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meganbmoore) wrote2013-11-17 04:31 pm
meganbmoore) wrote2013-11-17 04:31 pm
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movie trailers
Trailers for the only 2 movies currently on my radar to try to see in theaters:
Maleficent:
I like how they managed to convey the creepy gothic imagery from the animated movie to live action, and the visual feel of the movie overall. I'm iffy, though, on the fact that Aurora's actress is 15 and and Philip's is 24. I know Hollywood (and equivalents worldwide, really) likes to do that for characters who are supposed to be close in age, but it stands out more when one of them is too young to have a driver's license in most states. I think the ages of the leads in The Secret of Moonacre were around the same ages at the time, but that was heavily implied future romance, as opposed to explicitly romantic on screen, as I'm sure this will be.
(And I wonder if they're going to do "Once Upon a Dream." Which is THE MOST ROMANTIC THING EVER when you're 8, but then you rewatch it as an adult and it's "OMG PHILIP HOW DID I NOT KNOW YOU WERE A CREEPY FOREST PERV. Childhood crushing is destroyed.")
And Frozen:
I have very mixed feelings about this one. On the one hand, in and of itself. I really really like the idea of Frozen and think it looks fun. On the other hand, it bugs me as an adaptation of "The Snow Queen." Based on what I've heard about it, they went "good girl, bad queen, snow, road trip" and ditched the rest. While the final product may (will probably?) have more similarities than promotional material would imply, it's pretty unrecognizable as an adaptation of the source material. I mean, say what you will about Disney's adaptations of other fairly tales and the changes they made, they're pretty easily recognizable in relation to the original stories. Another thing about it being billed as an adaptation of "The Snow Queen" as opposed to original material is that then I have to dwell on how they took out all the women (which there are a reasonably large number of) but the Gerda and Snow Queen equivalents and replaced them with men, as seems to be the case from the trailer and character lists.
Maleficent:
I like how they managed to convey the creepy gothic imagery from the animated movie to live action, and the visual feel of the movie overall. I'm iffy, though, on the fact that Aurora's actress is 15 and and Philip's is 24. I know Hollywood (and equivalents worldwide, really) likes to do that for characters who are supposed to be close in age, but it stands out more when one of them is too young to have a driver's license in most states. I think the ages of the leads in The Secret of Moonacre were around the same ages at the time, but that was heavily implied future romance, as opposed to explicitly romantic on screen, as I'm sure this will be.
(And I wonder if they're going to do "Once Upon a Dream." Which is THE MOST ROMANTIC THING EVER when you're 8, but then you rewatch it as an adult and it's "OMG PHILIP HOW DID I NOT KNOW YOU WERE A CREEPY FOREST PERV. Childhood crushing is destroyed.")
And Frozen:
I have very mixed feelings about this one. On the one hand, in and of itself. I really really like the idea of Frozen and think it looks fun. On the other hand, it bugs me as an adaptation of "The Snow Queen." Based on what I've heard about it, they went "good girl, bad queen, snow, road trip" and ditched the rest. While the final product may (will probably?) have more similarities than promotional material would imply, it's pretty unrecognizable as an adaptation of the source material. I mean, say what you will about Disney's adaptations of other fairly tales and the changes they made, they're pretty easily recognizable in relation to the original stories. Another thing about it being billed as an adaptation of "The Snow Queen" as opposed to original material is that then I have to dwell on how they took out all the women (which there are a reasonably large number of) but the Gerda and Snow Queen equivalents and replaced them with men, as seems to be the case from the trailer and character lists.