11.16.09 ED NORTON HAS A REALISTIC ACCENT
Here’s the trailer for Leaves of Grass, starring Edward Norton… and Edward Norton. Edward Norton plays his own twin, but instead of being a softball-sized growth on his shoulder that was removed like Andy Garcia, he’s a pot dealer from Oklahoma.
Edward Norton is Bill Kincaid, an Ivy League classics professor, who “returns to rural Oklahoma to bury his dangerously brilliant identical twin brother, only to discover that the brother he believes to have been murdered has lured him home to involve him in a doomed plot against a local drug lord. [/Film]
The trailer begins with Norton as the pot-dealer brother, speaking in a preposterous country accent which seems like the typical, condescending treatment Hollywood gives movies about the country. But considering the positive reviews, and given that Norton generally picks good projects, and director Tim Blake Nelson is actually from Oklahoma, I’m gonna give it the benefit of the doubt and assume there’s more going on here than we can see from this. Also, I think the “grass” in the title might refer to marijuana. Because that’s what old people call it, you see.
[via /Film]
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There are 14 comments about:
ED NORTON HAS A REALISTIC ACCENT
But where’s the buttsecks?
/Waltman reference. Topical!
This may be the best film Edward Norton has ever written.
Pioneers, oh pioneers (of the butt)
Gee…so which guy in the picture is the drug dealer?
speaking in a preposterous country accent which seems like the typical, condescending treatment Hollywood gives movies about the country
I dunno, sounds purdy close tuh me…
*spits tobacco juice on ground, wipes mouth on flannel sleeve, heads to pasture to milk cattle and check fences*
Threadjack
Fekster, you check out R.A.’s new book?
/Threadjack
Tim Blake Nelson wants people to think that Oklahomans talk like that. Less folks might assume he’s retarded.
I liked Ed Norton more when I thought he was a Nazi.
I liked him better when i thought he was a retard who let priests sodomize him.
Dor sho gha! It’s out??? Why is He such a retrad about these things???
*rushedly updates Festivus wishlist on Amazon*
Ooh, the only way I could want to see a movie less than “Ed Norton plays his own twin” is the promise of two identical Bill Paxtons. And possibly the inclusion of Woody Harrelson. How’d he miss out on a pot movie?
GAME OVER MAN! GAME OVER!
/Bill Paxton
What’s with the 90s alt-rock soundtrack in the trailer? If Chris O’Donnell shows up, heads will roll.
The longer haircut and facial hair make for the same magical transformation medium-length hair, a goofy baseball cap and an outsized Hypercolors shirt made for in American History X.
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