Showgirl's List
This Dutch trailer for Paul Verhoeven's Black Book (Sony Classics) is interesting for the extreme widescreen framing. It looks like a 3 to 1 aspect ratio...odd. The film is supposed to be Verhoeven's return to his Dutch roots, but it looks like it was shot with the same technical slickness that he applied to The Hollow Man. I have to give David Poland credit for making me laugh by calling it Showgirl's List. He called it"a perverse delight...Verhoeven has a strong, kinky voice that is on full display here. Sex, Nazis, excrement, pubic hair bleaching, Lugers, explosions, Jews, redheads, singing, dancing...woo hoo!! This film may actually be Showgirls for the intelligentsia. Can't wait to see it again."
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on September 22, 2006 at 6:59 PM
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JD
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This trailer is 2.35:1. Hold a piece of paper up to your screen, mark the height of the image, then see how many times those dimesnions will go across the screen, width-wise. Should be 2.35 times. And Hollow Man wasn't very slick at all. It was actually kind of clumsy photographically, compared to the ultimate slick, glossy Verhoeven movie: Basic Instinct.
Posted by JD
at September 23, 2006 7:47 AM