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[rymenhild]

Saw Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban last night. It was, on the whole, very well done. The sets were much better than those in the previous movie. I liked the cinematographer's constant focus on clocks, gears and sundials, especially when the movie neared its climax. Emma Thompson was a fantastic Trelawney, and David Thewlis's Remus and Gary Oldman's Sirius showed me portions of their character I never would have imagined -- but that absolutely fit. (I wasn't quite so fond of Peter Pettigrew, however.)

For most of the movie, I was thinking to myself that the movie really supported a Remus/Lily pairing more than a Remus/Sirius. I was considering this at the moment that Remus was about to transform, when...

Wait, did Sirius really just grab Remus in a full-body embrace and scream, "This heart is where you truly are! This heart is where you truly live!"...?

Yes, he really did.

I suppose that's still subtext... but not that subtextual.

See also the scene near the end where Lupin talks about "people like me."

Comments

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Ha ha! I was more spoiled for the movie than you! I knew that scene was coming. Wait, why am I acting as though this is a good thing?

Given that Remus spent most of the movie thinking Sirius was an awful traitor, it makes sense that most of the movie had no subtext. Or surtext, even.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

You've got a point there.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

(blink) (blink) Must see, apparently.
...putting the sub in text, even late in the film, is quite a nice thing.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Indeed!

[obopolsk.livejournal.com]

Also the "stop bickering like an old married couple" line. :-) I thought the way they started bickering while Snape was threatening them was very Ron/Hermione-esque.

So far my strategy has just been to ignore the suggestions of Remus/Lily altogether. I don't know why, but that pairing really bugs me...

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

See, I knew about the "old married couple" line beforehand. The Hug was a surprise.

Remus/Lily obviously doesn't work in any sense other than Unresolved Sexual Tension. I saw someone's review... can't remember whose... suggesting that what Remus said about Lily trusting people others wouldn't trust actually had more to do with a Snape/Lily pairing (which made sense to me before I discovered fandom) than a Remus/Lily. I rather disagree, though, because Remus, especially as portrayed in the movie, thinks of himself as someone few people trust.

Maybe Remus and Lily were actually just platonic friends, hard as that is to accept within the scheme of fandom. (Maybe Remus and Sirius were just platonic friends too, but I prefer not to think that way.)