Considering it contains an hour long, dialogue-free sequence involving, at least some of the time, the main character graphically sawing off one of his own limbs, it would pretty much take a director of Danny Boyle’s proven audience-friendly abilities to make anything like a mainstream success out of “127 Hours.” It also probably helps that James Franco has been coming into his own lately as an increasingly likable and surprisingly funny screen presence. The trailer we posted here back in August, however, didn’t persuade me personally that watching the film would be anything but a test of my own squeamish-guy cinematic fortitude. This one, however, is a little different.
127 Hours
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H/t The Playlist. This is actually one of the best put together trailers I’ve seen in some time. Another testament to the “invisible art” of the film editor. It certainly sells me on why it was such a hit on the festival circuit.
I will add that another way to approach this kind of people-painfully-removing-their-own-limbs material that might have been commercially viable is as a low-budget ultra-gore self-torture porn shocker for the international midnight movie circuit. You could call it “The Human Pill Bug.”
If anyone actually makes that movie, I’m expecting royalties. (And, yeah, I know, ‘The Human Slug” would be more accurate as pill bugs actually have legs. I’m an entertainment blogger, not a entomologist, damnit!)
