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Maybe this is semantics, but I would say Lucas is a GREAT storyteller but a horribly BAD writer. Had he turned his final scripts for the prequels over to Kasdan or even Darabont for a re-write, I guarantee the story would have remained intact while the dialogue, pacing, and entire feel would have been stronger, more believable, and just all-around better.
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Jim Broadbent is Horace Slughorn!

Pretty good casting. I myself always pictured Bob Hoskins in the role, but this is really good casting. Broadbent will definitely portray the jolliness of Slughorn quite well.
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Originally posted by: Darth Richard
In Canada HP1 is still called the Philosophers Stone so there region one dvd uses Philosopher Stone instead of Sorcerers Stone.


Correct. And if you're as ridiculously anal about things like that as I am, you order the Canadian DVD from Amazon CA thus paying about 15 more dollars than you should, and you get all the books imported from either Canada or the UK.

And I still haven't been able to get home, so I haven't been able to check the deleted scenes for you. I have a copy with me, but it's a one-disc, single-layer, movie-only copy, which isn't much (any) help.
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I was reading an article about how the American version change sentence structure around from the UK counterpart not just the "u" in color etc......... So now I'm going to have to get those version and read the pure version haha.
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The first 2 are quite different, the 3rd less so, and by the 4th the only differences are "sorcerer's," "study" in place of "revise," and spelling/grammar "fixes."
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Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
Jim Broadbent is Horace Slughorn!

Pretty good casting. I myself always pictured Bob Hoskins in the role, but this is really good casting. Broadbent will definitely portray the jolliness of Slughorn quite well.


Hmm, I never would have thought of him but I'd say perfect casting there. At least in the way I pictured the character reading the book.
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Hmm, he'll be an interesting Slughorn, but I always envisioned someone like Roy Brocksmith myself.

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I was hoping Bob Hoskins would get the nod for Slughorn. Oh well. Best of luck to Jim Broadbent.
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I keep hoping for either Brian Cox or John Rhys-Davies as Scrimgeour. We'll see.

I'd love a cameo from Hugh Grant as the new muggle Prime Minister. It'd be a great nod to Love Actually, and Richard Curtis is certainly a friend to the HP universe. (I expected him to get a writer/director chair for HBP before they brought back Kloves and kept Yates on.)

How different would GOF have been if Curtis had helmed it? I guarantee Ludo Bagman wouldn't have been cut, and Rowan Atkinson would have likely played him.
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I always pictured Slughorn bearing some kind of resemblance to Wilford Brimley.

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That's amazing! So did I!

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Originally posted by: Nanner Split
I always pictured Slughorn bearing some kind of resemblance to Wilford Brimley.


Good call.
I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an Obi-Wan to go.

Red heads ROCK. Blondes do not rock. Nuff said.

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Wilford may certainly look the part, but the character is a bit more jolly than Wilford. Can you hear Slughorn saying:

"If I really wanted to, I could find out the temperature of your ass when I disguised as that armchair."

Dumbledore: "I'd like to present our new Potions master, Horace Slughorn."
[Harry and Ron share confused looks as they thought he was the new DADA teacher.]
Slughorn: "Well what did you think I was going to be around here, a fucking night watchman?"

"Eat your g-damn oatmeal, you little shit, it's Quidditch today. You need the horsepower."

"No pumpkin pasties! Makes me fart!"

To Cormac McLaggen after listening to him run his mouth: "Will you listen to this guy? He'll be chasing them dogs 'til his dick runs off."

And the best of all:
"You weren't just snoggin' Ginny in the hallway Harry, there were all sorts of intimate acts, oral and whatnot, that can be particularly hard for a trusting friend like Ron to forgive and IMPOSSIBLE to forget."
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Does anyone here think that now that the books have finished, this could have an impact on how well the last two films do?
I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an Obi-Wan to go.

Red heads ROCK. Blondes do not rock. Nuff said.

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