New 'Blindness' Trailer Online
Filed under: Drama, Thrillers, Cannes, Movie Marketing, Miramax, Trailers and Clips
UPDATE: Here's the trailer in Quicktime quality.
Of all the films I'm looking forward to this fall, Blindness ranks fairly high up there. Canadian distributor Alliance has just made available a full trailer that proves to be fairly intriguing, as an optometrist (Mark Ruffalo) and his seemingly immune wife (Julianne Moore) cope with an inexplicable epidemic of sight loss.
I'm a sucker for most anything vaguely apocalyptic, and while this very well could turn out to be akin to watching the first act of Children of Men through a milk-filled mask (which I've done, mind you), the prestige behind the project* says otherwise. We have acclaimed screenwriter Don McKellar adapting Nobel-Laureate José Saramago's novel, with Academy Award nominee Fernando Meirelles directing a cast that also includes Danny Glover, Gael Garcia Bernal, Alice Braga, and Sandra Oh.
I must say, going off that taste and last spring's teaser, I still like the look, sound, and feel of this one, especially Moore's little retort (you know the one), and that's not to mention that any trailer which employs John Murphy's underrated score from last year's Sunshine to set a rightfully ominous tone is always fine by me. We'll get to see (sorry) what trials and tribulations await the world on September 19th.
*Not to mention Rocchi's review of the film from its Cannes world premiere.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
7-03-2008 @ 12:22PM
Rob Frenay said...
God, that looks great! I really hope the early press on this is wrong, I love Fernando Meirelles and the more I see of this the more excited I get.
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7-04-2008 @ 1:28AM
Stoker said...
I didn't think the second trailer for this movie could piss me off more than the first, but I was mistaken. This has the potential to do more damage to the public perception of the blind than any other film of the past decade.
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7-04-2008 @ 1:32AM
William Goss said...
I must've missed something here. Care to elaborate on how a work of fiction and greater parable for the human condition could cause the masses to somehow slight the sight-impaired?
7-10-2008 @ 1:51AM
kevin said...
does anyone know where to get the music that is in this trailer.
The music starts about half way through when Julianne Moore
says "I'm afraid to open them" This site mentions the sunshine movie? is this where the music is from? If so it does not appear a soundtrack for sunshine was made for sale to the public. any help or links to the music would be great and greatly appreciated!! Thank you
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7-10-2008 @ 3:32AM
William Goss said...
The score from Sunshine hasn't been publicly made for sale due to some legal issues, but a bootleg version - with the sound effects from the film remaining somewhat audible - has made the rounds in other corners of the web.
*cough*
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448134/board/flat/92819040?p=6
11-20-2008 @ 12:15PM
Michael K. said...
Hey, Kevin!
I know which one it is! Get me your mail-adress and i'll send it to you!
CU
7-19-2008 @ 9:53PM
Jonathan A. said...
This movie has no more potential to slight any person for their condition than a World War 2 movie does about the Jewish race - or about the Japanese people.
The reason behind the quarantine is the effect of blindness spreading due to an unknown disease. Any person with a disease that spreads through unknown means is placed under extreme quarantine as to avoid an epidemic.
Yes, the preview shows an un-sympathetic way of going about this - but it's a complete work of fiction. Has anyone seen Ultraviolet? Same thing. Disease and outbreak are quarantined by un-sympathetic people. This film is designed to show how disconnected we as humans can be... and ARE when it comes to things as such. Not all of us act as unsympathetic and uncompassionate as shown in the story - but a good portion of the human population is. This film (and the story) show just how disgusting humanity has become - but focusses on the good in the few that actually care, and how beautiful it truly can be.
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