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I think the sub/real plot was that of Mel Gibson as the reverend who had lost his faith in God...and how he got it back again. The name of the movie plays into that, his whole speech in the middle where he askes Merrill "Which kind of person are you? The person who sees the signs and believes in a higher power at work, or the person that sees it all as coincidence and believes that they're totally on their own?"
I think that this was what it's mostly about.
Edit: Beren, you beat me! I thought you were "trailing" tonight!!
I think that's a good interp. But, it kind of conflicts with the "dream" aspect of the whole thing. The young girl asks "Are you in my dream?" And, the whole thing plays out like her dream.
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Whoa. I didn't interpret that line like that at all. I always thought that she was dreaming during the whole movie and she had a "sense" about stuff that would happen. There's one scene where she hugs her brother and he says something like "I won't let anything happen to you" and she seems scared and he says "Did you have another dream?"
I always took that line as her knowing what was going on before hand...that was a subtle little character thing...
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That's part of what helps Mel Gibson regain his faith at the end...it's just another one of those things, like his wife's last words, the bat in the right place, his son's athsma...all these things that worked together to save them at the end. He chose not to see them as coincidences, but as signs of a higher power there to protect and help them.
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They stole the music from somewhere. If nobody posts it, I'll tell you later. I know for a fact that several people on Hatrack will recognize it.
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But the other symbols were barely there (time-wise), and explained in the dialogue. The glasses of water never were, except in the dreamy sense of combat with the aliens.
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Isn't it true that trailers usually have music from other movies on them? Because the soundtrack is done almost last, they have to use other music for all trailers.
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Looks to me like the "creatures" in the woods are red... That explains their hatred of that color, and also we do get a few glimpses... Also, at one point in time we see Phoenix in a large clearing surrounded by red objects. Maybe they consider anything red themselves, and feel the need to save it.
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I think my favorite trailer music ever was in the trailer for TTT, when they redid the Requiem for a Dream music.
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I own signs, It's a great movie. And the glasses of water are mentioned and talked about an incredible amount of times, how could you have missed it fallow? They talk about it in the book store, the girl talks about it when she is giving water the the dog, while the sherrif is over mel gibson walks around the house collecting glasses of water but then gives up because there are so many. It's all through it.
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The best trailer in the world is Robin Hood with Kevin Costner. The music was perfect and fit the mood. Every time I see that trailer I HAVE to see Robin Hood again--and I HATE the movie. It ranks for me as one of the most annoying films ever made. I hate it! I hate it! I hate it! I hate it! I hate it! I hate it! I hate it! I hate it! And yet, the Robin Hood trailer is one of the best works in filmography (is that a word?) in my opinion. Any trailer that can make you want to see a movie you know is horrible is a good trailer indeed.
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Yeah. Some of the best trailers as of late include the latest Spiderman 2 trailer (wow. What a trailer!), the Eternal Sunshine trailer (I don't know, I just liked that one), and I've really taken a liking to the trailer for The Terminal. Posts: 6415 | Registered: Jul 2000
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The trailer for GARDEN STATE is one of the best trailers I've seen in recent memory.
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And nearly ALL trailers use music from other films for the reason stated above - the Score is the last thing to be completed. So yes, almost all trailers ' steal' music.
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really? *slaps forehead* I'll have to watch it again. Thank's for pointing that out.
I noticed there were a lot of refs to Mel's character as "father" in the family sense. That got buried in there under the alien stuff, too. did you notice those?
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The village is somewhere in America, and decently recent (or present times). If you freeze frame on the part where William Hurt is talking to the class you'll see a picture of George Washington hanging up on the right side of the frame. An alphabet (with captials and lowercases) lines the top of the room along with some paper chain links that the children clearly made. There are also several pictures/paintings on the left I can't make out.
quote:Dude, when Harry screams "Expecto patronum" at the end of the PofA trailer, I almost wet my pants.
Every time.
For me it is the part where Hermione grabbed Ron's hand. Not exactly following the book, but hey, these kid actors are growing up fast so we might as well speed things up a little. Expect full make out scenes in Order of the Phoenix.
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Fallow, I think you might be confusing the use of "Father" as a title for a reverend. I don't recall his children calling him "father". It's okay if you don't get the movie.
"She threw up all over herself. Right then, I knew it was a miracle..."
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I can't understand why people find "Signs" scary.
That said, my guess here is that, in the upcoming movie, the creatures are in fact the mature form of the little red plant that all the villagers go to great lengths to pull out. Moreover, given the lengths to which the director's gone to establish paranoia, I am absolutely CERTAIN that the creatures are not actively hostile, but merely victims of a misunderstanding.
Actually, that sounds plausible. So plausible that I'll be really bummed if I already know the ending!! Posts: 6415 | Registered: Jul 2000
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I think that the "aliens" in The Village are actually invisble bulls driven crazy by the color red (which is why they get rid of that color). Their handler gets infuriated when the villagers screw up by leaving red out and paints red marks on all the doors of the people he hates so the bulls will trample and romp through just those houses. Joaquin Phoenix must be trained to be the greatest matador of all time by the local blind village recluse, who happens to be an ex-matador. After Joaquin defeats the bulls, he has to have a big sword duel with the handler, who turns out to be one of the villagers.
Or this might all be bullsh**. Posts: 1423 | Registered: Sep 2003
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quote:The trailer for GARDEN STATE is one of the best trailers I've seen in recent memory
agreed.
the first one, without any dialogue. The second trailer is still great, but lost some of the edge of the first one. Or maybe just some of the newness. Regardless, the movie looks amazing.
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*bump* Friday!! I'm going to see it and I'm the type that will go in all nervous and have the pants scared off me just cause I'm tense already and jump at every little thing.
quote: I can't understand why people find "Signs" scary.
I can't understand why people find any other movie except Signs scary. Aliens terrify me to a degree that nothing else comes close to. Maybe that's why I'm a scifi junkie. Most other "scary" movies don't scare me (even most other scary alien movies). In fact, the only movie I've been scared by *other* than Signs in the past few years was Silence of the Lambs.
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I don't watch horror movies if I can avoid it generally, but no movies terrify me more than aliens movies. Even Independance Day scared me quite a bit the first time I saw it (and occationally still does if I make the mistake of watching it when alone or in a nervous mood). The reasoning is simple: most other scary movies, when you think about it, couldn't really happen. They are way unrealistic, overblown or just silly. Aliens movies COULD. We're not really in space, we don't really know whats out there. There could very well be every type of Alien we've ever imagined and plus somejust waiting for us out there. And every alien movies could very well come true. Many of them are based on actual rumors and conspiracy theory type things, which are probably bollux, but you never know...
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Yes, there could indeed be malevolent aliens out there who are capable of intergalactic travel but can't quite manage breaking and entering.
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