'Push' Shoved; 'Precious' is the New Title for Sundance Smash
Filed under: Drama, Independent, Awards, Sundance, Lionsgate Films, RumorMonger, Oscar Watch
Just a couple of weeks back, it seemed that only film bloggers could bring themselves to crack jokes about how Dakota Fanning's super-power sub-performer Push might get confused with the award-winning and far-from-fantasy Sundance title Push: Based on a Novel by Sapphire -- and lo, most did.Well, hopefully, they've gotten that out of their system, because attached today to the release of Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail is a trailer that now refers to it as Precious: Based on a Novel by Sapphire, after the protagonist's preferred nickname.
Having not seen the film -- which our Eric D. Snider referred to as "unsettling and bleak," though "ultimately triumphant and hopeful" -- I can't help but think that the change not only avoids confusion with that other film's eventual DVD release (an admittedly unlikely scenario), but it adds a sense of the personal that was lacking before (having seen the trailer, which is not yet online, I still wouldn't know what "Push" referred to). Wouldn't you rather want to know who this Precious is exactly and what she's about?
Better yet, the very word itself lends a hint of the positive, which could very well make the difference between some Academy voter either picking it up or passing it over in their mounting pile of screeners in favor of something a bit more obvious like So The Holocaust Kinda Sucked.
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2-21-2009 @ 10:22AM
Alan Bacchus said...
Precious is a better title. I saw the film at Sundance, and whenever I'd tell people about it, they'd say 'that sci-fi flick with Dakota Fanning??'
http://www.dailyfilmdose.com/2009/01/sundance-report-4-push-based-on-novel.html
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2-21-2009 @ 2:07AM
jbyrd130 said...
meh. I just hope this, along with the T. Perry/Oprah involvement, doesn't result in a smultzy studio cut...
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3-03-2009 @ 12:58PM
Melba said...
I read the book. I actually am fortunate to have a signed copy by the author.
This book is an emotional roller coaster. The book is so vivid it will be interesting to see the words come to life. I read the book over ten years ago and just thinking about it still hurts. This book hurt to the core at times that I had to but it down.
It will be an experiance for all of us to have someone who normally have our stomachs hurting from laughter to have our stomachs turning from DISGUST.
The book lets us know that those "fast tail girls" were created by monsters.
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5-20-2009 @ 3:43PM
Sylvia Harris said...
I live in Milwaukee, WI... when can I see this movie on TV? How can I found out when it is being aired on cable again..
I REALLY want to see this...... Is there a DVD out yet?????
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5-15-2009 @ 7:23PM
William Goss said...
It does not come out in theaters until November. It has never been on TV. I suspect the DVD will be out early next year.