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Baz Luhrman is doing Great Gatsby? That cracks me up because there are so many billboards/signs in Luhrman's movies and there is already one built in to Gatsby.
The person on the left of The Warrior poster (not sure if it is Tom Hardy) looks like Harry Connick, Jr [link]
Yes it is, and I see what you mean in that picture, but not actually.
Eh, I'd say that for "What These People Need Is a Honky" you could go back to James Fenimore Cooper.
Ha! I was just thinking "In what world were The Leatherstocking Tales published after 1911?"
Whitey McCracker Saves the Natives is a trope that goes back a lot further than last century.
Heck, there's even Proud Noble Roman turns Primitive German Tribe into Mighty Fighting Force. AKA How Several Emperors Got Their Job.
Does anyone want to read the script of Battleship? So far it's really boring. I've been spoilt, and apparently the aliens are here for...dun dun dun... water. Pretty impressive they made it this far, without, you know, already completing their mission.
Saw Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy last night, and wow, the writer and the director really did take the novel and made the story as slashy as possible while still nominally keeping it as subtext, and then hired British actors who communicate mostly by glowering at one another. The whole movie is filmed in Pleiadescope™.
Hee.
Now I REALLY want to see it.
Avengers promo (at bottom). Apparently the art is fanmade, not official. The trailer I would love to see full-sized.
Heck, there's even Proud Noble Roman turns Primitive German Tribe into Mighty Fighting Force.
Ah, but they then took the Germans back to Rome, rather than converting to the worship of Odin (? who would the Germanic tribes at that time be worshipping?), and teaming up with them to fight off Rome, or some other invader.
Hmm, maybe the Roman colonists in Britain count: they end up as British as the local tribes, in the end. By which argument one could claim King Arthur is a honky...
The whole movie is filmed in Pleiadescope™.
ah ha ha ha ha! Now that's a selling point. I'd even go see a Kissinger bio if it were filmed in Pleiadescope.