Nagini?

[Gruni]

Just sitting here watching Deathly Hallows pt1 and got to wondering. Is Nagini based on a real species of snake i.e. reticulated python or is it completey made up?

I didn't think the more serious chaps would appreciate me posting it in the Snake Id section but hopefully someone like Longqi will sniff about in Chit Chat.

 

[jedi_339]

Just sitting here watching Deathly Hallows pt1 and got to wondering. Is Nagini based on a real species of snake or is it completey made up i.e. reticulated python?

I didn't think the more serious chaps would appreciate me posting it in the Snake Id section but hopefully someone like Longqi will sniff about in Chit Chat.

Actually Gruni I think you'll find the reticulated python is real :lol:

 

[Gruni]

Yeah yeah smarty pants you know what I meant.

 

[MathewB]

In the books he's supposed to like 30ft long right? In the movie he's obviously a real snake, for the most part

 

[saximus]

I think they used a reticulated python as the model for the movies but in the books it isn't defined. I don't think he is meant to be a real species though since he is as big a giant constrictor but is also venomous

 

[Gruni]

I wasn't worried about in the books but rather the look and pattern etc used in the movie. I wondered if it was Retic.

I forgot that in the book when Mr Weasley is bitten that it is the venom that was an issue.

 

[CamdeJong]

Yeah I thought it had a retic look. Anyone else think the Basilisk looks like a common scaly-foot?

 

[mcloughlin2]

The snake in the movies in entirely computer generated, no real snake used there.

 

[Gruni]

The snake in the movies in entirely computer generated, no real snake used there.

You missed the point... we know it is CGI you couldn't get a snake to perform. :facepalm: But is the CGI completely made up or did the animator accurately base the snake on a real snake? Nemo was CGI too but they went to a lot of trouble to make all of the characters realistic facsimilies of the real thing... apart from the eyes and mouth movement.

Ooops sorry Mcloughlin... I just scanned back through last nights replies and saw Matt's. Even in the movie Matt it is not a live snake and even though it may not be 30ft in the movie it is still at least the size of an anaconda at the least.

 

[RedFox]

I though it looked like a mixture of snakes and pythons. Looking back it does have a bit of a reticulated pattern. Possibly a bit of burmese. With front fangs like an elapid, but a python shaped head.

 

[Shotta]

if this helps the name nagini is defined in some asian,middle eastern countries as a female cobra like serpent

 

[cathy1986]

nag and nagaina were cobras in ricki ticki tavi

 

[longqi]

Nilesh and cathy are both correct
Plus Indians call King Cobras Naga Naga
Yet Naga in Bahasa means Dragon

Google Image Result for http://images.wikia.com/harrypotter/fr/images/e/e5/Slider_Nagini.jpg
I have never watched Harry Potter

Agree with redfox on this one
In this photo from the web it definitely seems to have a lot of reticulated python in it
Pattern is quite similar and so are the teeth
Interestingly there are no fangs??

 

[PythonLegs]

The female snake in Kiplings 'rikki tikka tavvi' is nagaina, so, like everything else she wrote, it's ripped off.

 

[cathy1986]

The female snake in Kiplings 'rikki tikka tavvi' is nagaina, so, like everything else she wrote, it's ripped off.

I said that lol