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Suspension of Disbelief

For fellow marketing materials junkies, Dark Horizons posted links to publicity stills from various upcoming films, including The Good German, The Departed, Hollywoodland, Scenes of a Sexual Desire, Atonement, Daddy's Little Girl, and The Blood Diamond.

The most interesting one of the whole collection calls into question the limits of "suspension of disbelief." It looks like the older man is crushing Adrien Brody's wrist and choking himself with Brody's hand. From Hollywoodland:


hey now

So I have the hands of a holocaust survivor. That's no reason for you to photoshop my nostrils to make them look more monstrous than they really are.

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The importance of a leading man

It just goes to show you... if Jackson's Kong had a better leading man (Kong notwithstanding), the movie would have probably done about $25 million more at the box office, maybe more.