Harry Potter and the Bloody Good Casting
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angelophileApparently a new Harry Potter film is out today.
Those that know me well enough know that I used to harbor an almost pathological hatred of the mere mention of Harry Potter. I'm better now, but I'm still not a fan. I admit, it's simply down to so many people telling me I simply MUST read the books, that my immediate reaction is one of rage. I never like being forced to be enthusiastic. I'm more open minded to reading the bloody things now, when the time presents itself though.
Anyway, there's a poster outside our offices for the new movie with Emma Watson looking disturbingly fit and Jim Broadbent in the background looking all serious.
I lover Jim Broadbent. I really do.
And I keep thinking - man, has their ever been a series of movie that's managed to attract as cast as good as the Harry potter movies? Seriously, they have pretty much every single great British character actor in there.
Richard Harris, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Richard Griffiths, John Hurt, Julie Walters, Leslie Phillips, John Cleese, Alan Rickman, Zoë Wanamaker, Ian Hart, Kenneth Branagh, Miriam Margolyes, Timothy Spall, Eric Sykes, David Tennant, Robert Hardy, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Michael Gambon, Frances de la Tour, Brendan Gleeson, Miranda Richardson, Gary Oldman, Shirley Henderson, Ralph Fiennes, Pam Ferris, David Thewlis, Dawn French, Paul Whitehouse, Emma Thompson, Julie Christie, Freddie Davies, Jessica Stevenson, Imelda Staunton, Helena Bonham Carter, Jim Broadbent, Mark Williams and Bill Nighy and Rhys Ifans in the next movies.
Even bloody Lenny Henry.
I mean, if they can squeeze Dame Judi in there, surely that makes a complete set?
The conclusion I've had to come to is that the casting for the Harry Potter movies is stunning. They pretty much managed to get everyone in there that I would want to see in a movie, damn them. To the point where I might actually have to watch the damn things.
On the other hand, it's slightly depressing to note that there's a great number of people on that list that a large contingent of people (mostly bloody colonials) will know only as "that person from Harry Potter".
Now why can't they get casts like that on movies I really want to see?
Those that know me well enough know that I used to harbor an almost pathological hatred of the mere mention of Harry Potter. I'm better now, but I'm still not a fan. I admit, it's simply down to so many people telling me I simply MUST read the books, that my immediate reaction is one of rage. I never like being forced to be enthusiastic. I'm more open minded to reading the bloody things now, when the time presents itself though.
Anyway, there's a poster outside our offices for the new movie with Emma Watson looking disturbingly fit and Jim Broadbent in the background looking all serious.
I lover Jim Broadbent. I really do.
And I keep thinking - man, has their ever been a series of movie that's managed to attract as cast as good as the Harry potter movies? Seriously, they have pretty much every single great British character actor in there.
Richard Harris, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Richard Griffiths, John Hurt, Julie Walters, Leslie Phillips, John Cleese, Alan Rickman, Zoë Wanamaker, Ian Hart, Kenneth Branagh, Miriam Margolyes, Timothy Spall, Eric Sykes, David Tennant, Robert Hardy, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Michael Gambon, Frances de la Tour, Brendan Gleeson, Miranda Richardson, Gary Oldman, Shirley Henderson, Ralph Fiennes, Pam Ferris, David Thewlis, Dawn French, Paul Whitehouse, Emma Thompson, Julie Christie, Freddie Davies, Jessica Stevenson, Imelda Staunton, Helena Bonham Carter, Jim Broadbent, Mark Williams and Bill Nighy and Rhys Ifans in the next movies.
Even bloody Lenny Henry.
I mean, if they can squeeze Dame Judi in there, surely that makes a complete set?
The conclusion I've had to come to is that the casting for the Harry Potter movies is stunning. They pretty much managed to get everyone in there that I would want to see in a movie, damn them. To the point where I might actually have to watch the damn things.
On the other hand, it's slightly depressing to note that there's a great number of people on that list that a large contingent of people (mostly bloody colonials) will know only as "that person from Harry Potter".
Now why can't they get casts like that on movies I really want to see?
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Date: 2009-07-16 05:50 pm (UTC)