The Lovely Bones

[nite-owl]

A new posters and two clips.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/11/24...ely-bones-new-poster-and-two-new-video-clips/

 

[Raiden]

Never read the novel, but I was intrigued when I heard that Peter Jackson was attached to this movie. Looks interesting, although I'm not sure if it warrants to see it in theatre.

 

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[Dark Donnie]

Early Buzz

 

[zanos]

Judging by the reviews the film is drastically different from the book, which is good news for Peter Jackson. I was in fear for his career. If he had been faithful to the book no one would ever watch his movies again for fear of slipping into a coma during one of his films.

 

[KenK]

Judging by the reviews the film is drastically different from the book, which is good news for Peter Jackson. I was in fear for his career. If he had been faithful to the book no one would ever watch his movies again for fear of slipping into a coma during one of his films.

What's wrong with the book that being more faithful would hurt the film?

 

[Watson]

Judging by the reviews the film is drastically different from the book, which is good news for Peter Jackson. I was in fear for his career. If he had been faithful to the book no one would ever watch his movies again for fear of slipping into a coma during one of his films.

But it sounds like he [BLACKOUT]cut a lot of the rape and the actual death.[/BLACKOUT] If he really did he's taken away the emotional punch of the book.

 

[zanos]

What's wrong with the book that being more faithful would hurt the film?

Everything in the book.

 

[lime]

Can someone post that pic in HQ?

 

[Matt Mortem]

creepy

 

[DACrowe]

Very creepy. I haven't read the book, but everyone I know who has calls it amazingly disturbing, but this being PG-13 makes it sound like it won't be.

 

[danoyse]

But it sounds like he [BLACKOUT]cut a lot of the rape and the actual death.[/BLACKOUT] If he really did he's taken away the emotional punch of the book.

It was the most brutal part of the book, but the biggest emotional punches came from everything that happened after. I read that the most brutal aspects of that scene are not in the film - honestly, they don't need to be. According to the article I read Stanley Tucci and Saoirse Ronan (as well as her parents) were apprehensive about filming that scene, and it was kept to stay within the PG-13 rating.

 

[lime]

Can someone post that pic in HQ?

Anyone?

 

[lime]

Can someone post that pic in HQ?

Please, i really need that picture in HQ!

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Then they probably shouldn't have kept the same title of the book if it's not based on the book.

 

[danoyse]

Then they probably shouldn't have kept the same title of the book if it's not based on the book.

But it is based on the book?

 

[Watson]

It was the most brutal part of the book, but the biggest emotional punches came from everything that happened after. I read that the most brutal aspects of that scene are not in the film - honestly, they don't need to be. According to the article I read Stanley Tucci and Saoirse Ronan (as well as her parents) were apprehensive about filming that scene, and it was kept to stay within the PG-13 rating.

I'll be honest I haven't read the book in a loooong time, so outside of the killing I can't remember much about it. I just felt that it was so key in the book that it needs its due in the film.

That said I can definitely understand Tucci and Ronan not wanting to film the scene as graphically as it was in the book. Honestly I don't even know if I can see the film. I found the book fairly disturbing and upsetting.

 

[danoyse]

I just read it a few months ago. The murder scene is very brutal, even more so because Alice Sebold was actually raped at knifepoint in college, so she's unfortunately writing from experience. But the book is more about what happened afterwards and how it affected them all - it's the 'lovely bones' that grew around her murder, as it was written in the book.

You never get past the punch of the murder, which was pointless and senseless, but it's things like watching her sister experience the things she never got to and her parents falling apart at losing her, and knowing how close the killer was the whole time that were the real emotional punches of the book.

 

[Watson]

I didn't know that about Sebold. That's really sad. We just had two similar incidents near my campus.

I should probably attempt to reread the book in the future. Or try and sit through the movie (with lots of tissues handy).

 

[mclay18]

Well, Peter Jackson that there will be funny scenes in the movie. He said that this is still very much a drama, but says it won't be totally grim and downbeat.

 

[danoyse]

I didn't know that about Sebold. That's really sad. We just had two similar incidents near my campus.

I should probably attempt to reread the book in the future. Or try and sit through the movie (with lots of tissues handy).

Yes, it was in the notes after my copy of the book (which I just loaned to my sister). I believe the guy was caught and she testified against him. Her first book was about the whole experience. And obviously it's an event that changed her life forever, so this book was about how something like it affected everyone else's lives around this girl.

I nearly lost it in the book [BLACKOUT]when the dog showed up in heaven[/BLACKOUT], I have no idea why. That, and when [BLACKOUT]she danced with her grandfather.[/BLACKOUT]

 

[Watson]

Anything with [blackout]animals dying is usually upsetting[/blackout].

 

[danoyse]

Anything with [blackout]animals dying is usually upsetting[/blackout].

And it wasn't even that [BLACKOUT]the dog had died[/BLACKOUT] - it was just that the whole time no one knew where she was and someone had finally found her.

 

[lime]

Can someone post that pic in HQ?

???

 

[TLH]

Looks interesting. Despite early reviews being mixed I am still optimistic this will be great. Tucci should get a Supporting Actor nod.