Yeah, Biggirl, I was really disappointed in their casting of Hermione, too. In the books, she seems like this gawky, geeky, vulnerable girl. In the movie, she just came across as a cute, spoiled little brat. Actually, I found The Sorcerer’s Stone movie such a disappointment that I really don’t want to see the others. Nothing they can put on screen for The Chamber of Secrets will be as good as the images I already have in my head.
Dark Horizons comes through again. Check out screenshots from the teaser trailer for HP2, due to premiere on the web next week:
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Harry: By the power of Greyskull! I am HE-MAN!!!
It doesn’t say she’s not cute in the books. I’ve read the first two again within the last three weeks, and specifically looked for references to that, and there aren’t any, beyond messy hair. I haven’t read the fourth book yet, but it would be weird, IMO, if they suddenly said that she was homely… besides, cute and beautiful are very different things, aren’t they?
I think Hermione is really pretty!
Aside from that… no offense to Ken, but isn’t Gilderoy supposed to be handsome?
Sheesh, people, haven’t you learned? There are no ugly people in Hollywood. It’s become one of the standard dramatic conventions. You’re not expected to know that a character is less attractive based on looking at him or her; you’re expected to know based on the other characters saying so.
Really, it’s no worse than in Shakespeare, how any disguise, no matter how thin, is impenetrable, or the other characters never hear what’s said in an aside. It’s just one of those things you have to accept, to move the story along.