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Project: Cloverfield
donovangelonardo:
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--- Quote from: zerodrone on 26 Jan 2008, 04:35 ---I refuse to watch this movie because using a giant lizard as an allegory for being at ground-zero on 9/11 is one of the few things I would genuinely attach the word "pretentious" to.
Seriously, guys.
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Um. Except it's not an allegory for that.
At all.
The ONLY thing any member of the production team said about it being like 9/11 is that they used how the buildings fell, with the clouds of dust and stuff, as a VISUAL REFERENCE for what would happen in their movie when the buildings fell. Way to spread misleading, misinformed information.
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I dunno, Gojira got away with it in the 50's, no one really considers that pretentious. To quote Abrams, the idea is catharsis; you're seeing images that definitely evoke 9-11, yet the thing creating those images is this inconceivable abomination. It's combining real terror with unreal circumstances, which is the cornerstone to the carthartic, enjoyable fear that filmgoers take from horror films.
It's like vampires as analogy for rape and zombies as metaphors for the destruction of the human spirit via capitalism or whatever; serious themes+presentation in kind of ridiculous contexts=highly effective and fun
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