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2007.07.31, 10:48 PM | #11 |
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I read something about the whole Japan connection, he was in Japan with his son and say some Godzilla toys and that kind of inspired him, whiiiich, in my opinion, is utter shit.
If you want "your own monster" they why not make it uniquely yours and not "inspired" (cough cough stolen) from another source? I love how people think they can just take from cultures and countries and that makes it "inspired" and not stolen, which it usually is. However, this entire trailer intrigues me. But the Japan connection pisses me off. Nowadays its like anything that is kind of weird or out there is connected to Japan. You have it in horror movies, thrillers, technological movies, its just silly how they always pinpoint Japan as this country that is so familar but yet strangely mysterious and exotic....;;shakes head;; if he had any balls what he really would have done is create a monster UNIQUELY American. Look into uniquely American history and culture and develop a monster from it, much the same way Mary Shelly created Frankenstein etc etc. Oh, I almost forgot this site: Slusho which is pretty much the only actual confirmed site part of the viral marketing scheme. Its kind of interesting...however, the English bothers me. Why would a Japanese website be almost entirely in English with the few exceptions of a couple buttons? It just doesn't make sense....and if the entire website is going to be in English, it will be in English and not half assed weird English which is on there, which I think is rather insulting and a bit offensive. |
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You are reading far to into this. You think it's offensive that an American movie, made by an American team have an American ARG site... in English.
I don't see your logic in this movie being 'stolen' from Godzilla. The fact that Abram's son picked up a Godzilla toy which inspired Abrams to create a new, fresh, American monster movie is one of inspiration, not plagiarism. There are hundred of monster movies, and I'm sure every single one of them were inspired in some way by the likes of Godzilla and Kong. Speaking of Kong, that was another influence Abrams brought up as an American franchise, but it was too cutesy and he wanted to make a bad, destructive monster.
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I'm not horribly offended, don't get me, I just thing the entire thing is stupid. It doesn't make a lot of sense, and I get your point about making the site in English for the English audience to discern clues from, but I still find the broken English going a little far, being borderline insulting. There are thousands of people in Japan who are fluent in English and if if someone is going to create a website, I don't see why it couldn't have perfect English, I've seen my share of Japanese websites with flawless English sections.
And my point about the monster being entirely original and inspired and all that crap is simply that, it isn't going to be original, its going to probably be inspired by an amalgam of previous monsters, but I still think its lame how they are using Japan. And I never made a claim, on the contrary, you did. I said IF you wanted to make a truly original monster... I just think half the stuff that is coming out of hollywood these days is crap and this is no exception, but thats just me. |
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As for using Japan, I don't think they will. The only link it will have with Japan is that Rob, the main guy was planning on moving to Japan. Hence why they served sushi at his party and one of the guys was wearing a 'Slusho' T-Shirt which happens to be the codename of the movie and a company Abrams has used in Alias and Lost too.
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I just checked this thread for the first time today.
i had no idea what this cloverfield was. I'm a huge fan of LOST and I'm excited. I checked out the trailer on youtube... now, onto those sites!! HERE! HERE!
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I know that Slusho is tied to the movie. Hence why I said
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2007.08.19, 06:20 PM | #18 |
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from my understanding, those ethan haas links are completely unrelated. i was reading thru the responses to the blog and it's about a RPG....good advertisement, apparently.
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Officially titled 'Cloverfield'. New Trailer.
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yeah, just saw it today. Not I'm really looking forward to it.
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