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post #51 of 70
6/6/06 at 5:29pm
I suppose since most white Americans come from Europe anyway that some pagans were on those ships too, and they could have formed a community in some backwater town somewhere, right? Sure, a little farfetched, but not impossible.
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post #52 of 70
6/6/06 at 5:30pm
From what we see, they aren't so much pagans...as evil. So probably satanists, which is a bummer.
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post #53 of 70
6/6/06 at 10:39pm
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Originally Posted by bobblemonkey
There's no music in the original that, outside of the film's context, should be considered "scary", and I wonder if the importance of one's religious faith (particualrly Cage's character) will remain intact.
Part of the effectiveness of the original is that the music isn't all that sinister in and of itself, and yet the circumstances in which it is presented gives it a subtle creepiness. It doesn't bludgeon you over the head with gore, and yet it doesn't puss out at the end either. Since the marketing of the remake is clearly aimed at the same audiences that have been paying to see the recent spate of horror flicks, it doesn't really surprise me that it would try to hit the same notes in the trailer hoping for some kind of pavlovian response from its target audience. I can only hope that this is limited to the marketing, but I kind of doubt it.

As for the protagonist's religious faith, I'm guessing it was decided that today's audiences wouldn't buy his fervent religious belief alone, and would require something in his past that has driven him to his faith. I got the feeling that the firey car accident was part of that explanation.
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post #54 of 70
6/7/06 at 12:36am
I have to wonder if the character will be allowed to show the same horrified intolerance for their ways in this version. But then LaBute doesn't seem to be inordinately preoccupied with making his protagonist likeable.
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post #55 of 70
6/7/06 at 5:38am
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Originally Posted by Nigel St. Buggering
I have to wonder if the character will be allowed to show the same horrified intolerance for their ways in this version. But then LaBute doesn't seem to be inordinately preoccupied with making his protagonist likeable.
Woodward's Howie definitely comes across as jumped up little bastard, and given that the villagers are never less than cordial to him, he's clearly not a tolerant guy. Of course, the villagers are plotting to sacrifice him, but he doesn't know that.

It makes for a nice chewy quandary at the end of the movie - Lord Summerisle and his followers are much groovier, even far nicer, people. Yet they murder someone. We feel horror for Howie's plight, but I never felt much sympathy for him.
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post #56 of 70
6/14/06 at 12:26pm
Poster's online.
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post #57 of 70
6/14/06 at 12:30pm
Errr ...
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post #58 of 70
6/14/06 at 12:33pm
More like Silent Hill 2 or something...
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post #59 of 70
6/14/06 at 12:38pm
OK... out of all times to bee creative and actually use the image of the giant being...

Poster's horrible.
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post #60 of 70
6/14/06 at 1:43pm
Not to mention that the oh-so-clever tagline is potentially giving away the ending.
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post #61 of 70
6/14/06 at 3:06pm
For fuck's sake.
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post #62 of 70
6/14/06 at 3:19pm
Not altogether awful. Just a standard modern horror poster.
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post #63 of 70
6/14/06 at 3:38pm
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Originally Posted by Dan Whitehead
I'm also waiting to see how the central theme of the film is handled. In its original form, this is a story in which the moral construct of Christianity is confronted, challenged and - SPOILER!!!! - gets its arse well and truly kicked by an older way of life.

Would a major studio bankroll a movie like that today?
This trailer motivated me to rent the original. Now that I've seen the original, I have no interest in this remake. Because it just seems to be going through the motions. It looks like it's going for creepy by utilizing techniques learned in Creepy 101 rather than through the incongruity between the happy little village and the way its citizens treat Howie.

Oh well. At least it still has the plane.
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post #64 of 70
6/14/06 at 3:40pm
If the villagers are in anyway not nice people then the end of the film is ruined somewhat.
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post #65 of 70
6/14/06 at 3:43pm
Isn't the idea that we think the young girl has been sacrificed? And the poster, with the little girl on it above the tagline, plays in to that?
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post #66 of 70
6/14/06 at 4:47pm
Sorry I just don't see Cage screaming the Lord's Prayer while he's being barbequed.
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post #67 of 70
6/14/06 at 4:59pm
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Originally Posted by Andrew Clarke
Isn't the idea that we think the young girl has been sacrificed? And the poster, with the little girl on it above the tagline, plays in to that?
Evil young girl. You forgot the evil. It essentially says somethings rotten in the state of denmark from the get go
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post #68 of 70
6/14/06 at 5:00pm
Howie comes to suspect that the girl has been sacrificed, and the audience is encouraged to believe the same. The moment when she is revealed to be alive and well is up there with "John Doe has the upper hand" for sheer stomach-churning narrative twists. It's that moment where you realise you've been led so cleverly down the wrong path that you didn't even notice, and that you're in the same emotional turmoil as the lead character.

I don't trust this remake to have the same restraint.
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post #69 of 70
6/15/06 at 2:49am
I also have to wonder if today's audiences have been so conditioned to look for the twist ending, that even if the remake is faithful, they'd see it coming from a mile away.
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post #70 of 70
6/15/06 at 3:19am
Possibly. Though it seems with marketing like this, they won't need to. People only look for a twist ending if they expect one. That's why it was so crucial in the original that it only became a horror film in the final moments.
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