'Che' Bootleg Trailer Leaks!
Filed under: Drama, Foreign Language, Cannes, Distribution, DIY/Filmmaking, Movie Marketing, Politics, Oscar Watch
There's good news and bad news, Soderbergh fans: The bad news is that the director's two-part, Benicio Del Toro-starring Che Guevara biopic Che, as noted in a recent piece in The Hollywood Reporter, still doesn't have a U.S. distributor. Gregg Goldstein's piece (which also looks at the similar challenges faced by Cannes '08 films Synedoche, New York and Two Lovers) notes that there are four offers on the table from independent distributors, but no deal has yet been signed.
For many who saw Che at Cannes (including myself), this is vexing news. Goldstein also relates that one distributor's hopes to purchase Che as a single film with a three-hour running time has been roundly rebuffed. However, in case anyone would like to see what all the fuss is about -- albeit in blurry, bootleg fashion -- a grainy, blurry bootleg of the trailer (in all Spanish with no subtitles) for the first half of Che, The Argentine, has hit YouTube (see above) -- and while the bootlegged trailer may lack clarity and definition, it also gives a great sense of the look and the feel of the film.
Does The Argentine's trailer make you hunger for all of Soderbergh's Che? Or does it just make you appreciate how hard it's going to be to get a distributor to back a four-hour long historical drama in Spanish?
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(Page 1)2. My interest in this film is directly proportional to its grounding in reality. In other words, my hopes aren't high. I expect this to be a revisionist love letter, plain and simple.
Posted at 12:16PM on Jul 31st 2008 by ronmoses
3. Che was a horrible murderous man. Why is he being idolized? People need to actually learn history before they start wearing shirts with someone's face on it.
Posted at 12:21PM on Jul 31st 2008 by TheRedMonkey
4. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. I hope for your sake you were taking liberties with your comment, and aren't quite ignorant enough to believe history will paint the man as broadly and one dimensionally as you seem to believe he was...
Posted at 6:11PM on Aug 13th 2008 by Eddie
5. I like the look of it from what I can tell from it, interested to see what perspective Steven gives in this film, i hope it will be a more realistic one...
Posted at 1:55PM on Jul 31st 2008 by Mike
6.
A big problem with this film is that Che Guevara isn't really relevant to modern times.
The only people who get riled up over Che are the Cuban exiles. Boohoo! Firing squads in the aftermath of a guerilla war. What a joke.
Meanwhile Latin Leftists, who use Che in campaign images, are busy winning elections and rebuilding resource-rich nations.
When Hugo Chavez tells a crowd of leftists that Che's ideas are not relevant to modern times, and the old guerilla war is over (2003 - World Social Forum)...you better realize that it's not relevant.
We've got civilians getting blown up by other civilians. The global economy on the verge of collapse if a few Iranian silkworm's hit Saudi Arabian oil facilities. Christian/Jewish crusaders and Muslim Jihadists ready to fight World War 3.
By comparison, Che & the Cuban revolution are nothing but folk tales from a long-lost era.
Posted at 6:32AM on Aug 3rd 2008 by Paul Escobar
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1. Che is the perfect protagonist for a movie these days in this QT era of anti-heroes and flexible morality.
He is a scumbag. If it were up to him, at least part of America would be a nuclear wasteland and the island of Cuba would now be the Castro atoll.
But, since we Americans love feeling like the bad guys, we'll just say he was a product of all our oppression and that its our fault he was a psycho. we'll still wear his shirts and act like he was a rebel a la Andy Warhol when, in reality, he wasn't much more than the killers you see see each week on Law and Order.
Posted at 11:49AM on Jul 31st 2008 by peter