Green Eyes
August 22, 2006 — pooksI’ll admit it. I have a weakness for green eyes, and if that’s vanity, so be it.
Growing up it never occurred to me that there was anything unusual about green eyes. My sister and I both have them, and my mother. I thought blue eyes were supposed to be the most beautiful, so my preference for green seemed more like defiance than vanity. I love brown eyes, too. Lovely root beer colored eyes, yum.
But I digress.
So I found this site, which you might enjoy if you, too, like green eyes.
Because it’s a frames site, I can’t link to their “Sexiest Green Eyes of the 21st Century” contest. (Vanessa Williams won.)
I can only say that whenever I think of green eyes, I always think first of:
It was kind of hard to find a pic that showed her eyes. Most of them are in black-and-white, and many of the others don’t show her eye color. But Scarlett O’Hara and her green eyes — which of course means, Vivien Leigh and hers.
The American public was scandalized enough to have an English woman playing the part; they would have never stood for it if she hadn’t had green eyes.
Which brings me to another issue.
This is one of the first things I noticed, yet I’ve rarely if ever heard anyone complain:
Harry Potter does not have blue eyes, damn it! And the moment I saw a closeup in the very first movie, I gasped. NO! Where are the green eyes?
I mean, it’s bad enough that they do their best to make his scar not visible. And in the most recent film the Weasley hair was barely red at all — with the exception of Ron. I mean, really! The Weasley twins (the rare times you saw them) were almost blond, and Ginny’s hair was a dull shade almost brown!
But Harry Potter without green eyes?
We’re letting them get away with anything, aren’t we?
Where will it end?
August 22, 2006 at 1:48 pm
I have green eyes. This pic is one of my favorites:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/100best/storyA_story.html
August 22, 2006 at 3:03 pm
Weren’t they supposedly changing Daniel Radcliffe’s eyes with computers to look green in the movies?
Green eyes are so rare. I’ve met two people with them, ever. Alas, hazel (i.e. partly green) doesn’t count.
August 22, 2006 at 4:16 pm
Yeah, that Afghan girl photo… man. I remember the day I unwrapped that issue and saw that face– the pic was breathtaking then (1985) and remains so today.
What’s weird is that NG actually went back and managed to track that girl down recently. I don’t have a link handy, but let’s say “life clearly is hard in the Hindu Kush.”
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August 22, 2006 at 5:11 pm
planetU–I almost went looking for that pic, but didn’t. Thanks for finding it for me. And yes, Brett, they did find her. The eyes are still haunting but she has lived on the desert, and it shows. I’ll bet the new picture of her is out there, too.
Jennifer, they didn’t do anything about his eyes for the films. That’s what shocked me. I loaned my DVD of Philosopher’s Stone out and never got it back so can’t go look again, but I remember my shock when I saw it.
However, oddly enough when I went looking for a pic of him to use his more recent pics have his eyes looking more greenish, which is interesting. If anybody reading has the DVDs, especially the first one — check it out and let us know. I’d bet money that his eyes are blue in it.
August 22, 2006 at 9:30 pm
I have very light brown eyes. Like a sun-damaged beige.
August 22, 2006 at 9:52 pm
How poetic.
August 22, 2006 at 11:20 pm
Pooks won’t tell you this about herself, but she has some of the prettiest green eyes you’ll ever see.
August 23, 2006 at 8:55 am
Thanks, cg — but Toni’s are EMERALD. Wow.
August 23, 2006 at 9:26 am
well don’t know what to saw after all this, but concerning harry, i think the important for the story is that he has his mother’s eyes, such a link can’t be taken lightly especialy in JKR’s books
August 23, 2006 at 9:31 am
Perhaps I noticed his green eyes in the book because I’m just predisposed to notice that detail, and others didn’t? You’re right — his mother’s eyes, and I wonder how that will play out later?
Thanks for stopping by. I was excited to see your blog was about magical things until I realized it’s in French! At least one regular poster here speaks/reads French, however, so maybe you’ll pick up a new reader!
August 23, 2006 at 5:20 pm
The girl in the NG photo is Sharbat Gula.
I love Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharbat_Gula
August 23, 2006 at 5:21 pm
And I just found people of Hungarian descent (me) have the highest incidence of green eyes in the world, 20%.
I love love Wikipedia.
August 23, 2006 at 5:32 pm
Does that make me Hungarian?
By way of the British Isles, I mean?
August 30, 2006 at 10:18 am
sorry planetpooks, ive just read your answer to my comment…lol
yeah, well, pity my blog is in french, sorry about that, but i think im not that good to write it down all in english…
what else…hum
Yeah ! Don’t worry, youre not the only one who’ve noticed the green eye stuff and as i said i think the important thing is the fact he has his mother’s eyes…
And “I’d like to make an announcement” (Dumbledore, 4th film lol) to anyone who reads this: it’s not because my blog is in french that you can’t visit it !! LOL
There are some pictures around and some news easily understandable…
Well thanks anyway (hope you understand what i wrote…
berowl
August 30, 2006 at 10:20 am
I’ll keep my eyes on your blog for the pics!
August 30, 2006 at 10:28 am
ok lol (that whas fast…
August 30, 2006 at 11:29 am
As you like things to be respected from the book, what if I tell you that the 5th film will be Quidditchless??
August 30, 2006 at 1:16 pm
What about Ron?!?!?
It’s not quidditch I’d miss — but Ron’s subplot. It’s important.
August 30, 2006 at 2:13 pm
well i don’t know if you came to my blog and i escuse you as it is in french, but well, how to announce it… Last night WB had an interview edited by the Sun and WB told that ALL Quidditch scenes had been cut. That’s not mean that the Ron stuff is missing, imagine : ron saying to harry : i go practice for keeper
harry to ron : yeah good luck, have detention with unbridge
1 minute later
harry to ron : how was practice
ron to harry : good, missed every quaffle !
Well I think we will not SEE it but it will be told, witch is really disappointing…
Also Rupert Grint told in another interview, that there is no Weasley is our king stuff in the script, he hopes it in the 6th…
August 30, 2006 at 2:27 pm
“The Sun a édité hier soir la confirmation de Warner Bros sur le fait que les scènes de Quidditch ne seront pas incluses dans le film de l’année prochaine (11 Juillet 2007) : Order of the Phoenix.” Believe me, now?
I suppose there are many more important things in that book than the quidditch, but it’s sad to lose.
August 30, 2006 at 2:41 pm
i don’t understand why you pasted my post, and i should believe you…
but yeah i agree with, thats pity, i had a comment (you should do it too) whitch said, the more they do movies, the more they ignore quidditch…
August 30, 2006 at 6:06 pm
Well, it shows I went there, doesn’t it? LOL
I think the quidditch has become less important to the plots of the books, which is why it’s being left out more and more.
August 31, 2006 at 5:47 am
yeah i think so too, quidditch was important in the first one (when harry discovers his father was seeker too)
Well, also I’d like ask you a favour…
I’m creating my blog in english, as many people asked me, it is just the same than the other one, but translated…
And as I know that Im not that good in english I’d like you to correct my mistakes in the comments please
Tell me if you accept this dangerous task….
December 9, 2006 at 12:00 pm
I have the first Harry Potter movvie on DVD. His eyes are blue in it. But, he is still cute.
April 13, 2007 at 4:50 am
I am German and Irish. I have GREEN eyes, my German father had green eyes, my mom has blue. I like being in the 2 % . I think the green in my eyes is from the Irish hillsides…. my hair is also red, someday I will go to my homeland.
April 13, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Good luck with that. I want to go to Ireland, too!
April 16, 2007 at 10:06 pm
I like being in the 2% too. All the people on my mother’s side of the family have green eyes too. After reading wikipedia I think it’s because I have celtic, germanic, and slavic ancestors.
P.S. Green eyes are muy bueno.
April 17, 2007 at 12:11 am
Welcome, Ekim!
You know, this post is always in my top ten posts for traffic, which must either mean that a lot of people are fascinated by our green eyes.
Or that we are all very vain and fascinated in our own green eyes.
Either way works. (wink)
July 13, 2007 at 7:30 am
i love you daniel radcliffe
July 20, 2007 at 2:59 pm
I’m checking right now… and, yes, In the first movie, his eyes are perfectly blue. So hott!!!!!
July 28, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Well, sorry to disappoint you, but - Vivien Leigh’s eyes were blue! They managed to make them look green in the movie- with the lightning. So I really wondered why they could do that 50 years ago - but not now?
On the other hand, Daniel’s eyes are so amazing, it would be a pity to change them in any way. He’s small, he’s got blue eyes and yet- I find he’s the perfect Harry. I suppose, had J.K.R. known him before she started writing, Harry’s eyes might have been blue after all. I couldn’t imagine Harry being tall. I think his power isn’t physical. And it makes him even more vulnerable -and heroic- being so small and permanently threatened.
As long as they don’t go and have a blue-eyed actor ever play Melrose Plant - I don’t care!
(I hope they never make movies out of those books! I definitely don’t think there is one living soul on this planet who could ever be casted for Melrose, unless Dumbledore, Hermione, Harry and Snape all together flick their wands and turn Melrose himself out of the book into flesh and blood! Now THAT would be something!!!)
I really agree with everything you wrote about the Deathly Hallows! I absolutely loved the book too, but definitely agree about the few objections!
I’d be happy about another book which only fills us in about the missing details…!
Kind regards from Bavaria from someone with only 1/2 green eyes- rest is hazel.
July 28, 2007 at 7:17 pm
PS: (Hope this works)
July 28, 2007 at 7:18 pm
Obviously not. So here you go:
http://www.nannavalon.de/DanRadcliffe.jpg
July 28, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Oh, very nice!
So what did they do, have Vivien Leigh wear contact lenses?
I’d like to know more about that.
July 28, 2007 at 7:25 pm
No, they arranged the lightning. That’s what I read about 30 years ago when I went to see “Gone with the Wind” 6 times in one week! I’ve seen several documentations about the filming of that movie ever since, and they always said that she had blue eyes and they went to a lot of trouble to arrange the lightning in a way that they appeared green on the screen. So I’m quite puzzled why they can’t do that nowadays. Maybe they just don’t bother. would probably be too expensive.
What bothered me more was that they simply left away the scar on Harry’s forehead! It simply wasn’t there! That’s real sloppiness!
July 28, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Oh yes — I’ve been bothered by his pale/hidden/absent scar from the first movie. And what was with the short hair this time? I think they’re working hard to keep the kids looking contemporary so they’ll keep the teen audience — but his hair is wild, not short. Grrrr.
July 28, 2007 at 7:52 pm
That’s right!
Besides that- I don’t like that last movie too much, I thing they emphasize too much the action part and neglect the more quiet and poetic moments. But that’s probably what the masses and kids want.
I prefer my own movie in my head!
July 28, 2007 at 8:13 pm
BTW — if you haven’t already read it — check out the book MEMO FROM DAVID O SELZNICK. You’ll learn a LOT about the making of GWTW.
And I can’t imagine who would play Melrose, either!
July 29, 2007 at 10:17 am
I guess I have, several years ago!
And- I think I could imagine one guy playing Melrose- if he was 2 inches smaller, 10 years older and wearing green contact lenses and goldrimmed spectacles: Gabriel Aubry! :-)))
*g*
(his eyes are kind of green but not emerald…
But the rest for me is quite perfect. Melrose at 32…! ;-)))
(Lucky Halle…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1wH5ZUfkxA
What’d you think?
July 29, 2007 at 11:26 am
Oh. My. God.
You’re right. Age him a bit and –
Oh my. I need to go reread me some Martha Grimes.
July 29, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Oh yes, isn’t he absolutely gorgeous? *g*
Well, I let you know my personal “picture behind the lines” then- the faces that I see when I read the books. I suppose most of us readers do have such a private casting- as long as there isn’t a movie which provides us more or less suitable faces. But I rather have my private phantasy, definitely so with Marthas characters.
This is my dream couple, my personal Jury and Plant (with emerald green eyes, thanks to Photoshop *ggg*):
http://www.nannavalon.de/Jury-and-Plant.jpg
Enjoy! :-))
July 29, 2007 at 7:46 pm
When I read, I very rarely really picture characters. Sometimes they are described so vividly (the Potter Universe) that I do see them, but in general I don’t, and don’t even try. I’m not sure if this makes sense, but I am more likely to “feel” them than see them.
July 30, 2007 at 8:07 am
Nor do I, usually. You’re absolutely right about “feeling the faces”. That’s what I really meant with “private casting”. It doesn’t necessarily mean casting with real people. It means seeing what noone else can see with your inner eye. Normally I “see” faces inside quite clearly (probably because I like to paint). And that often makes it a disappointment when they turn books into movies, as hardly ever the actors match the phantasy. Over years I was reading the J&P books without having real faces. Just coincidentally I came across these two, who matched my phantasy faces almost 100%. And since then I see them when I read the books. But it doesn’t make such a difference, because the faces I saw before were pretty much the same, even though I never had heard about those 2 real guys. Just a coincidence. I still hope that they will never make movies out of the J&P books. No matter how well it might be done, I’m certain it would always be a disappointment.
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July 31, 2007 at 2:51 pm
By the way, Nanna — when I first read the Harry Potter books I always “saw” Peter O’Toole as Dumbledore. Once I saw the movie, I lost my vision which breaks my heart because he was MUCH better than Richard Harris and left Michael Gambon in the dirt!
July 31, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Oh that’s a wonderful idea! You’re absolutely right there! He would have been perfect! I must admit though, I also liked Richard Harris, but find Michael Gambon completely miscast! Where’s the hooked nose??? He lacks everything that would make a proper Dumbledore! I always saw Dumbledore somehow as a twin brother of Miraculix (in case you know Asterix and Obelix the French comic).
http://www.suse.de/~werner/icons/miraculix.gif
He’s got to be tall and thin and very sweet and gentle and always very calm and very, very charming. And the blue eyes!! Right- Peter O’Toole would have been perfect!!
Look: THAT’S Dumbledoor!!!
http://www.nannavalon.de/Dumbletool.jpg
July 31, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Oh that’s a wonderful idea! You’re absolutely right there! He would have been perfect! I must admit though, I also liked Richard Harris, but find Michael Gambon completely miscast! Where’s the hooked nose??? He lacks everything that would make a proper Dumbledore! I always saw Dumbledore somehow as a twin brother of Miraculix (in case you know Asterix and Obelix the French comic).
http://www.suse.de/~werner/icons/miraculix.gif
He’s got to be tall and thin and very sweet and gentle and always very calm and very, very charming. And the blue eyes!! Right- Peter O’Toole would have been perfect!!
Look: THAT’S Dumbledore!!!
http://www.nannavalon.de/Dumbletool.jpg
July 31, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Wow — it is!
You see, Peter O’Toole has the twinkle AND the power.
August 13, 2007 at 10:54 am
Dan you is a very handsome……
August 13, 2007 at 10:57 am
Dan success yeah!!good luck to film harry potter and the order of the phoenik,,See you muuaacccch
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August 15, 2007 at 2:59 pm
i think people put so much emphasis on the color of eyes , especially blue or green. personally, I have Brown eyes and i think brown is a beautiful color and not much people appreciate in having brown eyes. Alot of the most beautiful people throughout history had dark eyes.
August 16, 2007 at 12:35 am
the reason they leave his eyes blue is because dan’s eyes get really irritated with the green contacts.
but then again they could make his eyes green by computer…
btw, her name is ginny not jenny (:
August 16, 2007 at 9:14 am
I have lightish green eyes, sometimes they look a little more blue and I never knew that only approx 2% of the worlds population have green eyes!!! The green is determinded by the quantity of yellow pigment present. Only 3 colour pigments are actually in our eyes they are…BROWN, GRAY and YELLOW…interesting I think!
August 17, 2007 at 2:36 pm
I thought they should have Dan wear colored contacts but look at his eyes!!! I cant even describe how miuch i absolutly LOVE his eyes!!! They are such a GORGEOUS shade of blue!!!! His pictures make me MELT!!!!!!!!!!He is so AMAZING!!!!!! I LOVE HIM!!!!!!!!!!!
August 30, 2007 at 6:50 pm
god i wish I had green eyes, my eyes are so boring. great site, that girl was a bit freaky but really stunning. god I cant believe green is so rare!! Its like the prettiest eye color! and about dan, in some photos he has brown eyes, some he has green, and others blue, or atleast thats what I noticed from my posters.
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September 19, 2007 at 10:53 pm
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September 27, 2007 at 1:13 pm
I love you Daniel radcliffe (L) From Me, XD
October 7, 2007 at 3:21 pm
hi dan , You rock so mutsh, hehe
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October 19, 2007 at 2:54 am
You peepl are SAD-who gives a monkeys arse whether daniel radcliffe has green eyes or not. All you sad peepl have to much time on your hands.
October 20, 2007 at 2:32 pm
It’s a big part of the book, Gareth. It’s better then the people who whine about Hermione’s dress being the wrong color.
And I agree, I hate how little Quidditch they have. And in the first movie, they get it wrong, Harry’s dad wasn’t a seeker, he was a chaser. >.< Stupid movies.
October 22, 2007 at 7:25 pm
I agree, why couldn’t they just give him green contacts for the movie? It’s really not that hard. I don’t think it’s a huge deal but it’d be a lot better if they focused on making his eyes green. :/
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October 30, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Yeah, I do think that’s REALLY WEIRD that they gave him blue eyes…such an injustice. Even if you look on the movie covers you can see big differences. In the 1st one his eyes are totally blue. Then, in the 2nd one they go to emerald green, then subtly move their way to a murky grey by the 4th movie. Odd… I am lucky enough to have those minority eyes… sort of. Both of my prents had dark black hair and brown eyes, but by some odd anomele (no im not albino) I happened to get blonde hair and one blue eye, and one green eye. Wheee! I love being special! -Phoenix
November 1, 2007 at 9:51 am
Dindn’t Vivien Leigh have blue eyes?
November 1, 2007 at 10:35 am
my mother has blue eyes and my dad has brown eyes but for some reason me and my brother have green eyes. how is this possible?
November 2, 2007 at 11:15 am
I totally agree… I have read all the harry potter books and of course picture in my mind a harry with dark hair and bright green eyes. About 5 minutes ago i was watching the goblet of fire on tv and noticed that daniel radcliffe has blue eyes…. WTF? they didnt even put contacts on him or anything!? who is in charge of casting for this movie? i also noticed that ginny’s hair was like a dull blonde… not even near red. fred & george’s hair too. even ron’s is barely red. i think harry having green eyes is a big detail that has been overlooked especially when you think about all the meaning that green eyes carry in mythology etc. which has a lot to do with what j.k. rowling put into the books!!!!!!
SOMEBODY GET SOME GREEN CONTACTS ON DANIEL RADCLIFFE PLEASE.. AND GET SOME RED HEADED WEASLEYS
THANKS
November 2, 2007 at 5:16 pm
to fred:
I just found this out today, on Wikipedia. And this is quoted from there.
There are 3 true colors in the eyes that determine the outward appearance; brown, yellow, and gray.
For example, green eyes have a lot of yellow and some brown, making them appear green. Blue eyes have a little yellow and little to no brown, making them appear blue. Gray eyes appear gray because they have a little yellow and no brown in them. Brown eyes appear brown because most of the eye contains the brown color.
Brown eyes: mostly brown
Blue eyes: little yellow, little to no brown
Green eyes: lot of yellow, some brown
Let’s say.. your dad has 5.5/10 brown and 4.5/10 yellow. Your mom has 2/10 brown, 4.5/10 yellow, and 3.5/10 gray. Then… you could have an average of about 3/10 brown, 5/10 yellow, and 2/10 gray. And that can vary a little to… 3.5/10 brown, 5.5/10 yellow, and 1/10 gray. So that’d work out pretty well.
But for the Harry Potter eye thing… GAH! Why don’t they get him contacts or something to make his eyes green?!??
November 10, 2007 at 6:28 pm
I’m brazilian and I have green eyes, my brother doesn’t, my mom have honey eyes, my father doesn’t, my grandpa though had green eyes, here in Brazil there a lot of people green eyed people, blue eyes here is rare…and that’s why they love blue eyes…when I went to the US last year people were amazed because of my green eyes….they all have blue eyes….I love BLUE eyes…and harry potter is cute!
November 18, 2007 at 3:33 pm
My mom has beautiful, pure green eyes. They’re VERY beautiful. They’re hard to describe. A solid, light, mint green. She’s the only one in the family with them. My father has brown, and I ended up with grayish blue/green eyes.
November 29, 2007 at 8:15 am
It’s ironic because they actually cast Dan partly because of his eyes, for the soulful expression in them (which is the most important thing, because Harry has had such a traumatic past they need to be soulful). When I read the books I do actually picture Dan but with bright green eyes!
I think they did try contacts in film 1 but they irritated his eyes. But they could try them again now he’s older. Usually I don’t notice but for one shot near the start of Film 5 they showed a close up of him in bed. They could touch them up on film for shots like that at least and also on dvd covers.
Now that we’ve read book 7, the colour of Harry’s eyes is irrelevant really, it’s just the fact that they are like his mothers that’s important.
December 28, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Scarlett O’Hara had green eyes but Vivien Leigh did not! Vivien Leigh had blue eyes…the production crew focused a yellow beam of light on her eyes to make it appear that she had green eyes. I guess contact lens weren’t an option in 1939. I picked up this piece of trivia reading material about Gone with the Wind.
January 13, 2008 at 9:58 am
first of all the picture above (the woman) has blue eyes.
Anyways i noticed that in the movies harry didnt have green eyes also and it was just untill recently that i found out daniel didnt feel comfortable wearing contacts. we gotta respect that right? but its true that im sure with all their technology these days the computer crew should have been able to edit the clips so his eyes look green.
also, i think rupert/ron is the only one who has true ginger hair. im not too sure about ginny but the acotrs who play fred and george have brown hair in real life so i guess it was hard to keep their hair colour consistent over the 5 movies
January 21, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Her name is Ginny, not Jenny. And
February 2, 2008 at 11:49 pm
I guess, with the Harry Potter thing, in the book it was just kind of a fact that was mentioned a lot that connected him to his mother, but it’s still like a little thing that people want to see and even if they didn’t want to retouch them green in post production they could buy color contacts. I mean after spending millions on those movies they couldn’t buy one little pair of color contacts?? It’s just ridiculous. Sometimes I do feel like they’re changing the Harry Potter image, which is stagnant basically. Green Eyes, Black, messy hair and a scar. The hair has been all over the place too.
February 2, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Oh, yeah, in reply to Brit, her name totally is Ginny, what’s with the Jenny??
February 3, 2008 at 12:00 am
Yeah like what’s the deal, it’s just a simple thing they could do to make the movies more true to the books, which they seem to have trouble with. Yeah Ron was like the only one with actual red hair, like orange. But Fred and George actually have brown hair, or the actors who play them do, so they have to dye. And Bonnie Wright, who plays Ginny, has like really dark almost auburn hair, so she probably has to dye to to get it more orangey.
February 3, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Sorry about the Jenny error–I’ll fix it.
And the scar? When was the last time you saw Harry’s scar? His hair is not canon; his eyes aren’t green; his scar is nonexistent most of the time.
They seem to be making these decisions to keep the characters stylish with some contemporary images, but in a few years it will all look very dated and nothing like the books.
I honestly don’t see the movies holding up well over time. Too many stupid decisions re: story and especially appearances.
February 18, 2008 at 11:08 pm
First of all, let me state, Vivien Leigh was and will always be remembered as gorgeous. Then, let me also say, since I am watching Gone With the Wind at this very moment, that her eye color definately does not appear to be green in the movie. I read all the above comments on the lighting effects, but from as best I can tell, her eyes are this beautiful, pale aqua blue color, not a rich green. I agree green eyes are simply the best, but even with her natural blue eyes, Vivien Leigh remains one of my favorite actresses.
February 19, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Damn. I could have sworn they were green.
February 22, 2008 at 12:03 am
I have to say that I felt that harry should always have green eyes, and despite dan having nice eyes i wanted them green. i think the movies are moving much to far away from the books in plot and tone, so i think they should at least pay attention to some details here
and harry’s scar is in the movies- it’s just very subtle, off center, and always concealed xPPP
i also have to say that i think viven leigh is absolutely gorgeous as scarlett o’hara, whether her eyes are actually green or not. i do believe they looked more bluish in the movie though. However, I think all eye colors are beautiful in their own way. just look closely into someones eyes, anyones eyes, and you will find flecks of other colors or a beautiful shade you hadnt noticed before or a velvety smoothness if their eyes are dark or perhaps try and look at brown eyes when they are highlighted by the sun, mine go from brown to amber in the right light. eyes are just wonderful.
SsslytherinGirl, harry’s dad WAS a seeker wasnt he??? i have read the books several times and i remember that as being the whole point…wasnt there the trophy for his accomplishment as seeker or something in the first book? i dont think he was a chaser.
and one think bothering me on this site: it isnt a place to ramble about how much you are fully in love with daniel radcliffe. mmk?
February 25, 2008 at 8:37 pm
I HAVE BROWN EYES! ROOT BEER BROWN EYES! I LOVE YOU DANIEL! I LOVE YOU! WILL YOU MARRY ME? LETS GET MARRIED! O I LOVE YOU SO MUCH I CAN’T CONTAIN MY LOVE! MARRY ME!
March 6, 2008 at 6:25 am
I have green eyes too….the girls love it!
March 6, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Luckily I’m married to a green-eyed man - and I look at him much more than I look in the mirror! (I’ve got brown eyes)
More important than Potter’s blue eyes is the casting of Michael Gambon as Dumbledore. He doesn’t have the warmth or patience of Richard Harris. And they dress him in blue rags instead of the beautiful robes JK Rowling describes in the books. If they needed a replacement- why didn’t they cast Ian Mckellan? He would have been perfect!
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March 6, 2008 at 1:50 pm
I agree, Gambon is horrid. My Dumbledore will always be Peter O’Toole because he can twinkle with the best of them but has more gravitas than any of them when it counts. However, I fear he got too frail to pull it off, so I, too, would accept Ian McKellan. Gambon is horrid.
March 11, 2008 at 9:47 pm
I am in total agreement with with the wtf-factor of Radcliffe’s blue eyes. I am, to this day, utterly mystified that this has not inspired a much larger complaint. Rowling has explicitly stated the importance of his GREEN EYES. They say it multiple times in every single book. Seems like a huge detail to just gloss over. I hope that someone can possibly go over this digitally in future rereleases.
And I also agree with it being a mistake casting Gambon as Dumbledore. I miss Harris!
March 22, 2008 at 4:58 am
I do complain about Harry’s blue eyes as well! I don’t understand how that’s been done when JK Rowling is supervising the whole thing… Before the first movie I was expecting hours of dazzling green eyes and then… :-S I don’t know how they’ll do it in the last movie, where this is so important!
That and the fact that Dumbledore would never shout.
April 24, 2008 at 6:29 pm
eu so fã
May 8, 2008 at 9:51 am
My eyes are dark, greyish teal, sort of like the sky before bad weather. The Harry P’s actor has amazing, saucerlike blue orbs that add to the necessary waifish vibe.
Green eyes are a half-way genetic mutation between blue and brown eyes. Scientists recently discovered that a mutation in a single individual thousands of years ago begat all the world’s blue eyes.
Didja know?
May 8, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Wasn’t there something in the news about that recently, the mutation?
That makes me a mutant.
Some people will not be surprised.
May 10, 2008 at 3:51 pm
I have green eyes too.. totally green.. I was jealous for peaple with brown eyes.. when I heard that most of the population have them. Only 1-2% of people have green eyes!
May 23, 2008 at 2:30 pm
EU AMMMOOOOOOOOO O DANIEL!!!!!!
ELE É UM EXELENTE ATOR E É MUITO LINDO!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE DANIEL RADCLIFFF!!!!!!
June 14, 2008 at 10:02 am
2 ofmy friends have green eyes… mine are brown except when light hits them, they turn yellowish in the bottom part… thats probably why my mom said i had cat eyes…. oh yeah i used to like daniel radcliffe 2 yrs ago and the 7th book is AWESOME!!! _-.D