Check it. Winner of the Golden Palm(or Palm D'Or) and Best Director prizes at the 2003 Canne Film Festival, Gus Van Sant's "Elephant" has its first set of trailers. The film is a fictional account of school violence in America.
The film was shot inside a high school in Van Sant's hometown of Portland, Or. After three months of searching for talented unknowns and non-actors, Van Sant then used the cast's experiences and perspectives of high school life to craft the script.
RE: Elephant
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on October 31, 2003 11:59 AM
Hello.
I wasn't in that movie. But, its so clear that it talks to me ; it isn't a "movie" ; its not a documentary ; but something between.
For sure not entertaining. Maybe you could feel schocked in seeing this... film.
A young, but no more a teen, Frenchman.
"Elephant" and that T-shirt!
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 14, 2003 10:55 AM
I was also at the primier and was so drawn into the film. What a perfect and real depiction of what it's like to be a high school student in today's world.
Also, I really wanted a t-shirt just like the one character had on with the black bull on it and I found one from someone who put it on ebay. It's really cool and people always comment on it.
Elephant is a must see!!!
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 15, 2003 1:50 PM
wow... that is all i can say! being an extra was super exciting and it led to many other projects for me! I got a speaking role of 14 lines in another movie called Thumbsucker... anyway, as soon as you figure out when the movie will be playing in your area, please spend the $8.00 to see it. Alot of work was put into making the movie and as a director, wouldn't you want to exhibit your art? Gus is a great guy and eventhough he had the most stuck up actors, his movie truned out to be an amazing work of art! You rock Gus!
The Red Head Kid/RomanPOstrovsky/
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 27, 2003 11:12 AM
Gus Van Stant Will be Shooting another movie Starting July 15 it will be about an artist that is depressed and kills himself.But I would like to say thank you for watching Elepant. Just Look At For The Red Head Kid Played By Roman P Ostrovsky http://WWW.Geocities.com/romanpostrovsky/
Thanks Roman
Have you read that?
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Posted by marveliar (marveliar@caramail.com) on December 8, 2003 10:53 AM
well, i'm french and i've just read some other comments about Elephant, most of the subjects were "are you gay?" and i was completely frightened to see (read in fact) how many people didn't get it at all! Elephant is a GREAT movie and it's more than that! It's really important for people to see it and above all to understand it! (i think the ones i read the comments of didn't!!)
well anyway Gus rules!!
;o)
the trailer was novel..
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Posted by friendlyCut (kimy049@hawaii.rr.com) on February 26, 2004 6:44 PM
I made no presumptions about the movie, even after watching the trailer several times during my cigarette breaks. The filming technique I would say is novel though it has the same conditions of being in school manifest in clarity with the broken glass of the director's camera..I don't take a big liking to Spielburg's works, but this certainly is the antithesis of it. When Gus Van Sant breathes life into a film, he usually shifts between characters to destroy the myth of a central force by Truth. I find this gives the viewer a more distant relation to the film, since Hollywood has a reputation for exposing a poetic outlook. I am sure these kids end up surviving the whole episode, otherwise there would be a whole courtroom drama to deal with.. In any case, the trailer's ambiguity can only produce advertisement through a few guess shots. In any case, it looks gorgeous on my monitor screen after a steaming shower where egg is going through the drainpipe..I leave it up to Gus VSant to prove that modern film works go against the traditional concept started from Homer's misconception of time..into an entropy which is very much the wave of the future..
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