Fair point.
I do wonder if this is set within the same universe as Close Encounters. Or maybe that's already been explained, but for there to be a Disclosure, there first needs to be an event that is big enough to blow the lid off the secrecy. It would make sense if that event were the event at the end of Close Encounters.
Or maybe not. Just speculating. This seems to be a different phase of Spielberg in that his more recent movies have tended to have more and more horror elements as compared to his earlier movies.
I wonder what his TrekBBS user name is?
I dunno now. I feel like I'm slightly less excited. It's not a case of revealing too much, just a case of what they did reveal seems less interesting. I'll definitely still go see it but I'm skeptical of its potential profundity.
Yeah, I agree. I kind of get the feeling that the marketing campaign behind this is not great, and whoever put the trailers together must have had a heck of a time straddling the line between making something interesting and revealing too much. I'm hoping it just means the trailers themselves are not an accurate representation of the movie's quality, but even after seeing those two trailers, I'm just getting generic vibes from this. It's just feeling like a tough sell to me.
I look forward to watching this movie when it comes out.
Empire Magazine (via io9) has character descriptions of the main characters (edited to remove io9's dumb commentary):
- Emily Blunt plays Margaret Fairchild, “a journalist who career-pivots into weather.”
- Josh O’Connor is Daniel Kellner, “a cyber-security expert who’s stumbled upon highly-classified knowledge, placing a target firmly on his back.”
- Eve Hewson plays Jane Blakenship, “Daniel’s girlfriend, facing her own fallout from his quest for the truth.”
- Colin Firth is the bad guy, Noah Scanlon. He’s the “leader of Wardex, contracted by the government to keep the biggest secret in the cosmos.”
- Finally, there’s Colman Domingo as Hugo Wakefield, who is also an employee of Wardex but is described as “an advocate for disclosure. And, possibly, a stand-in for Steven Spielberg himself.”
I think Emily Blunt's character gets a visit from the aliens when she was a child(Spielberg Childhood innocence). They disguise themselves as deer or something that looks like a dream to her so they can take her to their ship
She's the catalyst to full disclosure of aliens. Colin Firth's character wants to keep it quiet
She's the catalyst to full disclosure of aliens. Colin Firth's character wants to keep it quiet
I think it's likely to be something far more simple than that. Animals all have increased perception due to their various senses and their increased sensitivities. We know they are sensitive to electromagnetic activity. If you're ever outside when an Aurora occurs, listen to the sounds that surround you, and you might hear wolves howling. They are reacting to the increased electromagnetic activity. This same thing can alter bird migrations. So then it's reasonable to assume that the deer in the movie are doing something similar, possibly being attracted to the source.
Mmm. That brightly-lit house in the woods obviously (IMO) represents a spacecraft. The animals are the aliens, hiding behind some sort of perception filter. Especially if the girl is Blunt's character as a kid, that means those sequences are memories or flashbacks, which can be as literal or figurative as Spielberg wants them to be.
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Either that or he's lost his marble /s
Spielberg was on Colbert last night with an exclusive clip:
Between the clip and their discussion about the film (which Stephen has already seen), my interest has increased. I'm still cautious about expectations but I'm definitely curious about it.
Between the clip and their discussion about the film (which Stephen has already seen), my interest has increased. I'm still cautious about expectations but I'm definitely curious about it.
I'm very curious about this June 11 I over here.
Hoping to not be disappointed
Hoping to not be disappointed
Spielburg's modern movies look like somebody spilled milk all over the camera lens to me; I was never his biggest fan but I enjoyed CE3K back in the day. The trailers for this one do very little for me despite a lifelong interest in the subject; I think I'm personally done with it until like, France/China/Russia announce the Saucer People or whatever.
I saw the recent trailer for this movie the other day, and it actually felt like watching a trailer for an entirely different film. I'm still curious about it, but the marketing between the teaser and what I saw the other night gave me a little whiplash.
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