Potter mania
Took a drive down to IOI yesterday to catch the latest installment of the potter films. Had the fright of my life when one of our batchmates (who was supposed to be leading the way) sped almost the entire journey there while i struggled to keep up, with the both of us in the end taking just a little over 10 minutes to reach puchong all the way from bukit jalil. Twice I managed to fall behind so far back i couldn't see her car (though i'm not sure she noticed as she never showed any indication of slowing down) catching up only during traffic lights, with her completely oblivious as to whether my rickety car was anywhere in sight and all while hurtling down the narrow road at a speed faster than harry's broomstick.
When we finally reached I went in with as little expectations as I could, both of the movie but even less of the cinema. Fresh on my mind was the experience of another of our batchmate which happened when she was watching the day after tomorrow a few days back. Seated right beside her was a lady who appeared to be rather bedazzled by the show, constantly yelping out comments or advice so loud it was audible by at least half the cinema.
Lady : (Somewhere in the show) Oi pao lar... !!! Kuai dian..... !!! Hai bu pao arr..... !!! (Oi run lar !!! Faster !!! Still not running ar !!!)
Batchmate : ..........
Lady : Kuai dian pao..... !!! ......Shui lai liao lar !! (Faster run !!! The water is coming !! In subtle reference to the seawater that swamped new york in the middle of the show, with waves so high it drowned out the sound waves coming from the audience, which apparently were critical in determining the fate and outcome of our fellow actors).
Needless to say during this movie our particular batchmate chose a seat at the very edge of the row, right beside the alleyway where people normally walk.
However being an avid fan who has read all five books, I personally found it rather difficult myself trying to restrain from turning to whoever was beside me anytime a new scene came on, attempting to explain every detail I thought they might have missed, or to introduce each character everytime they came on screen, never mind that he or she was merely standing motionless in the background partially covered by hagrid’s head and playing a less than midgety role in the film, or even to predict what was eventually going to happen, from shouting out the incantation for every spell before they were uttered to voicing my displeasure everytime a scene came on in the movie that wasn’t in the book and endeavoring to explain to whoever was listening very patiently what was actually written in the text, in the process accidentally letting slip the twist of the show that wasn’t supposed to be revealed until towards the very end.
I don't know if this explained why the two biggest fans out of the five of us were bundled into the corner seats, separated by the F1 driver. Or maybe they had anticipated what was going to happen and just wanted to get themselves as far away as possible from all those who pride themselves on being an insufferable potter know it all..... or at least during the movie.
8 Comments:
Hahah!! i soo totally understand what you mean bout wanting to inform the entire cinema bout what spells/scenes/tiny bits and pieces that have been missed in the movie version of the book since i being a die-hard fan of HP also felt like doing the same! Do you agree that this is the best installment so far??:D
-YJ-
6:22 AM
/me want the 5th book too =/ mom and you promised to let me read it >.<
koko
1:54 PM
The seat i was sitting in was really stinky, until my hair also smelled like sour onions.... Cannot tahan have to esp. wash my hair late at nite. Imagine how many thousands of oily heads have leaned back on it *Shudder*.
1:12 AM
Hahah well i won't say this is the best so far cause i still kind of liked the other two... although i would say this was almost as good. There was quite a few things i liked from the previous series that was left out or completely altered in azkaban, like how there was almost no scenes with mcgonagall in it, flitwick looking so different i couldn't recognise him, how little emphasis was placed on quidditch and not knowing who won the hogwarts cup this year. But overall though the movie was not too bad although i would have to watch it a few more times to really appreciate it further.
Hahah bout the book i can remind mom if you want but it is kind of heavy and you might have to give up quite a bit of the other things she's going to be sending you.... such as your foodstuffs, dvds, or any other thing so i'm not sure if it's worth it, a potter book's not exactly essential you can read it when you come back.. :)
4:53 AM
Hehe hei misscow how come you knew your seat was stinky..... ? And i'm hoping your answer is because the smell was so bad you could detect it while you were leaning back on your chair.....
4:59 AM
I don't go around sniffing cushions. Will bring my own towel cover the headrest next time.
7:47 PM
I haven't yet seen it, but I understand about wanting to explain bits the movie missed form the books- I read a lot, and can pick out tons of things that have been overlooked, and to me the movies don;t make sense without them!
8:26 PM
Hahah hei don't worry if you haven't seen it yet, there's really no big rush... once you've read the book there's really nothing else that the movie can offer. Although it can serve to be a rather satisfying thing to do explaining to all LOTR fans who haven't yet read the series but whom has for the past three years been overwhelming you very patronisingly with everything they know about the trilogy... kind of an answer back..... although i'm not really complaining cause i'm a big fan of middle earth as well.
3:52 PM
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