OOps. Dan in the 1st film was absoloutly crap. I am sorry dan if you ever read this but i can see why your dad didn't want you to do the harry potter films. He was chosen because he LOOKED the part. They didn't care if the people could hardly act. Emma may over react ( she ment to 'duh' this is hermione she is playing) but at least she DOES. Daniel has turned harry into a super hero. He isn't a super hero he is an unsure teenage boy. And in the scene talking with dobby in the bedroom why the hell does he suddenly turn american? I think rupert hasn't turned ron into neville the script writer has. Ruper is a talented actor and if the script was more like ron (poor, NOT stupid but really insentitive) Then i think he would do rons part justice. And to any one who says emma is crap, to save my self from arguements ill just say. I think she is terrificand i hope to see her again.
Originally posted by Luna150
OOps. Dan in the 1st film was absoloutly crap. I am sorry dan if you ever read this but i can see why your dad didn't want you to do the harry potter films. He was chosen because he LOOKED the part. They didn't care if the people could hardly act. Emma may over react ( she ment to 'duh' this is hermione she is playing) but at least she DOES. Daniel has turned harry into a super hero. He isn't a super hero he is an unsure teenage boy. And in the scene talking with dobby in the bedroom why the hell does he suddenly turn american? I think rupert hasn't turned ron into neville the script writer has. Ruper is a talented actor and if the script was more like ron (poor, NOT stupid but really insentitive) Then i think he would do rons part justice. And to any one who says emma is crap, to save my self from arguements ill just say. I think she is terrificand i hope to see her again.
i agrre wit most of ur points-dat Dan is craap im sorry but he is n now der rellin us dat der ALL doin' da next 2 movies/films! if i wa da director n i said dat HE could do dem i'd atleast give him acting lessons!
p.s Emma n Rupert n Tom r all sound!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yeah i agree too. yes maybe that was the screenwriting, but i think he could calm that a lil bit down. (rupert i mean)
i dont think that emma overreacted, maybe a very, very lil bit... but still like her as hermione. i have got nothing against daniel personally... i dont know him, and so i cant say anything about him, but i still dont liek him as harry... yeah he plays the super hero
*snorts* and who could do better then Dan? and Emma makes Hermione look stuck up! Hermione isn't supposed to be stuck up. There are a lot of other people who could do better then her.
Harry is a hero who is brave! He is not unsure, only in the first book. and Dan did the unsure 11 year old brilliant! in the second book he became more sure of himself and more brave. Exactly what Dan did!
Dan's parents didn't want him being in the movie because they knew how popular it would and how changed Dan's life would be. They didn't want pressure on Dan and it affecting his school work!
i've just read every post here, and to be perfectly honest i don't think it was any of the actor's faults for the movies being a huge let down. the books are absolutely amazing, i finished reading a long awaited "order of the phoenix" last nite, and i'm still in awe. J.K.Rowling's talent has in no way been done justice in any of the films, very important parts were cut that held details needed for a full understanding of the story, and most of the characters weren't portrayed well enough at all. obviously i realise that if the films were to be as good as the books, they would need to be at least four hours long, but as this is not possible, they shouldn't have been made! i have not seen a movie yet that truly does justice to the original book, except perhaps the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and hopefully that was a breakthrough for other books to be made into films in a way that doesn't leave the audience feeling disappointed and deflated.
to return to the first point i made about it being not the actor's fault, but the writers, i believe that dan, rupert and emma were possibly the best for the roles, but the actual films were simply not up to scratch!
O well all i can say is hermione isn't 'stuck up' exactly but she is posh and well spoken isnt she. Plus Harry doesn want to be a hero he wants to be normal. so the "lets hope harry will be around to save the day" and the "dont worry i will be" were totoly stupid and sounded like somthing out of pokemon but of course that is daniels fault. When i have emet every single person and seen them act then ill tell u whos the best for the parts. Peopl tell me is u noticed harry suddedn turn american in some parts. Im sorry but Dan was really rubbish in the 1st film but he is definalty improving. Also i think in the films dumbledore looks over his gasses and gave people'looks' Too often. Anyway i think all the actors are goof espec alan rickman. But i really think dan was type cast. J.K wanted him as harry before he even did a screen test
luna, you've got really gd points! dan is getting a lot better, but dont most ppl with age and experience? i think the best actor for the character was alan rickman as snape, and zoe wannamaker as madam hooch, i thought she was excellent! unfortunately, i dont think hagrid was portrayed properly, for a start i never saw him as fat in my imagination, i figured he would be quite well toned, obviously tall, but definitely not fat coz he does a lot of outdoor things! and i think fred and george were perfect, but they could've been better lookin! aaah, oliver wood *swoon*
but why does everyone hate emma? i think she was really good as hermione, i related to her coz i was seen as a complete boffin when i was in school, itz difficult to be "cool" if your intelligence is high!! 😆
but maybe she was a little pompous, but i think that is because she knew she'd have a hard time of it, being clever and a "Mudblood" as Draco calls her. She just had good defences and used her intelligence to protect herslf, seeming a bit stuck up in doing so!!
Yeah Dan could do a lot better. Actually I think he did okay in the first---everyone did. COME ON, THEY JUST STARTED! Tom Felton was brilliant from the beginning, and Emma and Rupert were pretty okay too. But in the second, I really expected them to get better, and they did...too much. Everyone overacted! (That's one thing I hate, which is why I hate Hilary Duff, she overacts evvvverything) I think even though Emma still overacted in the third film (from the pictures), I think she's getting better because she's stressing the right things.
Anyhoo.