An interesting piece about Seth Rogen's latest film over on Hollywood Elsewhere.Observe and Report "is not a movie about a guy who becomes a hero [but] a guy who's decided in his own mind that he is one, all evidence to the contrary. Referring to this movie and Paul Blart: Mall Cop in the same breath because they're both about mall cops is like comparing Straw Dogs to Babe because they're both set on a farm." -- from Moises Chiullan's just-posted review of Jody Hill's upcoming Warner Bros. release, which is opening 4.10.I personally thought it was just going to be a typical Judd Apatow style comedy, but this sounds like it could be something a little bit different and quite a bit darker than previously thought.
Anyone out there who believes that the Warner Bros. copy line on the Observe and Report poster is meant to be understood in this light -- i.e., that Rogen's character is delusional -- doesn't know much about studio marketing. The poster obviously isn't taking the idea of Rogen's mall cop being a hero seriously -- the shades make it clear he's a self-absorbed doofus -- but the poster isn't even flirting with the idea that the character may be seriously deranged in a Travis Bickle sense of the term. There isn't a wisp of a hint of this in the poster art.
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