WELCOME HOME ROSCOE NORTON
02.12.10The Tim Blake Nelson-directed Leaves of Grass has a second trailer. Edward Norton plays identical twins and it premiered to glowing reviews at the Toronto Film Festival last year, but I’m not sure whether to trust those. Lord knows the magic of Toronto could cast a rosy glow on anything.
An Ivy League professor (played by Edward Norton) is lured back to his Oklahoma hometown, where his twin brother, a small-time pot grower, has concocted a simple scheme to take down a local drug lord.
I don’t know how I’m supposed to take this. Is that accent supposed to be for real? It seems really campy, but then at times almost like it wants to be taken seriously, like Nicolas Cage. I’m just surprised anyone has the balls to play identical twins after Van Damme did it in Double Impact. You can’t repaint the Sistine Chapel, dude.
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Why did they make him taller than himself? That’s not how identical twins work.
Ah, Double Impact. Starring Bolo Yeung as Donkey Kong. Y’know, i’m convinced Van Damme has played twins in at least half his fucking movies. I don’t care if imdb says it’s only one other.
what does that say about you when the best accent you’ve done in any of your films is retard?
See, you tell me Edward Norton, Keri Russell and Richard Dreyfuss are going to be in a movie together, and I’m giddy with anticipation. Then you show me this trailer, and I want to put a nail through my left testicle. Got whiplash from the abrupt change.
Spoiler – look close at the ivy growing on the wall’s of Professor Norton’s school…
so, this is what adaptation looks like without the irony?
Dere’s two of dem!
If Norton’s American History X character* had an identical twin, that would be a double impact.
*was CGI used in that movie? Norton looks harder than a coffin nail in that but just weedy in everything else. That he missed out on that year’s Best Actor Oscar to Roberto *rolls eyes* Benigni is just typical.
I live in Oklahoma, and let me assure you that accent is dead on.
Why is it that Millenium studios trailers make every film, no matter its quality or genre, look like cheap B movies? They seriously need to get a different person to edit their trailers. Who actually puts “Academy Award winner” above the names of character actors with small roles anymore?
But my favorites are their action movie trailers (especially Rambo and the expendables), as in those they basically just take every single second of action in the film and haphazardly edit them together with no rhyme or reason to it. Plus they tend to be way too long. Case in point:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkAx6pBT2Ok
I can’t explain what it is that makes them so awful, but I think it has something to do with tempo. They linger on shots just slightly too long in the trailers, which gives everything a stilted and awkward quality. Plus, while they get the main plot details across, they never really build a narrative with the trailers themselves. As a result all their movies based on the trailers look awful (even the good ones, like “Bad Lieutenant”)