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Would he think it was a good film? Probably not.
Would he have enjoyed watching it? ABSOLUTELY.
Sidney was always ghostface https://imgur.com/a/xxGTKbu
(Yes I know the original post was made years ago). It's quite apparent that the poster was made before the artist could see what the characters would end up looking like on screen. The way he handled that by having them face away from the viewer was pretty clever, I think.
It makes me want them to retroactively add "that doesn't look very scary! More like a six-foot turkey" somewhere near the end.
I know the original post from 8 years ago wasn't 100% serious, but for posterity's sake I'll mention that it's a parent's obligation to feed their kids and not the other way around. Especially when said kid is both going to school and holding a job of her own. Dad can start bitching if Alice becomes an adult and quits both school and work, but until then he can heat up his own supper.
They could be going by general year rather than by date. Say, if the previous incident was 2020, then during Christmastime 2024 you could say "it's coming up on the 5th anniversary" because soon it will be 2025.
I agree his obesity is somewhat overstated, but it's significant to note Brando's weight because it created problems for the production. Basically Brando did not arrive prepared in the shape expected of him, but then he also insisted that he not be <i>shown</i> fat either, when Coppola suggested they could lean into it and present his character as having indulged himself. Brando put them in a position where they had try to present him as muscular when he wasn't in the actual shape for it.
I recently saw this for the first time and it did remind me a LOT of Blade Runner, so I'm glad I'm not that only one.
My dad has always maintained that Bond's "She's just dead!" later on in this same movie is the greatest one-liner in all history.
Not sure I'd go that far, but it takes a lot to impress my dad!
Commenting years later, but this almost sounds like someone in the production was making a cheeky pun reference to both "The Ring" and Wagner's "Ring" cycle.
Likewise, this is one I don't see Hitchcock pulling off without making some significant adjustments to the script. There aren't what you'd call "set pieces" aside from the climax, and the whole thing relies on a low-key naturalism while Hitchcock was all about being a technician of suspense.
You could say Hitchcock had already made his own variation of a "neighbor paranoia thriller" with Rear Window; different as that movie is, you could see it as something of an optimistic, Hitchcockian cousin to Rosemary's Baby.
Yeah he really shouldn't be trying to peddle used merchandise as new!
Half the reason the movie exists the way it does is to explain how Iago appears in the Aladdin TV show
I had no idea they had character posters for this movie (or any posters at all aside from the bat symbol, come to think of it). I appreciate the post!
I feel like a De Palma Psycho II would've been more or less the same movie except with a lot of boobs, and Mary would've been played by Nancy Allen who would've showed her boobs at some point. Also lots more splitscreen, spinning camera moves, and split diopter shots. All involving boobs.
It's just some low-key sarcasm/sass from Tanaka pertaining to Bond's immature concerns over his partner's looks (going by his reputation it's obvious Bond is asking about her because he wants someone to put the moves on and not for any reason related to the mission). Sort of like, "Oh, and what're you gonna do about it if she's ugly? That's what I thought. Get serious!"
It's her natural accent. She grew up in Los Angeles.
The reason Shatner never directed another movie after this (the reviews weren't good but they weren't "career-ending" bad by any means) is because he literally could not finish the film. They had to cobble together the climax almost out of thin air in the editing room.
Luke saw her wearing the slave girl outfit on Tatooine so he knew she had it, she had it goin' on indeed.
Seriously though, I think he mostly just presumes that being his twin Leia would've most likely inherited the Force like he did, but I quite like the idea that her being able to hear his call at Cloud City was a sign she could use the Force.
Sure, but the production history of this movie's been documented pretty well so we pretty much know for sure there weren't any major changes during filming.
In fact there arguably weren't any truly radical changes at any point in the production - some of the early script drafts had differences in settings and characters (the Emperor's throne was at a city planet (this would've been what Endor was a moon of), Admiral Jerjerrod was more openly antagonistic with Darth Vader, there were two Death Stars under construction, etc.). But the story beats and overall tone were pretty consistent all throughout. There was always Jabba the Hutt on Tatooine, there were always Ewoks (it's true they were derived from a forest planet of Wookies, but that was during the drafts for the original Star Wars, not Return of the Jedi), and Darth Vader always sacrificed himself saving Luke from the Emperor.
The title was changed because there was some discussion within the production that it didn't really fit, and after the first trailer was revealed some fan reaction echoed that sentiment. They then ran a survey which revealed more people preferred "Return" over "Revenge" in the title, so they went ahead and made the change. It didn't accompany any change in direction for the film.