this heart is where you truly live

keladryb and my brother and I went to see PoA today. Fourth viewing for me. I was surprised at how many people were there... far more than the last two times I went, and it was the middle of the day.

I tried harder to notice small details this time. There are some cool ones in the Leaky Cauldron scene, like when the waiter picks up a bottle with a rag, the bottle vanishes in a sleight-of-hand trick, and he uses the rag to finish wiping up the table. Cuaron is very good with that -- making magic a casual part of life. I also saw for myself what some had reported, that during one of the reaction shots in the Care of Magical Creatures scene, Ron and Hermione are not the only ones who grab onto each other -- Seamus and Dean do as well.

Afterwards, we talked about the movie as fanfic, interpreting and adding to canon. keladryb made the connection that Lupin listens to decades-old music with a phonograph, Snape uses decades-old technology for his slideshow... it suggests that there was some contact with the Muggle world in the recent past, which was cut off, perhaps in a Grindelwald-related way. Not canon, but an interesting take, one you might expect from fic.

Another odd little thing is that while in the book, every moment after the Shrieking Shack is well accounted for, the movie leaves a long gap after Sirius, Ron, Harry, and Hermione come out of the tunnel, and before Peter and Remus do. What does Cuaron imagine they're doing down there? If this were canon, that'd be a fic.

We also discussed the possibility that some of the Shrieking Shack dialogue was improvised, which would explain why none of it is word-for-word canon. And agreed that we really hope there'll be director's commentary on the DVD.

Randomly: As they're walking away from Buckbeak, Sirius and Hermione are briefly holding hands.

this heart is where you truly live

keladryb and my brother and I went to see PoA today. Fourth viewing for me. I was surprised at how many people were there... far more than the last two times I went, and it was the middle of the day.

I tried harder to notice small details this time. There are some cool ones in the Leaky Cauldron scene, like when the waiter picks up a bottle with a rag, the bottle vanishes in a sleight-of-hand trick, and he uses the rag to finish wiping up the table. Cuaron is very good with that -- making magic a casual part of life. I also saw for myself what some had reported, that during one of the reaction shots in the Care of Magical Creatures scene, Ron and Hermione are not the only ones who grab onto each other -- Seamus and Dean do as well.

Afterwards, we talked about the movie as fanfic, interpreting and adding to canon. keladryb made the connection that Lupin listens to decades-old music with a phonograph, Snape uses decades-old technology for his slideshow... it suggests that there was some contact with the Muggle world in the recent past, which was cut off, perhaps in a Grindelwald-related way. Not canon, but an interesting take, one you might expect from fic.

Another odd little thing is that while in the book, every moment after the Shrieking Shack is well accounted for, the movie leaves a long gap after Sirius, Ron, Harry, and Hermione come out of the tunnel, and before Peter and Remus do. What does Cuaron imagine they're doing down there? If this were canon, that'd be a fic.

We also discussed the possibility that some of the Shrieking Shack dialogue was improvised, which would explain why none of it is word-for-word canon. And agreed that we really hope there'll be director's commentary on the DVD.

Randomly: As they're walking away from Buckbeak, Sirius and Hermione are briefly holding hands.