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Serenity Trailer Finally Released
ShinyHat writes "Browncoats Rejoice! The trailer for Joss Whedon's Serenity, based on his unjustly cancelled Firefly television series, was released on the QuickTime Movie Trailers page. Thanks to its new September 30th release date it won't be completely overshadowed by Star Wars. Talk is, if the movie does well enough, Universal will pick it up for a second and third installment." (As promised.)
...is here!
http://movies.apple.com/movies/universal/serenity/ serenity_m480.mov
Fullscreen Version (640x480)
I'm assuming you're referring to River - which any Firefly can tell you is not a damsel in distress. She can take care of herself just fine actually.
Rumor is, that Book has only a very small role in the movie. Not all of the orginal cast could be gathered together; frankly, we're lucky we got as many as we did.
Although there was some doubt precisely which character wasn't back for much, there was little doubt that one of the actors couldn't be signed--Joss was just vague about which one. But the preview (and other speculation) sure makes it look like it's Book.
Better him that Inara, I guess
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I read an interview today that implied that this movie will address who Book really is as well. As far as I know, the entire cast is back, even if they did leave a few of them out of the trailer. SPOILERS Also, reavers.
Book is in the film. Just not the trailer.
Direct Files
/ serenity_m240.mov
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/ serenity_m480.mov
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small
http://movies.apple.com/movies/universal/serenity
4.83 MB
Medium
http://movies.apple.com/movies/universal/serenity
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Large
http://movies.apple.com/movies/universal/serenity
21 MB
Full screen:
http://movies.apple.com/movies/universal/serenity
41MB
Book is in the trailer. Background, 1 min 56 secs in.
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The conflict before the movie is akin to the US Civil War. The colony planets (in a "state's rights" fashion) resist domination by the Alliance. (No slavery in the story though so no idealogical high ground for the Alliance).
The frontier is much like the American West after the Civil War. The Alliance is powerful but remote authority. Some of the main characters were rebels and wore brown (thus brown coats) much like some western characters (ie, the Outlaw Josey Wales) were former confederates.
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Actually, if you watch closely I think all the sound effects happened when you could clearly see atmospheric effects around the edges of the ship. There is a *lot* of sound durring re-entry. :)
where she shoots several men straight with amazing accuracy.
Oh come on, that doesn't do it justice. River sees the three men (who are shooting in her direction), has the gun, but doesn't want to see them get shot. So she turns away and, not looking at them, takes the three of them out with three well-placed shots. Kaylee is there (she'd dropped the gun), and that's the event that makes Kaylee a little afraid of River in the subsequent shows.
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River - which any Firefly can tell you is not a damsel in distress. She can take care of herself just fine actually.
Actually, no she can't. She's insane and needs constant medical attention supervision so that she will not harm herself or others.
Her brother threw away all he had to save this damsel.
The fact that she's a psychic supersoldier in potentia doesn't make her any less vulnarable in the state she was in through the first episodes.
You can't take the sky from me...