My Limit-Knowing, Let Me Show You It

[vulgarweed]

I didn't sign up for Yuletide this year. It was a combination of factors: the delayed signup process left a short time to write. And I stalked the requested-fandoms summary and saw that no one had requested the fandoms I really wanted to write and no one had offered the fandoms I really wanted to ask for.

Plus, y'know. NaNoWriMo. And 1992 Drawer Novel From Hell. And GOE. And jobhunting. I'm sad because I really enjoyed the last two years I did it, but sometimes you just gotta sit a dance out.


I DID goof off enough to go see HP & DH with divinetailor and family last night, though.




1. I liked Hedwig's death much better in the film than in the book.

2. Of all the instantly-recognizable voices I expected to hear in a Harry Potter movie, Nick Cave's was not high up on the list. WTF?

3. I'm so in love with the animated sequence used for the Three Brothers story that part of me wishes they'd done the whole damn thing like that. ALL the movies.

4. Anybody see that glimpse of Gellert Grindelwald in the window in the rain and get a flashback to Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Steerpike in Gormenghast?

5. Anybody else think Xenophilus Lovegood was kind of shockingly hot?



Anyway, so...back to work!

Comments

[notlefthanded.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad somebody on my flist is finally posting about this. Though obviously I haven't made time to do it yet, so. :)

1-3. Yes.

4. No, but this reminded me to IMDB and see whether I correctly recognized him from Sweeney Todd. Which I did, so go me. :)

5. Yes, but not as much as that head Snatcher. Damn.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised by the quietness about it too. Where is everybody? Sure didn't look like a dead fandom at the theater last night!

[catbirdgirl.livejournal.com]

so how is divinetailor?

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Very good! Though a little tired, teaching full-time. Married, stepparent of two, adoptee of new kitten.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_silverfox/]

3. I'm so in love with the animated sequence used for the Three Brothers story that part of me wishes they'd done the whole damn thing like that. ALL the movies.

Haven't seen it yet, but animation could have fixed the problem of actors growing up and would have suited a magical world well ...


I couldn't resist signing up for Yuletide after all. One month time and I don't have my assignment yet. What was I thinking!

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

I still don't see why some people found it weird that the actors grew up - they grow up in the books, after all, and the changes seemed to map out to that OK. To my eyes they look like 11-year-olds in movie 1, 14-year-olds in movie 4, 16-year-olds in movie 6, etc., just like they're supposed to.


(would have been far weirder if they didn't!)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_silverfox/]

11-year olds in movie one, yes, but to me they looked too old by the fourth one ... Not so much the main trio, but some of the others.

[drusillas-rain.livejournal.com]

I totally missed the Nick Cave song *facepalm*

And I'm fully expecting a new version of the HP movies in a few years - maybe an animated or stop-motion Tim Burton-type this time?

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

It's the one that Harry and Hermione dance to; it's "O Children" from 'Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus.' I think it worked fairly well in the scene; it just yanked me out of the story for a moment because of the Unexpected Fandom Collision factor.


I would LOVE a really good animated version, or a graphic novel series with a really striking style.

That animated sequence in this movie reminded me both of SE Asian shadow puppet theater, and also a performance I saw last year of excerpts from Swan Lake with Redmoon Theater doing projected-paper animations and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra playing, which just slayed me.

[gokuma.livejournal.com]

I'm so in love with the animated sequence used for the Three Brothers story that part of me wishes they'd done the whole damn thing like that. ALL the movies.

I liked it too. I'd love to see all the Beedle stories animated like that...

[fyrdrakken]

1) Yes
2) I saw a friend tweeting about that later -- I didn't recognize his voice at all, don't know when the song was even played. Then again, I only know two of his songs, and one's a cover.
3) Catching HBP on cable last night and noting the similarities in the closing credits, I had Mom check on the director's name because I thought it might be the same guy.
4) Yes ETA -- I wanted to IMDB the movie because of a few actors I was sure I recognized but didn't know from where, and Grindelwald was the other one. The one who Harry Polyjuiced himself into to infiltrate the Ministry was the biggest one, and then Mom mentioned he'd been in The Tudors and I went, yeah, that's it and forgot the IMDB thing.
5) No

[mybrokenlocket.livejournal.com]

I saw DH for the first time a few nights ago, and now I'm looking through my friends list to see who posted about it. All I have to add is that I was also shocked by Xenophilius Lovegood's hotness.