Slughorn in the HBP film, *Is Jim Broadbent up to scratch?* |
 Jul 26 2008, 04:23 PM
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My first thought was Where in the name of Merlin's most baggy Y Fronts is his moustace! but i ended up voting Although different from the book, he looks good as Slughorn, the look is fine, especially the second picture he really looks like he has the attitude right, so here's hoping the acting is up to scratch too
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Jul 26 2008, 04:38 PM
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Galleries Official Grape-peeler  Posts: 5,492 Joined: 10:36am April 5, 2007 Location: Trying to sneak into Leavesden studios.   |
I voted for Although different from the book, he looks good as Slughorn. I think that Jim Broadbent will make a good Slughorn. He was my second choice next to Bob Hoskins. He looks eccentric enough and I know that Broadbent can adequately portray his rumbunctious character.
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Jul 26 2008, 07:36 PM
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Hogsmeade's Butcher Posts: 6,519 Joined: 1:25pm July 10, 2005 Location: Sharpening my cleaver for photo-chopping   |
There is an HBP day-planner/calendar coming out in the fall that has this image of Broadbent as Slughorn, and except for the mustache, he looks pretty much as I imagined (much rounder here than in the other images we've seen!
 ) --You can see it a bit bigger here in the TLC Galleries. -------------------- |
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Jul 27 2008, 07:42 AM
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Galleries Official Grape-peeler Posts: 5,492 Joined: 10:36am April 5, 2007 Location: Trying to sneak into Leavesden studios. |
QUOTE(Hagiographer13 @ Jul 27 2008, 01:36 AM)  There is an HBP day-planner/calendar coming out in the fall that has this image of Broadbent as Slughorn, and except for the mustache, he looks pretty much as I imagined (much rounder here than in the other images we've seen! You can definitely tell he is wearing a fat suit in that picture. His robes look like they are made of tweed to me. Quite professorial. ) --You can see it a bit bigger here in the TLC Galleries.  -------------------- |
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Jul 28 2008, 09:07 AM
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Rat Spleen Restocker at the Apothecary  Posts: 478 Joined: 7:23am May 19, 2005 |
Ooh that last picture decided it for me. He is good as Slughorn although different from book.
He really does need to be chubby (because of all the crystallised pineapple he has eaten!) But he does not need to be bald or have a moustache. I agree with others that Bob Hoskins would have been my obvious choice based on the book description. -------------------- I went to the midnight reading!
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Sep 15 2008, 12:25 PM
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I agree with Hagiographer13 that this calander image of Slughorn, which is seen a bit closer here:
 Which you can see larger in the galleries here does indeed show the "roundness" I was looking for in the character of Slughorn. Maybe they can photoshop a mustache on him in post-production? -------------------- |
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Jan 10 2009, 04:57 PM
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Hogsmeade's Butcher Posts: 6,519 Joined: 1:25pm July 10, 2005 Location: Sharpening my cleaver for photo-chopping |
There is an awesome new interview with Jim Broadbent with the LA Times on-line. In it he discusses his approach to the character of Slughorn and how excited he was to join the panoply of stars that have graced the HP films.
QUOTE "It's wonderful to be part of this now, to come in at this stage, because they've got it running so smoothly now, it's amazing to see," said the 59-year-old Broadbent, whose screen career dates to 1978. "In the first one, I'm sure there was a bit of nervousness about whether it would all work, but now it's a unique position to be in, to be making a blockbuster without a lot of nervousness. It's hugely beneficial for the creativity to have a great deal of certainty about the process and the success." Broadbent . . . calls Slughorn "a good man, a decent man, but a weak man . . ." Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opens in the US July 17th. -------------------- |
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Jan 10 2009, 07:00 PM
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Newest Housekeeper at The Leaky Cauldron  Posts: 711 Joined: 6:51pm November 1, 2005 Location: The Rare Books section in the Hogwarts library |
QUOTE(Hagiographer13 @ Jan 10 2009, 04:57 PM) There is an awesome new interview with Jim Broadbent with the LA Times on-line. In it he discusses his approach to the character of Slughorn and how excited he was to join the panoply of stars that have graced the HP films. QUOTE . . .Broadbent . . . calls Slughorn "a good man, a decent man, but a weak man . . ." Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opens in the US July 17th. He certainly seems to have the grasp of the character! I was fascinated to read his impressions of the first movie compared to the book (which he seems to have read). nimbus xl said it best for me: "I said it before and I'll say it again, I don't really care if the character looks exactly like the canon character or not, as long as he/she behaves like the character JKR wrote then I can imagine that actor as that character" -------------------- Avatar by tonksgirl |
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Feb 2 2009, 01:01 AM
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Hogsmeade's Butcher Posts: 6,519 Joined: 1:25pm July 10, 2005 Location: Sharpening my cleaver for photo-chopping |
As noted on Leaky Main there are a couple new images of Slughorn available on-line. This one just cracks me up!
 He looks just the eensiest bit dotty here--and I love it!
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Feb 3 2009, 01:25 AM
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LOL! I love that pic! I really think Jim Broadbent is going to be a great Sluggy!
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