Cloverfield Director To Remake Let The Right One In

[CelticPredator]

Thanks figs!

 

[Figs]

Thanks figs!

No problem!

It sucks because I really want to watch the movie again but will hold off until I can get the version with the proper subtitles. I think at lunch tomorrow I'm going to try my luck with Best Buy.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

Granted, I haven't read the book or seen the original--yet--a remake doesn't really bother me. No matter how bad it could potentially be it won't invalidate your copy of the original. I'll at least wait until a trailer to decide if it's good or bad.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

Granted, I haven't read the book or seen the original--yet--a remake doesn't really bother me. No matter how bad it could potentially be it won't invalidate your copy of the original. I'll at least wait until a trailer to decide if it's good or bad.

 

[Sarge 2.0]

It only happens in those two instances though? I'd say the unsettling effect results from not knowing wtf was going on with her face.


Which scenes?

I remember Eli's face "morphing" in other subtle ways based on the camera angle and lighting. Sometimes she appeared to be a kinda cute little girl, sometimes she appeared older than Oskar without the [blackout]old woman thing[/blackout], and once I remember her face looking distinctly animalistic after she licked Oskar's spilt blood of the floor, right before the [blackout]old woman shot[/blackout]. I seem to remember the whites of her eyes going black, but that could just be me misremembering.

 

[Sarge 2.0]

Oh man, irony of ironies...Lina Leandersson, the brilliant young actress who put forth such a wonderful performance as Eli, has said in an interview that her favorite movie is "Twilight".

Well, she is a 12 year old girl after all. It's to be expected.

I just hope she realizes that Eli could tear Edward Cullen to pieces.

 

[StrainedEyes]

I just watched this for the first time and it is a really great movie. I love all the vampire lore like being invited in and having surrogate people go out into the world. It's a shame how Twilight is messing up the classic vampire for a new generation.

Eli could destroy everyone, lol. That pool scene was amazing.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Twilight isn't messing up anything. There can be more than one take on the Vampire myth.

Anyway, Let the Right One In shouldn't be remade.

 

[Sentinel X]

I just watched this for the first time and it is a really great movie. I love all the vampire lore like being invited in and having surrogate people go out into the world. It's a shame how Twilight is messing up the classic vampire for a new generation.

Eli could destroy everyone, lol. That pool scene was amazing.

[BLACKOUT]The pool scene is one of the best horror scenes in recent movie history. I actually felt scared for the boys (even though they were the villains) because I knew that Eli would brutally rip them apart...and indeed she did. And after all the gore and violence is done we see Eli pull Oskar out of the water and its a really touching scene. I just love how we never actually see Eli murder them...we just see the after effects[/BLACKOUT]

I think the director Tomas Alfredson is really passionate about the GLBT community and school bullying. He is already doing another film that seems to have similar themes from the premise...and it involves a transgendered individual and comes out next year

 

[elgato]

I've only seen the movie once so my memory of it is a little jaded.

I really didn't suspect Eli

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of being a male

Now that I think about it, I do remember a scene where Eli

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was changing clothes or something and for a breif moment there was a shot of her genital area. I recall seeing female genitalia, so Im not sure how Eli can be a male.

she's of course a [BLACKOUT]girl[/BLACKOUT]!! as simple as that! when she tells oskar "

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i'm not a girl

" she's refering to him as an asexual being, she's a vampire...¬¬!!

 

[The Dark Defender]

Oh man, irony of ironies...Lina Leandersson, the brilliant young actress who put forth such a wonderful performance as Eli, has said in an interview that her favorite movie is "Twilight".

Well, she is a 12 year old girl after all. It's to be expected.

I just hope she realizes that Eli could tear Edward Cullen to pieces.

 

[StrainedEyes]

she's of course a [BLACKOUT]girl[/BLACKOUT]!! as simple as that! when she tells oskar "

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i'm not a girl

" she's refering to him as an asexual being, she's a vampire...¬¬!!

Eli is not

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a girl, he is a eunuch. That is the significance of the scars.

 

[Sarge 2.0]

she's of course a [blackout]girl[/blackout]!! as simple as that! when she tells oskar "

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i'm not a girl

" she's refering to him as an asexual being, she's a vampire...¬¬!!

You weren't paying attention at all were you?

Eli is [blackout]a castrated prepubescent male[/blackout].

 

[Red Cherry Lips]

Oh for the love of God. Leave the original alone. It just came out last ****ing year.

Word.

I love this film. Best vamp film I've seen. Probably ever.

 

[Figs]

Well, I checked out Best Buy(didn't have any copies whatsoever) and then FYE in the mall(only had the **** version I alread own). I think my only hope to get the version with the proper subtitles is from Ebay.

 

[KenK]

Why is Dark Defender trying to induce seizures in all of us?!

 

[elgato]

You weren't paying attention at all were you?

Eli is [blackout]a castrated prepubescent male[/blackout].

Well, I wasn't paying attention, and that surely must be in the novel because i didn't get it in the movie

 

[Crook]

You didn't question the shot of her [blackout]lower-regions, which were visibly scarred[/blackout]?

 

[CrimsonMist]

You didn't question the shot of her [blackout]lower-regions, which were visibly scarred[/blackout]?

Well, in his defense, the shot of that was very quick. I actually had to rewind and watch it a few times to notice it. Then i assumed that because she was a vampire, [BLACKOUT]she couldn't reproduce in the traditional sense, so her sex organs just crapped out. Some vampire stories have that, where the body, in adapting to the vampiric changes, craps out. The scars could have somehow been a result of that.[/BLACKOUT]

And then i read that it was actually because [BLACKOUT]she was really a castrated he[/BLACKOUT]

 

[nite-owl]

More join the cast.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/11/02/elias-koteas-cara-buono-and-sasha-barrese-join-let-me-in/

Elias Koteas.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

Plus the production of the film has started.

 

[Sentinel X]

You weren't paying attention at all were you?

Eli is [blackout]a castrated prepubescent male[/blackout].

....its not like the director put it out there to make it obvious. The shot of her genitalia is probably a quarter of a second long and when she tells Oskar "I am not a girl",one can allude that she is talking about being an inhuman vampire. Other than that there isn't anything obvious in the movie to show this...I personally found out about it online on imdb. I also heard that they left out many details regarding her guardian, supposeively he was a pedophile who had a mutual relationship with Eli and would hunt her down a meal as long as she gave him a little something something....or so I read (which make sense because she didn't care when [blackout]he died[/blackout].) I'd like to read the book myself because thats disturbing

 

[PLAS]

loved the original, a remake is not necessary

although, it could be interesting to see if they explore some of the other themes on the book (the pedophiliac guardian, the zombies, Abby's backstory)

 

[elgato]

it would be unnecessary, you already figure out Hakan's pedophillic's intentions, besides, it would have taken a 400 min movie to make it completely accurate, and well, we want a movie, not a book in images, and the crap director from the new version said it was going to be open for "all audiences", so, don't hope we'll see an even more shocking film...

i still think it's going to be ****...u.u, but i'll give it a shot when it comes out

 

[elgato]

Eli [blackout]was a young male who was castrated[/blackout] which is apparently elaborated on in the book, but hinted at in the movie when [blackout]you see that Eli has a scar where the genitals should be.[/blackout]

That's why I'm apprehensive about the remake. Matt Reeves, in spite of his supposed intentions to remain more faithful to the book, seems pretty dead set on making the character [blackout]concretely female. Part of the nuance of the original was in the ambiguity of the characters gender, since "Eli" is a gender neutral name, whereas "Abby" is decidedly female, since it is short for Abigail.[/blackout] And he also seems pretty dead set on making it purely a love story, which is a fairly superficial understanding of the original film. What made it so great is that it [blackout]may not be just a love story, and Eli could just be seducing Oskar to be her next helper.[/blackout] And really it wasn't so much about love, it was more about despair.

wow...completely agree, i also think most american audiences (and i'm referring to USA, Mexico, etc, because America's not only the USA ) wouldn't completely accept a movie that's "so faithful" to a book that talks about [BLACKOUT]open pedophillic sexual relationships, fully androgynous characters (reffering to the castrated character of Eli) and little kids having adult-like relationships[/BLACKOUT], that's why i think they will try to do a pseudo-intelectual Twilight, with kids and snow