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A Theatrical Trailer for Fernando Meirelles's BLINDNESS Sets In!
Beaks here...
Fernando Meirelles's adaptation of Jose Saramago's BLINDNESS played to mixed reviews at this year's Cannes Film Festival, but when you've got CITY OF GOD and THE CONSTANT GARDENER lined up on your filmography, benefit of the doubt is a given. Though Meirelles got a late start on his feature filmmaking career (he'll turn fifty-three this November), he's quickly established himself as one of the most visually gifted directors working today, and this new theatrical trailer for BLINDNESS (available in many shapes and sizes from Apple) only reinforces my admiration for the guy (and his brilliant DP Cesar Charlone, who's somehow avoided the call of Hollywood).
Will Saramago's extremely complex study of a society gone mad in the face of a mysterious "white sickness" behave at a length of two hours? Considering Meirelles's talent for conveying a world of meaning with a single shot, I'll believe it until I see it. Miramax is currently has the film scheduled for release on September 26th.
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The goggles do nothing!
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But I'm a total mark for this guy. Loved his other stuff. Anyone watched the COM DVD? The background on how they did those long takes is fantastic.
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goggles!
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Jul 08, 2008 1:16:39 AM CDT
merricks14yearoldson is the real first post
by youareallmybastardchildren
But not showing up in the full comments.UPDATE: It has now disappeared altogether. Big Brother AICN is at work my little bastard children talkbackers. How does that make you feel?
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... far too seriously.
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or do all movie trailers use the music from "Sunshine" and that one song from "28 Days/Weeks Later"? That composer must be making bank on royalties. Oh well, still looks pretty interesting.
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Worth reading. People are bastards, basically. Can't wait for this one!
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lol a film about blindness looks fantastic and sounds atrocious. I'm guessing the vocals won't actually be treated like that in the film. Newsflash: this effect is probably better suited to a film where everyone takes too much acid. Maybe Meirelles can make that his next film.
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Big AICN Brotha!
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A movie about mass synesthesia would have been cooler.
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canadians dont get armaggedon...most boring piece of crap i have ever seen...doesnt bode well for the current piece of crap
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"most boring piece of crap i have ever seen...doesnt bode well for the current piece of crap" Hurrah!
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What the hell?
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...in Cannes. It had so much going for it: great book, great director, great actors. But it doesn't work. Looks good but too simplistic.
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Jul 08, 2008 6:03:18 AM CDT
I wonder if they're going to have the group rape scene...
by grandmufftarkin
I thought that was completely unbelievable in the book.
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kinda sucked but city of god was good.
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You thought that scene in the book was unbelievably horrible or just not believable? When I finished that chapter I threw the book down and came back to it the next day. In the book it's one of the most terrible things I've ever experienced. I think it was all too believable, which made it that much worse. It's the scene I'm most hesitant about in the movie, because it will take Colbert-sized balls to film it on the same level that it is portrayed in the novel.
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That's getting a little old, and it's stupid to be posting that sort of stuff here, anyway. I mean, if you're going to be censoring posts, anyway. If not, no one here is going to seekamillionaire.com. Give it up.
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I'm already having no interest in this movie. But I rarely have an interest in snotty elitist film makers telling us how naughty-bad humans will be punished for their humanity and/or how horrible human beings become in difficult situations. They need to make a film: "People Suck and Should Die (Well, Except Me and a Few of my Friends)" and be done with it.
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A big part fo the film was shot in Uruguay, and DP Cesar Charlone is from Uruguay. I guess not many of you know where that is, but we are just south of Brazil. Many parts of Miami Vice were shot here too...
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and a Few of My Friends)". LOL. kevinwillis, you and I have a mutual dislike for that tired, pretentious genre of movies.
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Having read the novel earlier this year, I really can't imagine it working as a film. It's one thing to READ about blind people stumbling around for weeks on end, but quite another to physically visualize those images in a film, and I'm not sure how the public will feel about watching two hours of it.
The book also really tries to create a sense of blindness with the writing style, utilizing minimal punctuation and nameless characters. The very nature of film as a visual medium seems to counteract that intention.
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When I first read about this movie, I was excited. Everything about it, including shooting scenes in Uruguay, looked to be quality.
But in the trailers, though I love the actors, there just seems to be... a lack of something. In order for me to care about people going blind and doing horrible things, I need the before and after so I can feel what's been lost. Maybe I'll get this in "Blindness," but I'm not sure. I'm a huge fan of Meirelles, so I hope he'll re-edit his film or include new scenes to clear up any lingering blahness. -
great cast, great director. as far as it being a pretentious film, i didn't get that from the trailer. maybe i'm an elitist fuck. or maybe i'm just open minded enough to accept this type of film's interpretation of people.
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...unrealistic. Actually, perhaps its the fact that I'm reflecting on that scene instead of when I first read it that I feel it was unrealistic, especially that the one woman with sight also partook in being raped (If I remember that correctly.) I mean, c'mon, would you allow your wife/daughter/gf to experience that and not do anything? At that point in the book I felt like the men were a bunch of milquetoasts.
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..no faith at all
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..hmm I'm still thinking about it :P
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I was hoping for a "theatrical trailer" not a teaser. Meh. That having been said, I'll see it but I hope the film doesn't play like the book in the respect that the author didn't know what a paragraph or a quotation mark were. One of the most technically difficult, but worth it, books I've ever read. Oh, and before anyone cracks the joke, the sequel is actually entitled "Seeing".
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GrandMuffTarkin, I think the men in the book are worse than milquetoasts. They let their new blindness and the terrible circumstances of their internment take away all their dignity and sense of honor. I thought it was unrealistic when I first realized what was about to happen in the book, but I think the fact that they know no one else can see what they do makes a huge impact on their decision to do nothing. They can say everyone else is doing the same thing and that if they get their sight back, no one would recognize them anyway. I had a harder time believing the women's acceptance of the men's inaction. However, I think it is easier to make a scene like the gang rape seem believable in a book than on film, so Meirelles has his work cut out for him.
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I do a lot of reading, and I thought I had stumbled across something great when I found out about Blindness. However, by the end of the book, I was comvinced that Saramago is a hack writer. It's very possible that Fernando Meirelles can put some life into what I thought were very robotic characters. The entire thing seemed very un-human to me.
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Fernando Meirelles might be able to pull it off.
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I also thought that he was trying to give readers a sense of Blindness with the lack of quotes and real punctuation, but no, he writes like that in all of his books.
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They need a visual hook that the book didn't judging from the trailer, something like blacking or whiting out the pupils of the blind.
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Many modern authors write like that, even mainstream ones. Tom Rob Smith just italicises spoken parts for example. Others, like Saramago don't even go that far. It's not about correct grammar it's about creating a rhythm, cadence.
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Also it forces a stringent discipline on the writer. It determines that all meaning must be implied through style and linguistic evocation. McCarthy uses punctuation sparingly, yet you are never in doubt as to whom is speaking at any point - As McCarthy has to make the dialogue expressive of, and individual to, each specific character.Onyx390, what did you make of his other books? I haven't read them yet.
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Jul 08, 2008 10:29:55 PM CDT
great great trailer but reveals TOO MUCH. what else is new
by burgerking
However these bad early reviews have me worried. And to be fair I'm sick to fucking death of epidemic movies, blindness is original, but so was infertility, and it's all ending up the same.
Also, typically, the trailer reveals too much, Moore goes into this camp with eyesight and no one knows, but the trailer she says "I wont forget your face". Great, now I know she blows her cover...
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Canadian movie about armageddon: people trying to get laid as much as possible, rioting, spending time with family. American movie about armageddon: send oil workers to asteroid to blow it up, minimal carnage, and no actual destruction of earth. Who doesn't get movies about Armageddon??
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The book is brutal and intense and so is this director. High hopes for this. Bernal isn't who I imagined as the bastard who takes over but I think he can pull it off.
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