I’m hyperventilating. Scarlett Johanssen as a cross between Esther Williams, Jean Harlow, and Carole Lombard? Her voice! The tough-dame voice that no longer exists in cinema anywhere? Tilda Swinton as Hedda Hopper? George Clooney as a pre-verbal Clark Gable type? Josh Brolin? Jonah Hill? Frances McDormand? Ralph Fiennes?
And Channing Tatum … tap dancing in a white sailor suit, not to mention what happens at minute 2:04?
I need to forget this movie exists because otherwise I can’t bear the wait.
All of this. All of these actors. It’s too much. Should have known that Channing Tatum would be a perfect fit with Coen Brothers, but the tap dancing sailor routine is beyond greatness.
And Clancy Brown’s side eye at George Clooney at 0:47.
The side-eye is so so so so funny.
And Clooney’s ridiculous Caesar hair!
Plus Channing in a sailor middy. I honestly can’t take it.
BTW, your Channing Tatum wallpaper is the best. I keep getting distracted by it. The hat, the salute, omg.
You just made my Friday afternoon. I can not wait to see this!
O.M.G.
It’s too much. I can’t handle it.
New site background image. Because I can’t take it.
Too much.
Scarlett’s line put me over the edge.
hahahaha
We are all over the edge right now – awesome!
Also: she’s so beautiful she practically already IS a mermaid. In real life. Very happy to see her in a Busby Berkeley synchronized swimmer environment. Hard to believe it hasn’t happened yet.
(well, because Hollywood doesn’t do synchronized swimming musicals anymore, more’s the pity.)
You could put some in the script you’re writing…
Just sayin’
And a chase on horseback. No CGI. And a guy jumping a high barbed wire fence with a motorcycle.
… starting to sound like an Ed Wood movie.
Dream sequence!
Jackpot!
There actually is a scene where they watch a show about sharks at 3 o’clock in the morning. They could suddenly be IN the show or something like that.
Now you gotta ask yourself if the dream sequence/fantasy sequence sharks should be Katy Perry-looking things on land or guys with those swimming pool fins on their backs and the shark gloves and fins you see in Walmart. If you want to go sync-swimming then probably the fins/gloves in the water stuff rather than Katy Perry ones.
Katy Perry’s “left shark” has my heart forever.
As my cousin observed on FB right after it happened: We all in our lives, at one time or another, have been Left Shark. Embrace our Left Shark-ness.
I love how Scarlett is this absolutely gorgeous woman in a green bathing suit – to die for – and then when she opens her mouth she sounds like she rolled out of a speakeasy on the Lower East Side. Just like Harlow.
For me, pretty much any X would complete the sentence “I love how Scarlett X.”
But that voice is great.
And Clooney’s Caesar hair! Tilda’s hats…
Hedda Hopper! Strange coincidence – my cousin Kerry is playing Hedda Hopper in an upcoming TV pilot. Hedda Hopper is suddenly everywhere. As someone drenched in the “Hollywood Babylon” era that occurred 40 years before I was born … I couldn’t be happier, even though Hedda Hopper was a witch.
Dovetail with my recent Rita Hayworth project (handed in the draft on Monday – yay!): Rita Hayworth was so afraid of Hedda Hopper, and so did not want to be written about by the tabloids, that once she had a little bit of power and muscle, she banned Hedda from her movie sets.
and yes to Scarlett. She had a hell of year last year – with Under the Skin (in my Top 10 for last year) and Lucy (which I also loved.)
She’s doing cool cool shit. I mean, she always has, but it’s great to see her carve her own path.
It’s cool to see her do mainstream stuff too and big movies and superhero movies. But Under the Skin and Lucy were WEIRD and totally non-commercial. Especially Under the Skin – and it was so gratifying to see that movie gain momentum. It stayed in the multiplex for months. Crazy.
Star power.
Under The Skin I loved. Lucy – a bit too much of what South Park refers to here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8mTwCRZLWA
But it’s kinda like The Dark Knight – where one can just jump to the Heath Ledger scenes. And there are a lot more scenes with Scarlett in Lucy than Heath in Dark Knight.
hahaha South Park – great clip
and yeah, Lucy is no Under the Skin (but then again, what is?)
I liked how in both, though, she played … pawns, almost? People unaware of who they are, what is happening … it was an interesting “double-feature” – where she’s not just playing a gorgeous romantic lead, where we get to learn about her in a conventional way – but a woman lost in the storm of events.
Interesting choice for her.
Wouldn’t it be cool to be newly omnipotent like Lucy at the end of the movie? I’d be mostly benevolent, though I would have cream pies just fly out of nowhere from time to time and hit Hillary. And flocklets of humming birds descend upon Donald Trump and weave his hair into various topiary shapes… Free floating lipsticks smearing Bob Costas whenever he’s on camera so he always looks like Mick on the cover of Some Girls.
It’s probably better that I’m not omnipotent.
// Free floating lipsticks smearing Bob Costas whenever he’s on camera //
Now this I need to see.
Hey, it’s that guy….. The curly headed guy at about 1:19 was on Supernatural S1, Wendigo – he played the younger brother searching the woods with his sister.
Didn’t notice. Too blinded by Channing.
I’ll go back and check.
Oh yeah!! Now I see him!
My God, these SPN actors get around.
This sounds like the story of how John Wayne, who once played a Roman centurion and the first Christian gentile, was targeted by Communists first from Russia, then from Burbank, then by Chairman Mao in Vietnam, for assassination. If Clooney is in it they surely do not want to admit Communists were a real threat, so they’ll probably cartoonize them into a benign joke instead of murderers of 100 million human beings. Otherwise it looks compelling.
Of course it looks like a joke. The whole thing appears to be a joke! I can’t wait.
Plus Channing Tatum at 2:04.
I may be misreading your tone – it appears to be your first time commenting? so, I’m sorry if I am – but don’t explain to me, of all people, John Wayne OR the horrors of Communism. I am well-versed in both of those topics – been writing on both for years.
I’m so angry that we have to wait for this. Why is it not in theaters right now.
And huzzah at the Coens returning to screwball. They are golden-age good at it, which is appropriate given the subject of this movie.
I don’t know how I’m going to wait either. It seems unfair.
//And Channing Tatum … tap dancing in a white sailor suit//
Fleetweek, Magic Mike, and Gene Kelly.
Right!?!