decade reflections

yikes, i've got only fifteen minutes to type out my reflections for this decade! GO!
~2000: started grade eight @ canterbury college.
~2001: grade nine, and i also started being mr. hall's cover girl, making me the most hated student by teachers for the next three years to come. :P
~2002: grade ten brought my best academic year; while i managed to perform in the top 10% of students academically each year, for year ten, i achieved DUX! :D
~2003: i went to japan! best experience of my life thus far! :D
~2004: year twelve, and OMG, i graduated with an OP1! :D
~2005: first year bachelor arts/law @ UQ, arts majoring in international relations and ... sth which i later changed to chinese, much to the ire of mr. jennings. :P
~2006: second year @ uni. i landed my first real job: checkout chic @ woolies!
~2007: god decided that he HATED me and smote me down with a brain tumour. >< most defining event of the decade for me.
~2008: after lotsa threatening :P, the hospital lemme home to celebrate my 21st bday! :D
~2009: i spent some time in the hospital in the early part of the year. just physio everyday bar sunday, nothing special.
~2010: my first trip back to hong kong post-brain injury! 'twas such a joy to see all my friends and family! too bad, little mickey pig could say 'yee ma', 'cheung cheung' but to him, i was 'um'! ><" :P sadly, we returned again in june, when my dearest grandma passed away with lung cancer. but in those four months, mickey had learnt to call me 'emily'! squeee!!! :D
who knows what this new decade coming will bring? whatever it does, i hope it'll be good! well, if it's all about attitude, i'm gonna believe that life WILL get easier for me! :D definitely, i don't plan to fall to my death any time soon! personally, i'm grateful that PIG mum no longer believes that i'll die before i'm thirty; that frees me up to achieving my dream age of reaching one century! :D
see you next decade!
cheers,
em. ^^

reflections on 2010

*beep* i've just lost my entire year's worth of reflections! well, i've got about thirty minutes to quickly type it all out again:
~uni-wise: *sigh* me still not studying. >< the chances of me completing my bachelor's degree by the time i'm twenty-five are zero, maybe by the time i'm thirty, then. :)
~sporting-wise: thankfully, the parents have (for now) given up on gleefully forcing me to go play baddy with them; also thanks to PIG mum who bought me wii sports resort for my bday! i love the swordfighting and the hundred-pin bowling. :)
~politically wise: well, this year, julia gillard ousted kevin rudd for the top job! for those who want a laugh, check out www.julializard.com. :P
~spiritually wise: *sigh* 'twas going so well, too ... i'd started singing 'you are my god' instead of 'i HATE you god'; i'd also started praying and singing praise songs to god again, when suddenly god MURDERED my most beloved grandmother with lung cancer. :( she was only seventy-nine, and had originally presented with pneumonia! >< guess i'm only chatting to percy every night, and totally refusing to sing any hymns of praise to an unfaithful god. :( but the day my grandma passed away, father PINKY-PROMISED ME that i'd see grandma in heaven again someday! meaning if god wants to dump me into hell when i die, he'll @ least haveta let me see my most beloved grandmother once first. :) i don't understand, really; god's promised that there's no unhappiness in heaven, but if god boots me to hell, how will my parents be anything but happy?
~work wise: i said when i returned to brisbane in august that i'd try my hardest to find a paid job, earn enough money to buy myself a plane ticket back to hong kong, browse the new year's markets and buy myself a rabbit head hat, but sadly, employment for the disabled doesn't come easy. :( i'm still unemployed, but luckily, uncle dick dick has promised that he can buy me a rabbit head hat. :)
~everything else-wise: phew, me head's still dandruffless. think i can leave that phrase in the history books. :P sadly, the treadmill's still alive, but hey *sigh* i'll survive... nothing much else to report, i don't think ... oh! hilary, win and florence jie jie's are all coming over to brisbane to visit me next year! :D
-well, that ends my yearly reflections; i've got about twenty minutes now topost my reflections for this DECADE! see you guys next year!
cheers,
em. ^^

megamind2

-wow, nobody's found any goofs in megamind yet! here's just the memorable quotes, then:
-Megamind: I had a fairly standard childhood. My parents couldn't wait to get me out of the house...
[Just before a planet is pulled into a black hole, a couple places their child in a rocket ship and prophesize greatness in his future]
Megamind: It was a high expectation to place on an eight-day old...
[Just as the rocket ship leaves, another planet that gets pulled into the hole sends off their own rocket ship, and the two collide with each other and race to Earth]
Megamind: It turned out a family in the Proxima quadrant had the same idea. That was when I met Mr Goody-Two-Shoes, and our glorious rivalry was born!
-[first lines]
Megamind: Here's my day so far: went to jail, lost the girl of my dreams and got my butt kicked pretty good. Still, things could be a lot worse. Oh, that's right... I'm falling to my death. Guess they can't.
-[from trailer]
Megamind: This will be the last you ever see of... Roxanne Ritchi! Huh?
Metro Man: Don't panic, Roxy... I'm on my way!
Roxanne Ritchi: I'm not panicking.
Megamind: [smirking] You have to find her first, Metro Man!
Roxanne Ritchi: We're at the coastline observatory!
Megamind: No, no! Don't listen to her!
-[from trailer]
Roxanne Ritchi: Your plans never work, you're SOOO predictable!
Megamind: You call THIS predictable?
[pulls a lever]
Roxanne Ritchi: Alligators, yeah, mm-hmm. I was thinking about it on the way over...
Megamind: Booyah!
[brings down a gauntlet of blades]
Roxanne Ritchi: Juvenile!
Megamind: So scary...
[activites a cycle of spiked boots]
Roxanne Ritchi: Seen it!
Megamind: [brings up a chainsaw] This one's kind of...
Roxanne Ritchi: Tacky!
Megamind: [frantic] What's this one do?
[unleashes a flamethrower]
Roxanne Ritchi: Garish!
[Megamind breaks down]
Roxanne Ritchi: The spider's new.
Megamind: Spider?
[sees a spider hanging in front of Roxanne]
Megamind: Uh... Yeah, the spiiiider. Even the smallest bite from... "arachnis deadlius"... will instantly paralyze...
[Roxanne blows the spider into MegaMind's eye]
Megamind: Aargh! Get it off!
-Hal: [to Roxanne] I've been watching you, like a dingo watches a human baby...
-Hal: Who are you?
Megamind: [disguised as Jor-El] I'm like your space dad.
Hal: And who are you?
Minion: I'm like your space stepmom!
[Hal shudders]
-[from trailer]
Megamind: All men must choose between two paths. Good is the path of honour, friends and family. Evil... well, it's just cooler. Hit it!
-Bernard: This is the worst day of my life.
Minion: No worries, this forget-me-stick will help.
[Hits Bernard on the head with the forget-me-stick]
-Metro Man: [to Megamind] You're gonna have to be the hero now.
-Titan: This town isn't big enough for two supervillains!
Megamind: Oh, you're a villain all right, just not a SUPER one!
Titan: Oh yeah? What's the difference?
Megamind: Presentation!
-Megamind: Minion, if I live, I will kill you!
-Roxanne Ritchi: Please don't do this. I know there's still good in you, Hal.
Titan: You're so naive, Roxy. You see the good in everyone, even when it's not there. You're living a fantasy. There is no Easter Bunny. There is no Tooth Fairy. There is no Queen of England. This is the real world, and you need to wake up!
-Megamind: Bad guys don't save the day, and they don't get the girl...
-Megamind: [happily] We're gonna die!
Minion: [laughing then stops] Wait, what?
-[from trailer]
Megamind: [as child] Sometimes, it felt like it was just Minion and me, against the world...
-[from trailer]
Megamind's Father: [last words to his son] You are destined for...
[the ship closes and takes off]
Megamind: [narrating] What? Destined for what? I didn't quite catch that last part!
-[from trailer]
Lady Scott: Our baby can fly!
Lord Scott: [reading his paper] Yes, yes, nothing but the best for you, darling...

[from trailer]
Megamind's Mother: Here is your minion. He will look after you.
Megamind's Father: And here's your binky!
-[from trailer]
Lady Scott: A baby!
[holds infant Metro Man in her hands]
Lord Scott: [reading his paper] Yes, yes, I saw it in the store and thought you'd love it.
-Metro Man: We all know how this ends: with you behind bars!
Megamind: Oooh, I'm shaking in my custom baby seal leather boots!
-Minion: Boss, I think this is a bad idea...
Megamind: [extracting Metro Man's essence] Yes, a very wickedly BAD idea for the greater GOOD of man!
Minion: But I'm saying it's a "bad" bad... okay, it's a good idea from your "bad" perception, but from a "good" point of view, it's just plain bad...
Megamind: Oh, you don't know what's good for man!
-all in all, an awesome movie! only thing: the 'minion' from 'despicable me' was cuter. :P
cheers,
em. ^^

megamind

today, PIG mum took me to see the movie 'megamind'! here are all the things from imdb:
trivia first!
-The film was originally titled "Master Mind." However, the name had already been trademarked by the makers of the 1970s board game and TV show, so it could not be used.
-The film was going to be titled "Oobermind", which was a misspelling of the term "über-mind." The word "über" refers to something that is large or great; in this case, the title character's over-swollen skull/brain. But it didn't sound right, so it was revised to become "Megamind".
-The film's plot was based on the premise: "What if Lex Luthor defeated Superman?"
-Roxanne Ritchi was named after Roxanne Simpson, the reporter from Ghost Rider (2007).
-To promote the film, Will Ferrell assembled 1580 of his friends and their acquaintances at a superhero costume function. This party set a Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of superheroes.
-Megamind starts his first years on Earth in the Metro City Prison for the Gifted. This is a parody of Professor Xavier's School for the Gifted, as seen in X-Men (2000).
-According to director Tom McGrath, the film draws inspiration from Batman (1966) and Superman (1978).
-The body that Minion wears is a take off on the monster from the film Robot Monster (1953) movie which featured a man in a gorilla suit with a diving helmet on his head.
-The observatory was modeled after the Griffith Observatory outside Hollywood.
-Metro City, is located in Michigan, U.S. This can be clearly seen in a shot where Megamind's satellite is in orbit around the earth.
-Megamind's invisible car is a homage to Wonder Woman's invisible plane.
-Will Ferrell had earlier appeared in the animated series "Cow and Chicken" (1997), which had lampooned the Superman story by having a Spanish-speaking hero named Supercow.
-SPOILER: Hal the cameraman is seen wearing a yellow "sad face" badge. This is a tribute to the Alan Moore comic 'Watchmen', where a superhero (the Comedian) wore a yellow "smiley face" badge. Considering that the Comedian was an unbalanced vigilante, this could foreshadow Hal's corruption and instability...
-SPOILER: The process Megamind uses to transform Hal into Titan is a homage to Captain America, who underwent a similar process that enhanced his physique (but didn't give him superpowers however).
-SPOILER: Metro Man quits his superhero career to become a musician. This pays tribute to an urban myth that claims music legend Elvis Presley was a fan of Captain Marvel Jr, and consequently that Captain Marvel was written in the comics as being a big fan of Elvis.
-well, i'll continue with my goofs and trivia later tonight; stupid hina's already late! ><
cheers,
em. ^^

circus!

well, CODA rang and offered us free tickets to attend the circus! of course we accepted!
pity, though, the circus itself was a huge disappointment ...
-the juggler dude was useless - he dropped @ least three things during his routine!
-the ring master (a lady) who using a whip; she had her grandkids each hold a thin strip of paper between their outstretched hands and she tried snapping the paper ... only her aim was off and she caught one of the little girl's fingers! >< poor kid cried and needed comforting, of course ... :(
-the only animal present was a horse - well, a two man horse! like, two guys dressed up as a horse ... meaning, no real animals. :(
-but the tubby girl doing trapeze work and the guy who stufed some other guy in a box were good!
-after the show was over, we had a yak with the ringmaster - turns out the circus business's family owned!
-only other no good thing was that 'twas pouring for the whole show! thank-goodness, though, we were in a building, not some random circus tent ... the other plus was that we were seated in chairs with backrests ... @ first, i was dreading having to sit on backrest-less benches ... :S
wonder how many years it'll be before i get another chance to see a circus! fingers crossed it'll be one with real animals!
cheers,
em. ^^

carols night @ BCAC!

well, last saturday, our church held it's christmas carols concert!
-when we arrived, karson told me that the choir was rehearsing downstairs. i was pissed cozdad refused to drive me down to practice. *sigh*
-after practice, aunty amy cham took me to the loo once, then we all hiked up to the main hall.
-i sat in the corner where some chairs had been reserved for the choir.
-'twas fantastic! i was so proud of celian, giving birth to baby jesus - she SCREAMED the house down! :P
-my other favourite was the teens hands skit, with the florescent gloves. as for my choir part, much thanks to aunty amy who led era drape over her shoulder for support.
-tess came! and she even brought her boyfriend patra along! :D
-when we left, we all got little gift packs with assorted goodies. i'm saving mine till boxing day before opening!
-all in all, 'twas a fantastic night. liam delivered a great message - he's due to become a grandad on the 20th march - my birthday! :D
anyways, here's hoping that we'll have another christmas carols concert next year! my only one regret was that we didn't sing any secular christmas carols, but as vicky pointed out to me, we are a church.
cheers,
em. ^^
P.S. but one hilarious carol i learnt from narelle's daughter! 'joy to the world, the teacher's dead. we barbecued her head! we flushed it down the dunny, it was so very funny, and round and round it goes, and round and round it goes ..." BAHAHA!!! :P
cheers,
em. ^^

narnia: voyage of the dawn treader

well, yesterday, after the two ladies from girlpower came to visit, PIG mum took me to see 'narnia: voyage of the dawn treader'! here's all my favourite trivia, goofs and quotes from good ol' imdb:
trivia first:
-Prince (now King) Caspian is once again played by Ben Barnes. Reepicheep, however, is voiced by Simon Pegg, replacing Eddie Izzard.
then quotes:
-Aslan: [from trailer] You have returned for a reason. Your adventure begins now.
-[from trailer]
Edmund Pevensie: Squirt? I'm a king.
Lucy Pevensie: Not in this world.
-Lilliandil: [Caspian, Edmund, and Lucy look up into the sky as a brilliant blue light descends upon them]
Lucy Pevensie: Look!
[the light transforms into Lilliandril]
Lilliandil: Travelers of Narnia, I am your guide.
King Caspian: You are most beautiful.
Lilliandil: If it is a distraction for you, I-I can change forms.
Edmund Pevensie, King Caspian: Noo!
[Caspian and Edmund look at each other. Lucy looks at them and rolls her eyes]
-[first lines]
Intake Officer: Are you sure you're eighteen?
Edmund Pevensie: Why? Do I look older?
-Lucy Pevensie: Aslan, will we ever meet with you in our world?
Aslan: You shall.
Lucy Pevensie: How?
Aslan: Because there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.
and finally, goofs!
-wow, none have been found yet! well, all in all, i found this to be quite a decent movie. PIG mum was bloody useless as usual, whimpering her head off during parts that weren't scary, then blubbering her eyes out @ parts that weren't even sad! :P personally, i was sad coz she wouldn't allow me any popcorn to share with her. :(
but look forward to a new post tomorrow, coz we're going to the church's carols by candlelight night tonight!
cheers,
em. ^^

AFO

well, about two months ago, i went back to the P.A hospital and had my one month review for getting some botox into ell's (Emily's Left Leg) calf. mrs. mouse walked me to BIRU, where i lay down on a plinth and took off elf's footwear. mrs. mouse examined elf, before deciding that my calf had changed somehow (more straight? more relaxed? sth like that, anyway) and i'd need a new AFO. so PIG mum booked me in to see rod sometime mid-november. he greeted me in his usual way, "you. get in." :P and after examining ell (does the guy ever get sick of grabbing people's legs for a look? :P) agreed with mrs. mouse and promptly casted elf for my new AFO. he lemme sign the cast; i wrote with blue pencil, 'rod BROKE my leg! >< o_O :P'. then rod said he'd try to have the AFO done by early december and farewelled me with the same way he greeted me with. "get out." :P
december started, and PIG mum rang to chase them up. so i went back like three days ago, and there, sitting on the table, was my brand spanking new AFO! the new bright red monkeys with bananas is quite different to my old blue tornado pattern!
so rod stuck ell into the new AFO, took it for some readjustments, came back, and repeat several times. i hobbled a bit around the room for him.
only bad thing, this new one hurts! >< walking up to the toastmasters froom last night was an owiee. >< PIG mum tried to ring rod and make an appointment so he could fix the thing; but he's away! >< think i'm seeing some other random tomorrow ... anyways, hope he can fix it!
anyways, PIG mum's gleefully forcing me offline now; fingers crossed that i can come back online after dinner!
cheers,
em. ^^

harry potter and the dealthly hallows part one

hello again! well, i've done the trivia and goofs for the movie, now all that remains are the memorable quotes!
-Harry Potter: [From the second trailer] You think I don't know how this feels?
Ron Weasley: No! You don't know how it feels! Your parents are dead! You have no family!
-[about Hermione]
Ron Weasley: We wouldn't last two days without her.
[pause]
Ron Weasley: Don't tell her I said that.
-Fleur Delacour: [after taking Polyjuice potion and looks like Harry] Look away. I'm hideous

-Ron Weasley: [from trailer]
[about Hermione]
Ron Weasley: We wouldn't last two days without her.
[pause]
Ron Weasley: Don't tell her I said that.
-Harry Potter: I thought you knew what you had signed up for!
Ron Weasley: Yeah, I thought so too
-Bellatrix Lestrange: Well, well, well, look what we have here. It's Harry Potter. He's all bright, and shiny, and new again, just in time for the Dark Lord.
-Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody: Fare warning, it tastes like goblin piss.
Fred Weasley: Have lots of experience with that do you Mad Eye?... just trying to diffuse the tension.
-Pius Thicknesse: You have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide.
-Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody: Potter, you're underage. Which means you still have the trace on you.
Harry Potter: What's the trace?
Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody: If you sneeze, the Ministry will know who wipes your nose. Point is we'll have to use those means of transport the trace can't detect. Brooms, thestrals, motorbike. We'll go in pairs, that way if anyones out there waiting for us, and I reckon there will be, they won't know which Harry Potter is the real one.
Harry Potter: The real one?
-Rufus Scrimgeour: I won't pretend to be your friend, Mr. Potter. But I'm not your enemy.
-Dobby the House Elf: What a beautiful place... to be with friends.
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Harry Potter: [after finding out about plan] No. I'm not letting anyone die for me.
-[first lines]
Rufus Scrimgeour: These are dark times, there is no denying. Our world has perhaps faced no greater threat than it does today. But I say this to our citizenry: We, ever your servants, will continue to defend your liberty and repel the forces that seek to take it from you! Your Ministry remains, strong.
-Bellatrix Lestrange: You stupid elf! You could have killed me!
Dobby the House Elf: Dobby never meant to kill! Dobby only meant to maim, or seriously injure!
-[Hermione is putting on Harry's glasses]
Hermione Granger: Harry, your eyesight really is awful.
-Hermione Granger: [upon arriving at Godric's Hollow] We should have taken polyjuice.
Harry Potter: No... this is where I was born. I won't return as someone else.
-Harry Potter: [to Dolores Umbridge just before he Stuns her] You're lying, Dolores... and you mustn't tell lies!
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Luna Lovegood: [after Dobby dies] I think we should close his eyes, don't you?
[Harry nods, she does it]
Luna Lovegood: There, now he could be sleeping. A/N :nooo! she couldn't kill dobby!!! ><
-Harry Potter: This is mental.
Hermione Granger: Completely mental.
Ron Weasley: The world's mental.
-Bellatrix Lestrange: I want to kill the boy.
Lord Voldemort: Wormtail! Have I not spoken to you about keeping our guest quiet?
Wormtail: Yes, my Lord. Right away, my Lord.
Lord Voldemort: As inspiring as I find your bloodlust Bellatrix, I must be the one to kill Harry Potter.
-Lord Voldemort: [calling the snake to eat the dead body] Nagini. Dinner.
-Luna Lovegood: [to her father] Harry doesn't want to talk to us right now. He's just too polite to say so.
-Lord Voldemort: I have seen your heart, and it is mine.
-Hermione Granger: Actually I'm highly logical which allows me to look past extraneous detail and perceive clearly that which others overlook
-Charity Burbage: [crying and pleading] Severus, please! We were friends...
Lord Voldemort: [Snape stares blankly at her. Voldemort raises his wand] Avada Kedavra!
Lord Voldemort: [Charity's body crashes onto the table. Voldemort caresses Nagini as she slithers across the table] Nagini... dinner.
-Ron Weasley: You don't know why I listen to the radio, do you? To make sure I don't hear Ginny's name. Or Fred, or George, or Mum.
Harry Potter: You think I'm not listening too? You think I don't know how this feels?
Ron Weasley: No, you *don't* know how it feels! Your parents are dead! You have no family!
Hermione Granger: Stop!
Harry Potter: Fine then, go! Go then!
Hermione Granger: [Ron wrenches the locket off and gets his bag] Ron...
Ron Weasley: [turns to Hermione] And you? Are you coming or are you staying?
[Hermione looks torn, she glances from Harry to Ron in shock]
Ron Weasley: Fine. I get it. I saw you two the other night.
Hermione Granger: [tears in her eyes] Ron, that's - that's nothing!
-Ron Weasley: How long do you think she'll stay mad at me?
Harry Potter: Just keep talking about that little ball of light touching your heart, and she'll come 'round.
-Harry Potter: [about Ron, after he returns] You're not still mad at him, are you?
Hermione Granger: I'm always mad at him.
-[last lines]
Harry Potter: I want to bury him. Properly, without magic.
-Ron Weasley: Hey!
Hermione Granger: You... complete arse, Ronald Weasley! You show up here after weeks, and you say 'Hey'?

well, that took three consecutive days worth of doing, but i've finally finished! :D and guess what - i'll have a new post toms! coz i'm getting my new AFO then!
cheers,
em. ^^

harry potter and the dealthly hallows part one

good evening again! i've got just over thirty minutes to finish posting about harry potter and the dealthly hallows: part one!
here are the goofs, then:
-Continuity: The piece of paper on which Xenophilius Lovegood draws the Hallows symbol changes between shots. When he is drawing the symbols there is a smudge on the paper, but when the shot pans away and he is talking to Harry, there is no smudge on the paper.
-Continuity: When Xenophilius Lovegood is drawing the triangle part of the Deathly Hallows, he is shown starting at the top of the triangle but then is shown finishing at the bottom right corner, having the right side of the triangle already drawn for him.

-Continuity: Ginny asks Harry to zip her up. He does, but when George enters the room and we see her back, her dress is unzipped still with the hook and eye fastened.
-Revealing mistakes: It's clear that Harry's glasses don't have lenses during certain parts of the film.
-Continuity: When Harry is zipping up Ginny's dress and kissing her, her hair changes to the way the camera is pointing at them.
-Incorrectly regarded as goofs: After destroying the Horcrux locket, Ron says to Harry "Three to go." Although we know that there are a total of seven Horcruxes, Ron only knows about six, based on what Dumbledore told Harry.
-Continuity: When the 7 "Harry's" are changing they are all putting on red t-shirt, except for the real Harry who is putting on a gray t-shirt. When he is leaving the house with Hedwig he has on a red one like the others.
-Plot holes: SPOILER: Hermoine erases her parent's memories and any record she existed from the photos and other things in her house to keep them safe from the death eaters. However, this would not account for the other people who would be aware of Hermoine's existence such as family and friends. Also, considering her parents were muggles there would be numerous documents, such as a birth certificate at the hospital she was born at.
-and sorry, guess i'll haveta leave my favourite quotes for tomorrow's post, coz PIG mum's gleefully me off to bed now. goodnite!
cheers,
em. ^^

MSN Space/harry potter and the deathly hallows part one

heylo! i've created this new blog coz windows live spaces is really annoying me with it's word limit and stuff!
anyways, mother took me to see the newest harry potter movie yesterday; here's all my favourite quotes, trivia and goofs from imdb!
trivia first:
- At first, this was meant to be only one film, but due to the size of the book, and the decision that nothing could be left out to squeeze into one movie, the producers decided to split it into Part 1 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011).
Link this trivia
-David Holmes, 25, Daniel Radcliffe's stunt-double, was seriously injured on the set at Leavesden Studios, near Watford, Hertfordshire. He was performing an aerial sequence when he fell to the ground following an explosion, which was part of the stunt, and sustained a serious back injury.
-John Williams, who composed the scores to the first three films, expressed his interest in returning to score Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
-Despite having stated that she would not be returning as Professor Sybil Trelawney for this film previously, Emma Thompson recently reported that she had just finished two days worth of filming as the character after all.
-Composer Alexandre Desplat's favorite Harry Potter character is Dobby.
-One of the posters in the diner where the trio ends up in London is from Daniel Radcliffe's play Equus.
-It was announced in August 2009 that Jamie Waylett will not be reprising his role as Vincent Crabbe after his highly-publicized arrest for marijuana possession and cultivation.
-First film in the franchise to cite "sensuality" as a reason for its MPAA rating.
-This is the only Harry Potter film not to feature Hogwarts.
-In the opening of the film, when Hermione is called down to tea, we can hear her parents talking about Australia along with an announcer, presumably on the TV, taking about a country-side. This is a reference to the book, in which Hermione says she not only wiped herself from her parents memories, but gave them new identities and made them think that they'd love nothing more than to move to Australia, which we presume that they do.
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-It had been reported that the film would contain a few scenes of Daniel Radcliffe in the nude, leading to speculation among fans that the film would earn a more strict rating. This turned out not to be the case, although the scene in which visions of Harry and Hermione kissing appear to try to deter Ron give the illusion that Radcliffe and Emma Watson are both nude. In reality both actors wore jeans and Watson was provided with a strapless brassiere so she would not have to be completely topless. Director David Yates said that complete nudity was not necessary as the characters would be partially obscured by fog.
-Linguist expert Dr. Francis Nolan devised the Parseltongue language for this and the other Harry Potter films which feature the serpent speak.
-Rhys Ifans admitted that he never read the books of the series but took the role of Mr. Lovegood out of the chance to work with other cast, being the show with an all-star cast.
-According to David Heyman, the work print of the film was at 5.5 hours long, and the shooting script was close to 500 pages, which justified the decision to split the movie into two.
-SPOILER: Filming the torture scene where Bellatrix is torturing Hermione at the Malfoy's Manor at the climax proved to be very intense for the actors involved (Most of the scene was cut to avoid an R rating in the USA and a 15 rating in the UK). So intense and brutal as it was that 'Helena Boham Carter' approached Emma Watson right afterward to make sure they were still on good terms.
-SPOILER: Having Bellatrix carve "mudblood" into Hermione's arm during the torture scene was not in the original script, but it was an idea that both Emma Watson and Helena Bonham Carter came up with together on the spur of the moment during filming.
-hey, sorry, i don't have time to finish this coz PIG mum's gleefully forcing me off to bed now; i'll try my best to come back toms and finish it, okies? no - wait, toms night is the book club dinner! saturday, then, maybe. :) goodnight!
cheers,
em. ^^
P.S. i've still got goofs and favourite quotes left to do; i've only finished the trivia.