{"id":8679,"date":"2009-10-13T19:30:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T01:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=8679"},"modified":"2009-10-16T12:28:49","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T18:28:49","slug":"late-tuesday-tease-antichrist-the-movie-is-a-bit-confusing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/late-tuesday-tease-antichrist-the-movie-is-a-bit-confusing\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Tuesday Tease: ANTICHRIST the Movie is a Bit Confusing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By dropping those 2 special words &#8220;the Movie&#8221; we thereby specify that this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antichristthemovie.com\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">ANTICHRIST is a movie<\/a> by Lars von Trier and not some kind of reality TV show spliced into long form in order to enhance its evil potency.  <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"505\" height=\"284\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4062746&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=990000&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4062746&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=990000&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"505\" height=\"284\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/4062746\" class=\"external external_icon\">Lars von Trier&#8217;s Antichrist &#8211; Official Trailer<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/zentropa\" class=\"external external_icon\">Zentropa<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\" class=\"external external_icon\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We watched the trailer and still have no idea what in hell is going on. The title suggests that &#8220;Hell&#8221; is exactly what will be going on but all that&#8217;s seen is Willem Dafoe getting the bone a lady(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001250\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Charlotte Gainsbourg<\/a>) well outside his dating age-range in the roots of a giant tree that feeds on disembodied human limbs.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;nature is Satan&#8217;s church&#8221; line makes even less sense.  Please tell us you&#8217;re not basing your evidence on Shyamalan&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Happening_%282008_film%29\" class=\"external external_icon\">the plants and trees want to kill us<\/a>&#8221; movie.<\/p>\n<p>Unwilling to let a silly movie trailer or odd dialogue break our natural deconstructing nature, we turn to the film&#8217;s plot summary for answers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A grieving couple retreat to \u00e2\u20ac\u2122Eden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, their isolated cabin in the woods, where they hope to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antichristthemovie.com\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okaaaaayyyy&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The poster stirs the WTF pot even harder.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/geektyrant.com\/2009\/09\/crazy-new-poster-for-antichrist-film\/\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/antichrist91.jpg\" alt=\"antichrist91\" title=\"antichrist91\" width=\"350\" height=\"513\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/antichrist91.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/antichrist91-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>Admittedly, it&#8217;s a little bit awesome at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/geektyrant.com\/2009\/09\/crazy-new-poster-for-antichrist-film\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">geek tyrant<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4L2ooG_MX9E\" class=\"external external_icon\">Chaos reigns!<\/a>&#8221; says the fox. And we scratch our heads a little bit harder. Thanks for the extra oddness, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/slantsmcgee\" class=\"external external_icon\">@slantsmcgee<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By dropping those 2 special words &#8220;the Movie&#8221; we thereby specify that this ANTICHRIST is a movie by Lars von Trier and not some kind of reality TV show spliced into long form in order to enhance its evil potency. Lars von Trier&#8217;s Antichrist &#8211; Official Trailer from Zentropa on Vimeo. We watched the trailer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,57],"tags":[1627,1644,1645,1582,187,1187,1628,1589,989,388,225],"class_list":["post-8679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-trailers","tag-antichrist-the-movie","tag-chaos-reigns","tag-fox","tag-halloween-2009","tag-if-you-say-so","tag-one-sheet-wonder","tag-seriously-wtf","tag-the-31-posts-of-halloween-2009","tag-tuesday-tease","tag-vimeo","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}