That's pretty significant
Mar. 6th, 2007 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gmonkey42I'm more and more struck by how movie!Snape is different from canon!Snape. In the movies, he's been less nasty to Harry (except that one added scene where he smacked Harry and Ron on the head), thrown himself in front of wolf!Lupin to protect the kids and it wasn't clear that it was he who outed Lupin at the end of year 3. And we were deprived of his Hospital Wing tantrum slightly before that (if you pause it when Harry & Hermione are going back in time, you can see Snape was there but he doesn't appear to be throwing a tantrum).
Now we have this review/summary of an early screening of OotP, and a couple of major changes have been made to the Snape's Worst Memory bit.
1. The bullying is milder and doesn't involve Snape's underwear. It sounds like they get him stuck up in the tree instead (which I still very much look forward to seeing).
2. This is the one that really gets me: Harry sees the memory not because he looked in the Penseive, but by accident when Snape's trying to Legillimence him during the lesson. That's huge. That makes Snape's calling off the lessons totally unreasonable.
Which is weird because in the past movies, the general impression I've gotten was that Snape was nicer than in the books. Yet here we have Snape hugely overreacting* both to James' behavior and to Harry seeing his memory. Weird.
* Unless there's something more to Snape and Harry's interaction in that scene that the reviewer didn't mention. Something like:
Harry: I am not weak!
Snape: Then prove it!
Harry: Prove this, asshole! [grabs crotch]
That'd explain it.
It makes me wonder how different Snape seems to people who've only seen the movies and not read the books. Then again, those people probably don't think about it all that much anyway.
Now we have this review/summary of an early screening of OotP, and a couple of major changes have been made to the Snape's Worst Memory bit.
1. The bullying is milder and doesn't involve Snape's underwear. It sounds like they get him stuck up in the tree instead (which I still very much look forward to seeing).
2. This is the one that really gets me: Harry sees the memory not because he looked in the Penseive, but by accident when Snape's trying to Legillimence him during the lesson. That's huge. That makes Snape's calling off the lessons totally unreasonable.
Which is weird because in the past movies, the general impression I've gotten was that Snape was nicer than in the books. Yet here we have Snape hugely overreacting* both to James' behavior and to Harry seeing his memory. Weird.
* Unless there's something more to Snape and Harry's interaction in that scene that the reviewer didn't mention. Something like:
Harry: I am not weak!
Snape: Then prove it!
Harry: Prove this, asshole! [grabs crotch]
That'd explain it.
It makes me wonder how different Snape seems to people who've only seen the movies and not read the books. Then again, those people probably don't think about it all that much anyway.
