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LauraGigs:
Well, it could have been that Heath's death affected them so deeply that it subconsciously affected their choices of trailer dialog?  I think even that's taking it too far.  The film is about immortality (aka cheating death) after all.

I think Brokie fever is affecting us here.

Mikaela:
I don't know what Brokie Fever is, exactly - but what I do know is that the movie industry is cynical, and that it's all about making the bucks, - and also that Gilliam has shown he's able to do decidedly un-classy things. (Ref. his diatribe against Michelle Williams). So I think the choice of that punchline does indeed deliberately reference Heath's death (and the way his role was "resurrected" by Depp and others).

Gilliam/the distributers/whoever is responsible for the trailer may even tell themselves that in riffing on the main star's mid-shoot death and in using the interest and attention the film gets specifically because of that, they are actually honouring Heath and his art. After all, it's a way to get more people come watch his final film.

But when all is said and done, I personally think it's about the money. They use what they have. Cynically. Or maybe just realistically.

The film itself still looks cool, though, all marketing ploys aside. That's the main thing.

optom3:

--- Quote from: LauraGigs on August 07, 2009, 06:59:44 pm ---It's crazy:  right at 1:52 when Heath says "Voila" — he looks so much like Johnny Depp there.  He tightens the muscles around his cheekbones exactly as Depp does sometimes.  Serendipitous since Depp would later help take up the role... they're hard to tell apart in this trailer!


Heath did look a bit like Depp in his brunette moments.



--- End quote ---

I agree 100% with the Heath/Depp similarities. It is all the more poignant as Depp was my all time favourite and most talented actor until seeing BBM and Heath. I find it pulls so much on the heart strings, as I realise that after a brief fling with the "in posse" Depp finally took root in France with his wife and children. There he seems to live a rural idyll away from all the trappings of celebrity and the constant siege laid down by the paparazzi.
I thought Heath would ultimately choose that lifestyle, leaving it only for very special projects.
Both actors had a taste of the celebrity lifestyle and neither seemed at ease with it. A wonderful and vastly underrated actor, Dirk Bogarde also made Southern France his home. His part in the caretaker was a masterpiece, yet he too for different reasons took refuge away from all the major trappings of the hedonistic life style of so many artists.

Sophia:
thanks for posting the trailer but it is with a better sweet feeling I am watching it. its mixed emotions between joy and sadness. first seeing heath makes you go crazy  :D and then suddenly your awareness a wakes you with johnny depp and it gives you confusion. :-\

loneleeb3:
It just makes me sad!  :'(

I want to see it but it'll be hard.
It wasn't like that in the dark knight because you realy had to look hard to see Heath but in this you can see him so clearly.

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