Silence | Dec 23rd (Limited), January (Wide) | Trailer on Page 11

[Plain Old Tele]

This doesn't really say anything about the quality of the movie, but I wasn't a huge fan of the trailer. Felt very fractured and random the way it was assembled. 

[baumer]

It's Marty, so it'll be good for sure.  But I'm not sure this is the kind of film I'm going to want to sit through.  Looks bleak and depressing.

[The Futurist]

Scorsese s movies about religion always do a killing at the BO.

 

 

 

[ban1o]

What is this movie about. Jesuit preachers come to preach to Japanese people and the Japanese people rejecting it? MMM the plot seems odd. 

[4815162342]

@MrPink

 

White men go to Japan story incoming, prepare your wallet.

 

 

Also, I found it interesting that Garfield/Driver/Hinds all had Spanish accents, so technically, when the characters are speaking English, they are really speaking Spanish in the narrative setting.

[vc2002]

A rather confusing trailer. This is Martin Scorsese, yet the jumping music and scenes made it look like a random drama flick directed by nobody. This looks like a tough sell like Hugo. In fact it will probably end up being another Hugo, a critical success but a financial disappointment.

[eXtacy]

Looks too much of a religion bashing film. Not really appealing to me. Especially if its 3 hours long as people say here.

[Merkel]

3 minutes ago, eXtacy said:

Looks too much of a religion bashing film. Not really appealing to me. Especially if its 3 hours long as people say here.

 

 

It's not that at all. The book is a profound reflection on the nature of faith, written by a Japonese Catholic.

 

It's extremely moving

[Arlborn]

10 hours ago, Merkel said:

It takes place in Japan for the most part (and in Macao, then a Portuguese holding) and the three main characters are Portuguese

 

10 hours ago, Merkel said:

I think they're going for English with a Portuguese accent, but I must say it sounds much more like a Spanish accent. And none of the three actors was able to correctly pronounce Ferreira. His name was not Ferrera

They are supposed to be Portuguese?! They didn't sound Portuguese at all and that "Ferrera" slip is very annoying.

[Merkel]

All the non Asian characters you see in the trailer are Portuguese (Garfield, Driver, Hinds and Neeson)

[Valonqar]

Not impressed to be honest but this is not my type of a movie so...

 

Not a fan of Portuguese accents at all. Either go full Tarantino and have them speak Portuguese or just drop it. Especially since the Japanese guy speaks with perfect Queen's English not with Japanese-flavored one.

 

Neeson obviously has a small role as rumored.

 

Trailer is a bit on torture porn side.

 

Don't see commercial prospect. As already pointed out in other posts, if this had Leo than yes but no Leo, no boxoffice. 

 

Driver's ears, though. May be the real money shot of the movie. Damn. 

Edited November 23, 2016 by Valonqar

[Merkel]

The Japanese characters do speak English with a Japanese accent. 

 

I do expect several sections of the movie to be spoken in Japanese, though. The role of the interpreter was set to be played by Ken Watanabe at first, so the role should be reasonably substancial

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

1 hour ago, eXtacy said:

Looks too much of a religion bashing film. Not really appealing to me. Especially if its 3 hours long as people say here.

It doesn't look like that at all.

[Valonqar]

Gifs are emerging:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 23, 2016 by Valonqar

[Goffe]

Looks interesting. I don't know if I can take 3 hours of Andrew Garfield, though.

 

One observation, the trailer edited like it's an indie movie. Not a bad thing, just odd.

 

[Jonwo]

It looks good but I suspect it won't be a commericial success. 

[Valonqar]

More gifs:

 

 

 

 

Production values are top notch, though. But, damn, 3 hours of heavy subject matter and no stars (save Neeson but in a small non-action role). Needs awards push which may not be guaranteed for such a late release and apparently missing some important precursor screenings. 

[Joel M]

The trailer has some gorgeous images but it felt weird, not very impresed. It's still Scorsese though.

 

I also don't get all the doom and gloom about its BO performance. I thought this had half the budget of the Leo-Marty movies. It doesn't even need to reach Hugo numbers to be a success.

[grim22]

7 hours ago, 4815162342 said:

@MrPink

 

White men go to Japan story incoming, prepare your wallet.

 

 

Also, I found it interesting that Garfield/Driver/Hinds all had Spanish accents, so technically, when the characters are speaking English, they are really speaking Spanish in the narrative setting.

 

I think they are supposed to be Portuguese. @CJohn's ancestors.

[Jake Gittes]

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There began an intense collective effort guided by Emma Tillinger Koskoff, the film’s producer, to make the project materialize. Winkler worked through dozens of legal disputes attached to the project. Randall Emmett, a producer, secured new funding, and in 2013 Scorsese and some associates went to Cannes and returned with $21 million in distribution commitments. “I don’t think he’d ever done that before,” Koskoff told me, “but for this picture he has done a lot of things he hadn’t done before.” He would direct the picture without a fee. All the principal actors — Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson — have action-movie pedigrees but would work for Screen Actors Guild “scale” or for greatly reduced fees (“a pittance,” Neeson called it, uncomplainingly). Paramount Pictures signed on as the U.S. distributor in 2014.

 

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Step by step, “Silence” got made. The picture Scorsese saw in his head on the bullet train took 27 years and $46.5 million to realize.

 

I imagine as long as it does $40-50m dom and $100m WW it won't be seen as bad all things considered.