Release date: September 25, 2017 Purchase link: Zavvi (Pre-orders will be live around 6PM UK time on Sunday September 3rd) Price: £15.99 Notes: Gloss finish with debossed title
It's something to give people something to complain about so that people won't find something else to complain about.
If the art inside was in colour, it would be the wrong art, or something else would be wrong with the steelbook.
I don't think I've seen a thread on here about a steelbook where everybody is happy with every detail.
Steelbooks should have a menu.
"Hi can I take your order?"
"Yes. Can I please have the 4K/3D/2D with the full gloss, debossed title, embossed character, art related to the film, colour art on the inside, poster art on the back...damn I'm forgetting something... how much is that so far?"
"That will be £34.99"
"What? How about for black & white art on the inside"
"We could make it £29.99 but then we also have to take away the art that makes sense to the film"
"What?!!" How do I get this with everything on it?"
I've just pre ordered this despite it not being available until tomorrow apparently. Can't order L.A. confidential though which is suppose to be live today
I've just pre ordered this despite it not being available until tomorrow apparently. Can't order L.A. confidential though which is suppose to be live today
Not watched many George Clooney films and this is one of the many.
Maybe because I'm not a fanboy and never understood the comparison made back in the day with the one and only Cary Grant.
Anyway, of the few films of his that I've seen, I admit to having enjoyed some of them - including RETURN OF THE KILLER TOMATOES, THREE KINGS, FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, UP IN THE AIR and THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX.
As for the influences on the film - apart from the Ancient Greek epic poem quoted in the intro - Homer's 'Odyssey' - I was happy to read that one on my favourites films from the early '40s is cited too - SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS:-
From American Myth Today
"The title O Brother, Where Art Thou? is, in fact, an allusion to another movie. In Preston Sturges' 1941 film Sullivan's Travels, the title character is a wealthy Hollywood filmmaker who (in the midst of the Depression) decides to make a film about the suffering of the "common people" in order to redeem himself from the usual commercial pap he has been wont to produce. Drawing his inspiration from fictional novel, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," written by "Sinclair Beckstein"-a clear allusion to the "realist" novels of Upton Sinclair and John Steinbeck-Sullivan sets off in hobo garb in order to experience first hand some "common people" of his own. By a series of highly comic accidents, Sullivan eventually winds up on a prison chain gang in the South. In what is taken to be the real climactic moment of the movie, Sullivan and his fellow convicts are seated in a black church where they are allowed to watch a "picture show" for some much-needed relief and entertainment:
As he watches the film (it is a Disney cartoon) Sullivan comes to the realization that "common people" don't want to be told of their own suffering. They want to be entertained; they want to laugh. As both the title and this scene are directly referred to in O Brother, Where Art Thou?
the film, innumerable critics have taken to applying Sullivan's epiphany wholesale to the more recent film. While Sullivan's Travels is indeed an important source here, several key features of the original are left out in this analysis. Indeed, while the fictional filmmaker Sullivan decides against making that serious epic of human toil, the real filmmaker Preston Sturges does something perhaps more significant. Sullivan's Travels is a comedy, and it is a wildly funny and entertaining one at that. But as O Brother, Where Art Thou? alludes to this film, Sturges is also alluding to something with his title, namely Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Like that book, Sullivan's Travels is a satire-though in this case the target is the kind self-serious attitude to be found in much of the documentary style work of the 1930s."
Influences from The Classics also seen in THE WARRIORS, for example . . . in that case not Homer's 'Odyssey' but Xenophon's 'Anabasis' (March of the Ten Thousand/The March Up Country'):-
"The Anabasis is his story of the march to Persia to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and
take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the ensuing return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C and March 399 B.C."
Intro from Project Gutenberg EBook.
As for the steelbook - looks fine with that interesting framing border which, together with those scrolls above and below the title, mean something I presume or just to reinforce the old-fashioned vibe of the title quote found in literature as far back as The Bible up to Shakespeare and way beyond.
Embossed title is always a plus too.
As for the Grammy Award winning score that I read somewhere was included in a home video release there's no mention . . . would be cool to have the soundtrack included here tho.
You can't just use the discount code on it's own
You have to add to zavvi basket first that the first important stage
Then you have you use this Link and then use the code WELCOME346
