The official Jonah Hex thread.

[ross2287]

I'll be seeing it, but keeping my expectations low..like, The Losers kind of low. which is too bad. I always liked this character.
It's funny, but of all things there is one in that trailer that bugs me the most. As someone who has been around horses quite a while, they aren't the brightest of animals, and you can't even fire a gun in the vicinity of a horse without it flipping out, let alone two huge gatling guns on either side of it's head, and expect to control that animal. But there he is aiming the guns and mowing down people. lol.

Maybe the horse is deaf.

 

[theMan-Bat]

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[Thundarr]

I've never read a Jonah Hex comic before, but I gotta say after watching a recent trailer for the movie that I'm looking forward to seeing this film. Looks like a totally bad ass movie.

 

[TheVileOne]

Why the **** does Jonah Hex talk with the dead?

 

[Rumpy Bulge Dubz]

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and for real, just freaking tell us why you replaced Terrence with Don, WHY? MARVEL? WHY?...........................

 

[Webhead2006]

well we dont know if that is a full on thing he is doing in the film. or the trailer is just misleading us to think that. didnt someone say on another page this could be a scene in film where folks are talking about the myth of hex and not what he actually is/does?

 

[theMan-Bat]

Yeah. The script explained that powers were just rumors and myths about Jonah Hex. And Director Jimmy Hayward explained that Jonah Hex himself may be larger than life, but more in the mythic sense than the actual superpowered one. "I think Jonah Hex, he's been shot so many times, the legend is he's got one foot in the grave and one foot here on Earth, and so we approach it by everybody else's version of who Jonah Hex is," Hayward continued. "At the beginning of the film, we bring out the John Albano (creator of the character and first Jonah Hex writer) quote, 'He's a hero to some, a villain to most, but where ever he goes, they speak his name in whispers.' So at the beginning of the film, he's a scarred bounty hunter, just a horrible guy, this murderous guy. You tear the layers off, you see that there's this normal guy in there."
http://scifiwire.com/2009/07/sdcc-cl...p-the-supe.php
And we are told from the people that saw the early screening of the film that in the beginning of the movie three old men are siting around a campfire telling mythical legends of Jonah Hex and in the trailer we hear one of the old men speaking of Hex having a power as a rumored legend saying "Some say he..". Jonah Hex being almost mythical with legends and rumors about him as a supernatural demon definitely harken back to the original comics written by John Albano. Jonah was almost a personification of the night and the outlaw's fears and own imaginations.

And Ace of Knaves, who read the script, posted:

Hex doesn't have the ability to talk to dead people... going by the script i read it's just folklore/rumours/wives tales.

He is a legend, a myth. Things get changed up when people talk about rumours and myths.

I've read the script... Hex doesn't have any powers whatsoever. Now unless they have changed that part of the script, which i highly, highly doubt, then no, he won't have any powers.

Hex is a myth to people in the West. A wives tale.

 

[Webhead2006]

yea i knew someone said that before.

 

[TheVileOne]

That's not the case according to the early reviews.

 

[theMan-Bat]

According to the early reviews from people that saw the early screening, in the beginning of the movie "Three stupid old men sit around a campfire and spell out the story of Jonah Hex, and holy cow it does NOT END."
And also in the trailer that we've all seen we hear a voice which is presumably one of those old men speaking of Hex having a power as a rumored legend saying "Some say he..".

The people who gave those early reviews to Aint It Cool News obviously didn't get the point of the three old men sitting around a campfire telling stories about Jonah Hex. They didn't get that the old men are telling mythical legends and rumors about Jonah Hex and the powers are just part of the old men's mythical story. They didn't put two and two together. They were not that bright. This reminds me of the people who saw Batman Returns and thought Catwoman literally had 9 lives/supernatural powers. They didn't get that it was only metaphorical and part of her cat motif.

 

[TheVileOne]

Catwoman didn't literally have supernatural powers?

 

[Rumpy Bulge Dubz]

^got me, the Batman Returns I saw, the damn thing had 9 lives. It's freaking BURTON for christ's sake, the guy doesn't metophorise nothing, what you see is what you get. In Burtons world, Penguin was a freak of nature, and Catwoman was a zombie/cat hybrid who was licked back to life by a bunch of cats after falling out a window

my god I actually like this movie?

 

[Doctor Jones]

Relax, don't like it too much.

 

[Webhead2006]

was watching the supernatural finale tonight on cw and caught a nice hex tv spot.

 

[Rumpy Bulge Dubz]

think we'll get a trailer with Smallville tonight?

 

[theMan-Bat]

Catwoman didn't literally have supernatural powers?

^got me, the Batman Returns I saw, the damn thing had 9 lives. It's freaking BURTON for christ's sake, the guy doesn't metophorise nothing, what you see is what you get. In Burtons world, Penguin was a freak of nature, and Catwoman was a zombie/cat hybrid who was licked back to life by a bunch of cats after falling out a window

my god I actually like this movie?

No, Catwoman wasn't supernatural, she didn't die and she was not brought back to life by the tongues of cats. The Batman Returns script says:
Her fall is (luckily) slowed by a protruding flagpole
with the smiling Shreck cat logo on its flapping flag.
Then she (luckily) lands in a deep snowdrift.
http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/batman-returns_shooting.html
In the movie her fall is slowed by four canvas awnings enabling her survival. Then she lands on snow. The cats revive her from unconsciousness by biting her fingers. She awakens with amnesia. She did not literally have 9 lives. She never actually died. The lives thing was metaphorical and part of her cat theme.
Tim Burton explained in the Batman Returns commentary: "The ambiguous nature of the Catwoman. You start out when you see the creation with the cats coming around and it's not supernatural but we feed into the mythology of cats and 9 lives and all of that sort of thing, so in the same way with Batman, wanting to keep him sort of mysterious, we sort of treated the same idea with Catwoman a little bit and not come right out with it. It's not supernatural."

 

[Rumpy Bulge Dubz]

I couldn't care less what Burton stated in whatever commentary, if it wasn't made obvious in the movie, it's not true.

It wasn't made obvious that it was a metaphor, however, he sure as hell went out of his way to make it look like she was a zombie/cat hybrid. Therefore, she is

and explain Penguin also. What does Burton have to say about him? His blood turned to black goo due to living in the sewers? Because the guy didn't come off as a full blown human to me

 

[theMan-Bat]

I couldn't care less what Burton stated in whatever commentary, if it wasn't made obvious in the movie, it's not true.

It wasn't made obvious that it was a metaphor, however, he sure as hell went out of his way to make it look like she was a zombie/cat hybrid. Therefore, she is

No, things do not have to be made obvious in films. It was intentionally ambiguous but not supernatural. You should care what the director has to say if you really want to understand his film because you obviously misunderstood it.

and explain Penguin also. What does Burton have to say about him? His blood turned to black goo due to living in the sewers? Because the guy didn't come off as a full blown human to me

Penguin was human, just deformed. Penguin always looked deformed with a huge beak for a nose and a penguin shaped body and walking with a waddle, Tim Burton naturally expanded upon this. Penguin had Syndactyly on his hands which added to the penguin motif with hands that look like flippers. Penguin didn't have black blood. Penguin had a black/green bile fluid that discharged out of his mouth. In the end of the film when Penguin's injured he's vomiting bile out, and he's also bleeding and his blood is red.

 

[theMan-Bat]

was watching the supernatural finale tonight on cw and caught a nice hex tv spot.

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[Rumpy Bulge Dubz]

not bad, I am slightly more interested now that I'm hearing he doesn't actually have supernatural abilities to summon the dead. Still wish they would have found some way to give him his eye though

 

[Webhead2006]

i wouldnt be surprised if there is another tv spot for hex during smallville tonight.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

I saw a Hex trailer near the end of Smallville. It looked better than the first one that popped up on the Hype. I'll be careful not to get my hopes too high.

 

[theMan-Bat]

This aired on CBS during Survivor on Sunday night:
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A different variation on the theatrical trailer. It's good to see them doing more Jonah Hex promotion now on TV.

 

[Webhead2006]

yea

 

[GoblinWhirlwind]

So Hex has no power whatsoever? I actually liked the shot of him reviving the guy in the cage