Trailer for the The Other Boleyn Girl

By Wescoat on 2007-12-28 13:21:43

After viewing yesterday one of the better trailers in recent memory—Pixar's WALL-E—today I stumbled across one of the lamer ones. Based on Phillipa Gregory's hugely popular novel, Sony's ponderously titled The Other Boleyn Girl is loaded with cymbal-crashing music, women in corsets, and majestic castles. It also does that thing bad trailers do where they try to tell the film's entire story in two minutes. The result is convoluted, over-long, and tedious. The fact that I got bored with the trailer for Boleyn doesn't bode well for the film.

The Other Boleyn Girl Trailer

Also, love Natalie in pretty much everything, but why is Scarlett Johansson continually cast in period pieces? She does fill out an Elizabethan dress, but can anyone take her seriously as any character other than a sultry, contemporary, chain-smoking yuppie twit? The girl cannot act and has zero on-screen presence other than her ample physical assets. Her appearance in this trailer by itself reveals Boleyn as money-grubbing Hollywood drivel and not the legitimate historical epic this trailer so desperately wants to lead us to believe.

Johansson (who has five movies coming out over the next year) has about two years left before she hits the over-saturation point. If she wants to stick around she needs to play to her strengths, which don't include playing Natalie Portman's sister in a Medieval historical epic. She could take a few pointers from that other well-endowed indie heroine Cristina Ricci. Ricci mostly bugs me but she is extremely savvy and has tricked people into thinking she is a talented actress by choosing roles that match her personality. The difference between her and Johansson, however, is that Ricci has a personality and Scarlett doesn't. Also, I don't get the sense Johansson is particularly bright. She's got this weird, vacant look in her eyes all the time, especially when delivering lines—like she's reading them right off the memorized script inside her mind.

Sorry, had to get that off my chest.

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