Especially Bad Guys! She's absolutely wizard when it comes to Bad Guys.
I'm rereading Chamber of Secrets, and once again am longing to pound that pestilential Gilderoy Lockhart right into the ground. He's the most annoying person in the entire series, I'm thinking.
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And Kenneth Branagh was one of the best casting choices and acting turns of all the movies. Although I wouldn't pit it against Alan Rickman as Snape -- I couldn't choose between the two. Both were to some degree cast against type, and did beautifully. Then there was Maggie Smith as McGonagall, although that role was more of a "natural" for her.
The worst, IMO, casting choice was Michael Gambon. He just is much too flat, too passive, not "deep" enough for the genius, wise, "mental," and ultimately conflicted Dumbledore. He doesn't radiate Dumbledoreness the way Richard Harris did -- he just kind of sits there and says Dumbledore's lines.
It's a pity Ian McKellen wasn't available. Although, after playing Gandalf, you might not be able to see him play a venerable wizard without thinking it WAS Gandalf, and that could be a problem, too.
Anyhow, she had quite the pile of characters, didn't she? Dolores Umbridge was another classic -- you could just see, hear, and even feel what it was like to be in the room with her.
And who was that ghastly reporter? The one who basically made stuff up?
Another character that makes ones palms itch is the Professor Trelawny, she with the Inner Eye.
She was hilarious. ;^)
I think the perfect Dumbledore would have been Peter O'Toole. I'm certain Rowling must have known the characters she portrays best-- I agree about Umbridge. I think the floozy astrology professor must have been another.~Eleanor
That's a truly brilliant casting idea, Eleanor! Peter O'Toole would have been a most marvelous Dumbledore, no doubt about it.
Absolutely! I adore Rowling's writing as well and agree that Kenneth Branah was well cast for his part. And...I miss Richard Harris terribly.
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