Amon Goeth is Voldemort...

[Dunners]

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/fc?d=tmpl&cf=fc&in=entertainment&cat=harry_potter

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really good casting :)

[Ash]

I like Ralph Fiennes as an actor and I've read all five Harry Potter books but I just can't picture him playing Voldemort.

I've always pictured Voldemort as he was in the first movie...on the back of the head of Professor Quirrell.

I pictured that head on a real body, his own, with a long flowing black cloak.
Throughout all 5 books I've envisioned him like that.



Post Edited (08-04-04 21:17)

[Dunners]

We'll see what they do with him. he's a  wonderful actor.

[Bheliom]

Just hope that part4 will be better then the third was. They really messed it up, left out too many important scenes.

[Dunners]

I thoguth 3 was the best in the series myself. granted they should have put a little more meat on the bone...BUT, it had the best direction, performances, and CGI.

Even though the screenplay could have had a little mroe too it..

I duunno about part 4 though..I think they f**ked on royally on the script. They're really, REALLY condensing it. ALmost to the point of the animated "lord of the rings' by Ralph Bakshi.

[Dave Munger]

Are we expected to believe there's a dude named Amon Goeth? Does he have a goat head? Led Zepplin trivia: Amon is called the "father of the four winds".

[Ash]

Amon Goeth was a real life Nazi officer played by Fiennes in Schindler's List.

That's him aiming the pistol...



A gripping scene I might add.
Goeth was unsatisfied at the number of hinges the kneeling man had turned out so they took him to be executed only to have all of their guns jam.
Evidently, that event really did happen.



Post Edited (08-05-04 21:32)

[Dave Munger]

Oh, I thought it was the name of an actor. Very Lovecraftian name. It must sound different from the way it looks. "Schindler's List" sucked, BTW, every artistic decision was made in the most gutless way. No ambiguity about anything. Concentration camp victims looked better than me. B&W is  a Madona video approach to slapping a veneer of artfullness onto anything. Speilberg should have just slapped his name on a really good documentary about Schindler so that people would watch it.

[IguanaGirl]

Well I thought Fiennes was pretty good in Red Dragon, but that was a different type of creepy. Can he really pull of the Ultimate bad guy look? Or is he too baby faced? Hmmm...

[peter johnson]

Fiennes was amazing and convincing in "The English Patient".  He definitely has the chops to play a stirling Voldemort --
I dunno about the "Schindler" criticisms.  I found it a highly realistic and disturbing film.  The scene where the half-mad guard starts screaming and shooting his pistol into the pile of flaming corpses that they've disinterred because -- ahem -- they're about to lose the war, though nobody says so, and they need to cover their asses -- Well, that bit sticks with me years later.  I thought Liam Neeson's attempts to introduce the concept of moral ambiguity to Goeth & Fiennes portrayal of his inability to grasp Forgiveness as a concept were riveting cinema.
All films have faults, but I was able to not be affected by the ones in Schindler & really enjoyed the film.
I think Speilberg gets an undeserved bad rap these days, just like Hitchcock used to -- "not serious", "senitmental", etc. etc.  I think the pendulum will swing the other way.
peter johnson/denny crane