Friday
Mar232012
Don't Mess With Saoirse's Baby Blues!
Friday, March 23, 2012 at 12:27PM The teaser trailer for The Host, another dread Stephenie Meyers (Twilight) adaptation...
It begins by visually equating a possible apocalyptic danger to the earth with blue eyes and it ends with a series of eyes, all computer or contact enhanced toward possessed creepiness.
If you ask me it's entirely regrettable to fuck with Saoirse Ronan's unforgettable blues because they need no computer enhancement to spook and thrill.
I saw him. I saw him with my own eyes."
tagged Colorology, Saoirse Ronan, The Host, sci-fi fantasy horror
Colorology, Saoirse Ronan, The Host, sci-fi fantasy horror
Reader Comments (24)
You know how I said Ronan has good taste? Well, that's more than just "picking classy scripts." Another challenge, one that you rarely see performers do, is to see if they can elevate more "audience pleasing" fare. If she elevates The Host (along with her other films) enough, it's certainly possible for one of those to get her in, but How I Live Now (Accent play, World War II, respected director), seems more clearly "Oscar Wheelhouse" and her next likely shot.
I don't mean to be a fanboy, and no I am not part of her PR team. But I must say . . .
@ Volvagia: I agree with you. From the outside, one would think Ronan is picking bad scripts (The Lovely Bones, Hanna - if you didn't like Hanna, and recently The Host - people won't like it because it has Stephenie Meyer's name) but each role she has played were probably the most coveted in her age range. That's what people who say she needs a new agent do not understand or refuse to acknowledge.
Her past movies, ever since Atonement, may not have been BO home runs or critical darlings, but her career hasn't slipped or taken a halt due to those factors. That's a sign of producers recognizing true talent, luck and having a good agent (thanks CAA and McFarlene). The Host on paper seems like a career suicide but one looks at the production team, the actors -for the most part, and the director/screen writer involved the choice of choosing The Host seems to make more sense.
I am glad to see other writers and other posters who understand this, who do not overlook such subtle distinctions and have the patience to research her projects and learn who's involved.
I have no knowledge of the project but - is it just me or does that trailer seem terribly amateurish? Still photos of faces slapped on backgrounds, and the eyes altered? I'm pretty sure I could do that in photobucket, for cryin' out loud.
Totally agree btw Nat w/ leaving her eyes alone. She already possesses a spooky/alien vibe like you say. (She looks almost unrecognizable here to me - I think because of the dark hair?)
I don't understand this theme in movies lately (the same occured in the Kidman remake of Invasion, I think?) where the notion of world peace, civility and kindness is always portrayed as a BAD thing, as the consequence of having been invaded by another race of beings. (And given what we've been dishing out to ourselves, each other and the planet all these centuries, I wonder if we don't deserve to be invaded. At the very least, whipped into shape.) But why is it that in the movies those positive results only come via another race, and are thus bad and our ugly, grungy, mean and destructive way of being as humans is so much better in consequence? I'm not being facetious, btw; I honestly do not understand it.
Even though I agree with Janice in that this looks pretty cheap, I'm just so relieved that that a trailer just teases you and doesn't actually give away the whole movie in 2 minutes. I'm sure that kind of trailer is still to come, unfortunately, but I'm happy with this for now.
The movie is still filming and won't be finished filming until April 20th. So I didn't expect much for the teaser trailer. I think it's just to get people interested.
BTW Nat, have you seen the second, shorter trailer for Hemingway & Gelhorn? It's up at Cinema Blend. Mostly footage that wasn't in the other two trailers but Nicole doesn't speak except in the voice-over. (I still suspect her voice was digitally altered for the voice-over but I could be wrong.)
Safe to assume that this will be as lame a variant on the body snatchers/alien invasion genre as Twilight is to gothic horror?
In defense of the teaser - I just saw The Hunger Games and it was as the first featured trailer. It looks a lot better on the big screen that it does on a monitor. It's not as sophomoric/amateurish/cheap when seen with the right screen size. I suggest everyone to go see The Hunger Games and see if you're lucky enough to have it as one of your trailers. The difference is like watching HDTV versus regular resolution.
@ Roak, If it's good then it's good. I don't think Andrew Niccol would be a cop out and not create his own vision given the similarities.
I agree with you Janice but I was going to say that it tries to replicate the Social Network trailer and fails.
Also I suppose I should read The Host (although I don't want to contribute to Stephanie Meyer's income at all) but she just needs to have the ovaries to write the novel where the Cullens and the vampires get massacred. She did suggest that there's a sliver of her that wants to do it. It's like she's showing signs of artistic maturity but suppresses it for puppy love and sales figures.
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oakley cycling glasses: Um...what? If you mean the ideal of the over muscled, greased up body builder, I'd agree on both counts. But I'd think there's MUCH more to masculinity than just being physically strong.
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