Happy Birthday wishes go out to Alfonso Cuarón, the director of “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” who is today celebrating his 46th birthday. Cheers, Alfonso!
HaPpY BiRtHdAy, Alfonso!! Another young face:)
This is off the topic, but yeah, Emma’s Yule Ball hissy was quite startling in the sense of exaggeration. Or something. Not quite sure what it was. All I’m saying is, if I had been chosen to play a principal role in HP, I would make sure to study with the best acting coach whenever possible and do some of my own acting homework as well to help assure a well-delivered and received performance. Directors may help, but cannot do all the work for you.
Happy birthday to Mr. Cuaron! You were the best director that has so far worked on this franchise, in terms of artistic talent, and I truly did appreciate your work on the Prisoner of Azkaban! Hope you and your family are having a pleasant day.
Happy birthday Alfonso!!
You brought the HP films to a new plateau, both artistically and plot-wise. You proved that Potter films can be amazing even if they do not follow the book word-for-word, but rather, follow the same spirit and themes of the novels.
Azkaban was lauded by film critics when it came out as the best Potter film to date, and many including myself would still agree with that.
Your other works, including Little Princess and most recently Children of Men are soon to be classics!!
Please come back for HP7, I can’t imagine what you could pull off with the final chapter!
I think the characters on screen are a mixture of what the director, writer and producer wants, and what the actors does in response. Maybe the directors wanted what they got from Emma but I ain’t got a huge problem with what she’s done apart from over active eyebrows. But watch Miranda Richardson in Gof and even Imelda Staunton at times in ootp, lots of moving eyebrows. Some people just got expressive faces. Dan’s face doesn’t move much at all. And his name is Radcliffe, M J, not Ratcliffe.
In addition to my last comment, I forgot to add:
Alphonso is only 46?? Wow, good looking man for his age, way to go!
Zee and Joy
Agree with you both; so in summary
Emma needs to
1 – Decide if she really wants to make acting her career; 2- If so -really commit to it; in other words, do the “hard yards” that all actors have to do;
3 -Be lucky with your screenwriter and director. I think you were right in that Zee, so this brings us back, on topic, to Cuaron, who obviously adored her and she responded accordingly.
As ever, its never just one thing !
This is why I hate Harry Potter fans. Could we stop with the Emma bashing? Please? Grow up people.
Michael
If you call the above comments “Emma bashing” -Wow ! -You do have a very thin skin.
Everyone above clearly want her to improve; plainly -and clearly -she wants to improve -and we all hope she does. She has done good work in the films in the past ; and I believe she can do even better work in the future -if she really wants to. Its up to her.
Feliz Cumpleanos a ti, mi favorito HP director! :D
Que tengas un buen dia.
If you can understand that, get a spanish dictionary. :P
Happy birthday, it’s because of you that the HP series was more interesting. you set the scale high and no other directors have been close to what you did. Hope you could do DH(since it’s too late for HBP).
Happy Birthday! I loved POA! :)
ugh, he should NOT direct the last movie… I’ll cry if we get talking heads instead of the Gringotts scene or Dobby’s death. The third movie made almost one hundred MILLION dollars less than CoS, which was the second to least grossing film of the HP movies. I don’t know about the rest of you, but that is A LOT of money, and I don’t think WB is going to flush it down the drain. He ruined what is one of the best books out of all of them. So he can have a happy 46th bday, as long as he doesn’t direct the last Potter movie in my opinion.
Happee birthday alfonso. I’m hoping to see you at DH.