P.S. Am I the only person in fandom not at all convinced that Alan Rickman's performance was Oscar-worthy?
No, you're not. I haven't seen the whole film yet but managed to find video of TPT online and well, he seems to give the same stiff reading of Snape he's always given. Parts of it were moving, between the swelling music and visuals but to me the whole scene fell flat.
And don't get me started on the way the films seemed to have ultimately changed Snape's character into a complete, unambiguous "good guy" with no redemption arc or past misdeeds to atone for. I was afraid they were going to do that but was so hopeful that they'd do the character justice.
Stupid me. They haven't done justice to the character all along, why would I expect them to do so at the very end?
I better stop here since it would be too easy to go on a tl;dr tirade about film!Snape that I doubt anyone on your f-list wants to read. :P
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Date: July 20th, 2011 11:46 am (UTC)From:No, you're not. I haven't seen the whole film yet but managed to find video of TPT online and well, he seems to give the same stiff reading of Snape he's always given. Parts of it were moving, between the swelling music and visuals but to me the whole scene fell flat.
And don't get me started on the way the films seemed to have ultimately changed Snape's character into a complete, unambiguous "good guy" with no redemption arc or past misdeeds to atone for. I was afraid they were going to do that but was so hopeful that they'd do the character justice.
Stupid me. They haven't done justice to the character all along, why would I expect them to do so at the very end?
I better stop here since it would be too easy to go on a tl;dr tirade about film!Snape that I doubt anyone on your f-list wants to read. :P
*Waits for Rickman!Snape fans to eviscerate her.*