Harry Potter blather
1. If you have to keep reassuring your kid that the movie isn't real, he might be too young to be there. (Kid's apparent age: 5.)
2. If you are in your late 30s, and you are too stupid to follow the movie, do not ask your young child to explain it to you. You are old enough to know better. Hell, your child knows better; he was clearly trying to keep his voice down and was upset you were bothering him every few minutes to ask who the characters were and what they were doing.
3. In the book, my brain draws out the scene where Cedric dies, for some reason. Like I'm reading in slow motion. I know it's happening fast, that it's just a moment, this violent, silent, bloodless death, but my mind won't let it be that fast. In the movie...it's fast. If you blink, you will miss it.
4. The guy who plays Amos Diggory does the most eeriely realistic portrayal I've ever seen in a movie of a parent losing a child. It reminded me unpleasantly of a friend of mine whose daughter died a few years ago, and how she reacted to that loss. It makes me wonder if someone - the actor, the director, someone - had either gone through that or seen someone who has actually lost a child, up close and personal. I mean, I'm sure different people react differently, but.
5. How much did I love Snape snapping up his sleeves before shoving Harry and Ron in the head? THIS MUCH.
6. Moaning Myrtle, you know you looked. I would have, in your translucent shoes.
7. Am I allowed to ROWR at Daniel Radcliffe yet? Because damn.
8. And a bonus:
Dear HG/SS Fandom:
Shipper icons made from screencaps of the movies are not CUTE or SWEET. They are FUCKING CREEPY.
Love, Laura JV.
2. If you are in your late 30s, and you are too stupid to follow the movie, do not ask your young child to explain it to you. You are old enough to know better. Hell, your child knows better; he was clearly trying to keep his voice down and was upset you were bothering him every few minutes to ask who the characters were and what they were doing.
3. In the book, my brain draws out the scene where Cedric dies, for some reason. Like I'm reading in slow motion. I know it's happening fast, that it's just a moment, this violent, silent, bloodless death, but my mind won't let it be that fast. In the movie...it's fast. If you blink, you will miss it.
4. The guy who plays Amos Diggory does the most eeriely realistic portrayal I've ever seen in a movie of a parent losing a child. It reminded me unpleasantly of a friend of mine whose daughter died a few years ago, and how she reacted to that loss. It makes me wonder if someone - the actor, the director, someone - had either gone through that or seen someone who has actually lost a child, up close and personal. I mean, I'm sure different people react differently, but.
5. How much did I love Snape snapping up his sleeves before shoving Harry and Ron in the head? THIS MUCH.
6. Moaning Myrtle, you know you looked. I would have, in your translucent shoes.
7. Am I allowed to ROWR at Daniel Radcliffe yet? Because damn.
8. And a bonus:
Dear HG/SS Fandom:
Shipper icons made from screencaps of the movies are not CUTE or SWEET. They are FUCKING CREEPY.
Love, Laura JV.