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Post by sophielovessam on Jan 18, 2011 14:51:10 GMT -5
Here's a couple of cool GS things I found whilst searching 'Ginger Snaps' on twitter... LH, This one is for you haha Okay, so I think someone here highlighted the similarities of Ginger Snaps and Jennifers body. I've never seen Jennifers Body but here is a scene I got from someone's tumblr, that looks alike in the movies If anyone else has any cool things they would like to share
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Post by lordhowl on Jan 18, 2011 21:17:38 GMT -5
lol. I loved the vid Sophie, if only because I did read a reviewer who said that Ginger Snaps was about on the same level as a very good episode of Buffy. I don't quite agree, because GS starts you out in the "real" world, that is a fictitious world that's a close facsimile of ours, and then during a real world type of conflict, it introduces a fantasy element.
Whereas Buffy, (the show, not the movie), is plainly not the "real" world. It doesn't coax you into fantasy, you have to strongly suspend disbelief for it to be worthwhile. GS also coaxes you into fantasy & horror within 20 minutes.
Jennifer's Body: they were aiming for the same formula in GS. That is with Jennifer and Needy having largely the same relationship and the same tragic conflict that Ginger and Brigitte had. They weren't exactly sisters, but they were inseparably close. Unfortunately, Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried simply did not come near having the same chemistry as Katy and Emily. That's just one of the problems the movie had.
The shot you put up, of the girl walking down the hall, street, or whatever, while everybody turns their heads in awe is actually something done in a lot of movies, so many, in fact, that it has a name: "the power walk."
But there was something different in GS that made it work: that was the fact that Ginger was really a late bloomer, a wallflower, before that scene. Nobody had ever seen her show off her attractiveness before, so it surprised everyone and it represented a passage for Ginger. Whereas Jennifer in JB was popular before, during and after that scene, so it really didn't work on any level, and it was in there only because GS used it, and director didn't know what she was doing. They were really shooting for GS, but they missed the entire point.
There were all kinds of misfired scenes in that movie, though I will say, Megan Fox didn't do a bad job with her role. The scripting and directing didn't help her, but it was a better performance than I expected.
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