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Just scared my cat too. Leapt out of my lap using all ten of her front claws for traction when the guy made his loudest noise.
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Very creepy and well done. It just goes to show that you don't need blood and guts and gore to be creepy. Hitchcock understood this. I wish more modern filmakers did. Posts: 5879 | Registered: Apr 2001
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Farmgirl, It's black and white. A man is seated toward the right side of the frame, with his back to te camera. he's resting his arm on a table beside him (you can't see the pen and pad by his hand, at first). Across from him is an empty metal chair.
He seems relaxed at first, then he tenses. You can hear somewhat distressed breathing and... noises as his hand moves out of view, toward his face. More bad, creepy noises. It sounds like he's choking, or being injured somehow. Then, his hand jerks back to the table, smeared with a dark substance (presumably his own blood) and the pen that had been in his hand slides across the table. He gurgles more, tries to stand and collapses out of frame.
Then river comes into frame, very close on the right side. Her hand is also (presumably) bloody, as her fingers rest lightly on the screen. She's wide-eyed and sort of frightened, wise-child innocent-looking. She whispers, "I can see you."
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Farmgirl - It's creepy because it's inferred violence. We don't see exactly what is happening, we just know that something awful is happening.
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Not sayin' I really like creepy stuff. It can be good, but it's not really my thing. But dear Joss, this will get people talking, and that's a very good thing. It's already been linked all over my Friends List on LiveJournal, and there's a superlong thread about it at the movie site. Can't wait to see what else they come up with!
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Farmgirl, I get creeped out really easily. As in, I got a cold feeling just watching the trailer for The Village. But while this is objectively creepy, it didn't seem to be personal. I didn't look over my shoulder, worried that River was there about to stab me with a pen. I'm sure it helps that I "know" River from watching Firefly and so she doesn't seem quite so threatening as she would if I watched this clip with no context.
It's also helpful that the person dying and the person who's actually behind the camera are probably both evil Alliance people who did this to River. They deserve it, those jerks.
And you're right, xnera, this is great advertising for the movie.
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I'm done with Firefly guys, please don't shoot me. Maybe if I had the DVD's and could watch it uninterrupted I could get it. But I'm just confused and not able to get into the show at all, because of the time it comes on. Six o'clock on Friday - prime dinner making time, and mom and Wes are usually just getting home and the kids and puppies are excited to see them and I just miss half the dialogue in the show every week. Firefly and I are not meant to be, the relationship is just not working out.
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(I'm really just kidding. I have managed to keep many friendships alive despite clear diferences of opinion in religion, sexuality and... now... entertainment.)
*sigh*
We still love you, sweetie. Posts: 9293 | Registered: Aug 2000
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Trying an experiment on my LiveJournal. Included a link to the vid, saying it was "cool, in a very 'That's creepy!' sort of way", but didn't mentioned it was a Firefly/Serenity thing. I then immediately followed up that post with ANOTHER post, this one friendslocked to the noisiest Firefly fans on my friends list, begging them NOT to mention Firefly/Serenity if they comment about the vid. I want to see if we can get people talking about it who aren't already fans.
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Good idea, xnera. I haven't actually seen the video mentioned outside of a Firefly-related setting yet, which sort of defeats the purpose of viral marketing, unfortunately.
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ANOTHER ONE!!! This is from the VERY FIRST SESSION, so we see River before the Alliance started messing with her brain.
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Just posted this in a thread at the official movie site:
quote:John Dowses? Interesting. I mean, I know it's an anagram, but I can't help but think of Orson Scott Card's Alvin Maker books. There's a scene with a divining rod in there; in another scene, a character calls the pseudo-science phrenology (which features in the book) "dowsing for brains". Given that this is a viral marketing campaign, it kind of feels like we're dowsing for the truth here. So I love the wordplay of the anagrammed name, even if it's not intended (though Joss is so brilliant I wouldn't be surprised if it is).
LOVED the clip, though I wish the audio synched up better to the video. Maybe it was just my computer?
(the clip was uploaded by a "John Dowses", which is an anagram for Joss Whedon.)
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Very cool. It looks like they'll be gradually revealing River's backstory via the clips, in a way that intruiges newcomers and gives us Firefly fans some wonderful new canon material.
That last line ("Would I still be allowed to dance?") is heart-breaking.
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The clip of the first session is almost harder to watch. We've never really seen River before (except for the brief glimpse in Safe of a very young River) as a healthy, happy young woman.
That there on the screen is what they took away from her. Monsters.
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I'm almost glad I overslept this morning and was late for work, because it meant I was able to download & watch the video at least once before heading to work. I would have been going nuts if I couldn't watch it until I got home! (my work computer has no sound, go figure). The three sessions we've seen so far have made my brain explode into a thousand thoughts and questions.
Did River say a name when she was talking about the guy who died on the table? I wasn't listening very carefully and didn't catch it. Just wondering if the name (if there was one) was the same that was mentioned in Session 1.
Also, can anyone refresh my memory and tell me how long it took Simon to rescue River after receiving her letter? I'm thinking it was at least a year, yes? Because I'm wondering if this session is the one that was recorded right before she wrote the letter to Simon.
I'm also wondering whether or not she's been operated on yet. She certainly seems a lot closer to the River we know than the optimistic, happy girl we saw in session 1. But I also think that a lot of her behavior changes could have come with conditioning and not surgery. We see the psychiatrist try to beat her down by saying Simon's too busy for her and stuff like that. I also think she might have had some natural ability to "read" other people, as she says as much in the first session. So, my thought is that the Academy might try to enhance her skills as much as possible via conditioning or hyponosis before trying surgery. Just a thought.
Another thought: How did the Academy/Alliance discover her in the first place? Did someone tip them off, or do they monitor everyone, looking for promising candidates? It just makes me all kinds of curious.
Looking forward to seeing more sessions, even if they are heartbreaking!
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Supposedly, ifilm has four of them (in total, meaning there'd be just one more). I hope there's more than four, though, because they're really, really good.
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And another! I haven't seen it yet because my internet is a little sluggish today, but anyway if you scroll all the way down to the bottom of this website, there is a link to another one. Session 165, I think.
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Hey, xnera, thanks for the podcast link. I've been looking everywhere for a recording of the music from the end of The Message and episode seven of the podcast had just that. Not perfect, of course, there are smudges where the voices were, but easily good enough that I could separate it from the rest of the stuff and use it to learn the piece well enough to record a cover of it.
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God, these are sad, sad, sad. And I am planning to watch Firefly tonight, too... now these are going to be in my head.
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That music is one of my favourite moments in the series. I've wanted to learn to play it since I first saw the episode. Posts: 10886 | Registered: Feb 2000
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