Ever so briefly ...
May. 27th, 2010 09:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blamebramptonI am overworked to buggery and have a vile cold to go with it (damn you huggy snotty toddlers!), so am behind in every aspect of my life save comfort knitting (the healthier, more productive version of comfort eating), but I would like to say that there is one good thing about the otherwise awful Epilogue photos that are emerging from the Deathly Hallows set (here via the gorgeous Anna).
For all of us on the upper side of 37, they make us look fucking brilliant. I'm 43 and I look at least 10 years younger than that lot, even with a headful of snot. Really, like their appallingly ancient twentysomething James and Lily snr choices, I think it's the film designers' way of making the older set engage with the films. And walk away thinking 'You know, even without Botox, I'm not doing that badly!' Must dash, my comparatively ageless face needs to be at work ;-)
For all of us on the upper side of 37, they make us look fucking brilliant. I'm 43 and I look at least 10 years younger than that lot, even with a headful of snot. Really, like their appallingly ancient twentysomething James and Lily snr choices, I think it's the film designers' way of making the older set engage with the films. And walk away thinking 'You know, even without Botox, I'm not doing that badly!' Must dash, my comparatively ageless face needs to be at work ;-)
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Date: 2010-05-26 11:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-27 09:12 am (UTC)Ooh! Did that nail varnish ever reach you?
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Date: 2010-05-27 09:16 am (UTC)(What were they THINKING?)
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Date: 2010-05-27 01:16 am (UTC)And here I've been living in fear that I only have 3 more years before my face caves in...
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Date: 2010-05-27 01:30 am (UTC)♥
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Date: 2010-05-27 06:03 am (UTC)I thought 30s is the new 20s... and they're wizards! They're supposed to live long and prosper! O_o.
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Date: 2010-05-27 02:41 pm (UTC)*dies Laughing*
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Date: 2010-05-27 10:52 am (UTC)AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
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Date: 2010-05-27 01:17 am (UTC)It reminds me how I constantly boggle at the thought of teenage!vampires >_>
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Date: 2010-05-27 11:07 am (UTC)Richard Armitage is 39. Rupert Penry-Jones is, too (as a side note, can I mention that if they had swapped those two in to play Harry and Draco, I may have actually died of joy. Or lust. Joyful lust.) David Tennant is also 39, John Barrowman is 43 (a wee bit younger than me, damn him!) and Hugh Jackman 40.
Perhaps we are meant to believe that parenthood will suck the joy and life from your very being, which is not, I think, the message JKR was trying to convey.
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Date: 2010-05-29 10:14 pm (UTC)Let's wait for a BBC Harry Potter series, shall we? (Imagine Armitage as Snape and Tennant as Lupin, for instance. *g*)
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Date: 2010-05-27 01:19 am (UTC)And small children with colds should not be allowed to embrace the unsuspecting. Just saying.
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Date: 2010-05-27 11:10 am (UTC)Yes, even Brad Pitt looks younger than those boys, and he's had a genuinely hard life!
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Date: 2010-05-27 06:05 am (UTC)I think I need Caveman!Draco / Accountant!Harry fic like, right now...
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Date: 2010-05-29 10:18 pm (UTC)It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it! Oh, wait, there's fan fiction for that. Sorry, you're too late, guys! Refilm the Epilogue!
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Date: 2010-05-27 08:39 am (UTC)Charlotte
PS: Brammers, I'd like to thank the Sydney gods for nearly drowing me STANDING UP yesterday, so I'll blame them for my clogged head. It was not fun playing tourist at Darling Harbour ...
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Date: 2010-05-27 09:04 am (UTC)And YES! Lucius is canonically a little older than they are meant to be at the train station, and he is LOVELY. Though, as others have noted, they were cruel to Snape, too. Stinkers.
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Date: 2010-05-27 10:37 am (UTC)C
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Date: 2010-05-27 09:15 am (UTC)I wish so much that they hadn't decided to include the flash forward epilogue in the final movie. I would've loved it if they would've ended it with the trio in the headmaster's office and all the portraits cheering.
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Date: 2010-05-27 10:44 am (UTC)And YES , far superior ending.
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Date: 2010-05-27 01:30 pm (UTC)Those pictures, especially of 'old' Draco are just HO.RO.BILE! I have erased them from my memory already.
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Date: 2010-05-29 10:22 pm (UTC)I guess it's just another thing they changed for the film: they are seeing off their grandchildren. *smirk*
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Date: 2010-06-02 08:53 pm (UTC)the aging of the characters.
There was no need to make Draco look
the way he does.
I thought they would give him longer
hair, tied in a ribbon and a few
age lines.
Ron looks rough around the edges,
Harry, well, gee,
and Hermione and Ginny, I dunno.
I think I look pretty good compared
to the aging of the above HP characters also.
People are always surprised when they learn my age.
Age to me is just a number.
Cheers to us ladies, ;)