The Lovely Bones
Anyone else read the book? I'm so excited for the movie! Also it doesn't hurt that Mark Walhburg is in it! Here's an article of Peter Jackson talking about the film:
Article from Comic-Con
The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones is what Jackson described as "a thriller," and its a fairly liberal adaptation of a novel by Alice Sebold about a teenage girl who is murdered in the early 1970s. In the mythos of the book (and the movie), the afterlife is based on whatever you believed or experienced in real life, and so the main character's idea of life after death is "very 1970s," as Jackson put it. "We actually watched episodes of The Partridge Family for inspiration for [main character] Sue's idea of heaven," he said.
We watched a 4 minute series of clips from the film, which reminded me a little bit of The Virgin Suicides with its teenage girl protagonist wandering in a pubescent daze through a world of glowing, 1970s murderous weirdness. Saoirse Ronan, who plays main character Sue, is the perfect combination of tentative girl and anguished proto-adult. Stanley Tucci is almost unrecognizable (and amazing) as her killer. And the images of Sue's afterlife are like Lord of the Rings on acid: Jackson calls it "hallucinatory," and he's right. He also said they worked hard not to make it a tearjerker, so expect an intense experience but not one designed to make you get out your handkerchief.
Article from Comic-Con
The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones is what Jackson described as "a thriller," and its a fairly liberal adaptation of a novel by Alice Sebold about a teenage girl who is murdered in the early 1970s. In the mythos of the book (and the movie), the afterlife is based on whatever you believed or experienced in real life, and so the main character's idea of life after death is "very 1970s," as Jackson put it. "We actually watched episodes of The Partridge Family for inspiration for [main character] Sue's idea of heaven," he said.
We watched a 4 minute series of clips from the film, which reminded me a little bit of The Virgin Suicides with its teenage girl protagonist wandering in a pubescent daze through a world of glowing, 1970s murderous weirdness. Saoirse Ronan, who plays main character Sue, is the perfect combination of tentative girl and anguished proto-adult. Stanley Tucci is almost unrecognizable (and amazing) as her killer. And the images of Sue's afterlife are like Lord of the Rings on acid: Jackson calls it "hallucinatory," and he's right. He also said they worked hard not to make it a tearjerker, so expect an intense experience but not one designed to make you get out your handkerchief.