he’s sticking to it/
*snorts* Some fans have blamed Jason Isaacs for the large amount of Abusive!Lucius in fanfiction, but honestly, I think that the idea came before the movies.
/there’s the beginning of the game and a shot of Krum, then a cut to the aftermath/
Yeah, they didn't even bother to show the match itself. It just ended very abruptly as soon as it began. In fact, I wonder if the overly long dragon chase in the first task was supposed to make up for it or not.
/Movie!R/Hr is not strong, especially compared to H/Hr/
Honestly, I think that a large part of that is Steve Kloves. He really comes off like a H/Hr shipper and it shows. In the HBP movie, Dumbledore just had to say that he noticed Harry spending a lot of time with Hermione and then by the end of the movie, when Harry is talking about the RAB locket, he and Hermione are sitting close together while Ron is conspicuously sitting away as if he's a bystander eavesdropping on their conversation.
I know that Ron was increasingly dumbed down and shut out more and more in the books themselves as the series went on, but Kloves definitely didn't help matters.
/There’s a charming shot of the ‘lovely ladies’/
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if someone involved in the production and writing had a musical theatre background. The contrast between Durmstrang's entrance and Beauxbatons' reminds me of opera, with each character having their own leitmotif. I think the reason why they're portrayed as single-sex schools is to simplify and further emphasize their leitmotifs: Beauxbatons is light and airy, while Durmstrang is thunderous and intense.
/I liked an interview I saw with the actress playing Fleur, where she was saying how the character was pretty much the British stereotype of a French girl/
The funny thing is that I've seen Clemence Poesy in interviews too and learned that she can speak English very well with a much lighter accent, which means that the accent that she had in the film was deliberately stereotypical.
/I love how much Michael Gambon’s yelling offended fandom as a whole/
Well, that and grabbing Harry like a maniac. I think that's one of the reasons why many fans preferred Richard Harris.
/A terrifying monster vaguely resembling the terrifying monster Gary Oldman appears/
Yeah, if this was all they could do with Sirius, they might as well have cut him out.
/Moody’s line about Draco’s hair being greasy seems to be several films out of date/
I noticed that too! I was thinking, "Wait, what are you talking about? He ditched his slicked back hair in the third film."
/Apparently wizards don’t have to! So glad JKR shared that with us/
*groans* WHY. Why did anyone feel the need to ask that? Why did she feel the need to answer that? WHY?
/Ron appears to have adopted a manservant/
Yes, what exactly was the point of Nigel?
/the boys hate dancing, the girls are thrilled/
Just like the girls are the only ones who excitedly approach the cauldron of Love Potion in the HBP movie. -_-
/girls only love guys who ignore them/
Unless you're James Potter, who bullies his future wife's supposed 'best friend' right in front of her.
/Barty Crouch Sr. was ‘never whole again after losing his family/
Both Crouches were flattened here. Barty Crouch Jr. was always crazy and Barty Crouch Sr. was just a poor, normal father who was horrified by his son.
/your classic dumb blonde, he takes off his Death Eater mask before role call/
And lets his hair hang loose (gee, I wonder who the Death Eater with the long blond hair is?).
/calls Harry a ‘handsome boy’ (so I guess there was a precursor to the awkward hug in DH….?)/
Actually, that was Cedric. Or did he call Harry handsome too? Yeah, I don't know what they were trying to do with Voldemort. First, he randomly nudges Cedric's face with his foot and remarks that he's handsome here, and then he randomly hugs Draco in DH.
/Why is Dumbledore showing Harry’s arm off like a dope tatt?/
I thought that was weird too: why is Dumbledore suddenly grabbing Harry's arm and brandishing it to Barty? I don't know why Dumbledore is so grabby in this movie.
/Heh, I kind of love the alternate canon that Crouch Jr. is still alive/
And so is Peter. The DH movie didn't include the silver hand scene, so as far as the audience is concerned, Peter just vanished along with Barty. And Crookshanks.
All in all, I honestly cannot rewatch this film. I'd rather watch something that has the mystery and unraveling of mystery written well, like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
Extremely late here, but as an amateur artist and theatre buff, I have to say I disliked Hermione’s pink dress not because it’s ‘girly,’ or because it’s ‘non-canon,’ but because it clashed horribly with Krum’s bright red uniform. Periwinkle blue would have made a much prettier picture of our homecoming princess dancing with her sports hero. The costumier who designed Hermione’s dress and the costumier who designed the Durmstrang uniforms obviously did not communicate.
In-universe, of course, Hermione would have bought her dress in advance without knowing what her partner would wear, nor—being Hermione—would she have cared. But costume designers are supposed to think about what the entire picture looks like.
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Date: 2019-03-25 08:44 pm (UTC)/LUDO BAGMAN WAS AN INTEGRAL PART OF CANON/
And yet after GOF, he never shows up again. I wonder if the filmmakers of POA would've bothered to include Crookshanks if they'd known that he was going to lose all relevance and ultimately disappear after POA.
/I guess because there’s no SPEW/
Yeah, that was another omission that annoyed fans, but seriously, it's another plot thread that goes nowhere. And they cut Winky, and Dobby only shows up again in the DH movie, so what would've been the point of including SPEW?
/Fred and George really are two of the most fanonised characters in these films/
I never realized that, but it's true. Probably because all of the awful things that they do in the books are omitted: no choking Dudley, no Montague, no bullying of Ron, no hissing at first-years, etc.
/He’s picked the whole ‘Lucius is a shitty dad’ thing (this time poking Draco in the stomach with his cane for boasting about sitting in the Minister’s box) and dammit he’s sticking to it/
*snorts* Some fans have blamed Jason Isaacs for the large amount of Abusive!Lucius in fanfiction, but honestly, I think that the idea came before the movies.
/there’s the beginning of the game and a shot of Krum, then a cut to the aftermath/
Yeah, they didn't even bother to show the match itself. It just ended very abruptly as soon as it began. In fact, I wonder if the overly long dragon chase in the first task was supposed to make up for it or not.
/Movie!R/Hr is not strong, especially compared to H/Hr/
Honestly, I think that a large part of that is Steve Kloves. He really comes off like a H/Hr shipper and it shows. In the HBP movie, Dumbledore just had to say that he noticed Harry spending a lot of time with Hermione and then by the end of the movie, when Harry is talking about the RAB locket, he and Hermione are sitting close together while Ron is conspicuously sitting away as if he's a bystander eavesdropping on their conversation.
I know that Ron was increasingly dumbed down and shut out more and more in the books themselves as the series went on, but Kloves definitely didn't help matters.
/There’s a charming shot of the ‘lovely ladies’/
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if someone involved in the production and writing had a musical theatre background. The contrast between Durmstrang's entrance and Beauxbatons' reminds me of opera, with each character having their own leitmotif. I think the reason why they're portrayed as single-sex schools is to simplify and further emphasize their leitmotifs: Beauxbatons is light and airy, while Durmstrang is thunderous and intense.
/I liked an interview I saw with the actress playing Fleur, where she was saying how the character was pretty much the British stereotype of a French girl/
The funny thing is that I've seen Clemence Poesy in interviews too and learned that she can speak English very well with a much lighter accent, which means that the accent that she had in the film was deliberately stereotypical.
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Date: 2019-03-25 08:47 pm (UTC)Yes, he was a great choice for the role. :)
/I love how much Michael Gambon’s yelling offended fandom as a whole/
Well, that and grabbing Harry like a maniac. I think that's one of the reasons why many fans preferred Richard Harris.
/A terrifying monster vaguely resembling the terrifying monster Gary Oldman appears/
Yeah, if this was all they could do with Sirius, they might as well have cut him out.
/Moody’s line about Draco’s hair being greasy seems to be several films out of date/
I noticed that too! I was thinking, "Wait, what are you talking about? He ditched his slicked back hair in the third film."
/Apparently wizards don’t have to! So glad JKR shared that with us/
*groans* WHY. Why did anyone feel the need to ask that? Why did she feel the need to answer that? WHY?
/Ron appears to have adopted a manservant/
Yes, what exactly was the point of Nigel?
/the boys hate dancing, the girls are thrilled/
Just like the girls are the only ones who excitedly approach the cauldron of Love Potion in the HBP movie. -_-
/girls only love guys who ignore them/
Unless you're James Potter, who bullies his future wife's supposed 'best friend' right in front of her.
/Barty Crouch Sr. was ‘never whole again after losing his family/
Both Crouches were flattened here. Barty Crouch Jr. was always crazy and Barty Crouch Sr. was just a poor, normal father who was horrified by his son.
/your classic dumb blonde, he takes off his Death Eater mask before role call/
And lets his hair hang loose (gee, I wonder who the Death Eater with the long blond hair is?).
/calls Harry a ‘handsome boy’ (so I guess there was a precursor to the awkward hug in DH….?)/
Actually, that was Cedric. Or did he call Harry handsome too? Yeah, I don't know what they were trying to do with Voldemort. First, he randomly nudges Cedric's face with his foot and remarks that he's handsome here, and then he randomly hugs Draco in DH.
/Why is Dumbledore showing Harry’s arm off like a dope tatt?/
I thought that was weird too: why is Dumbledore suddenly grabbing Harry's arm and brandishing it to Barty? I don't know why Dumbledore is so grabby in this movie.
/Heh, I kind of love the alternate canon that Crouch Jr. is still alive/
And so is Peter. The DH movie didn't include the silver hand scene, so as far as the audience is concerned, Peter just vanished along with Barty. And Crookshanks.
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Date: 2019-04-27 10:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2020-03-15 12:06 am (UTC)In-universe, of course, Hermione would have bought her dress in advance without knowing what her partner would wear, nor—being Hermione—would she have cared. But costume designers are supposed to think about what the entire picture looks like.
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