Movie Trailer: Francis Ford Coppola’s Youth Without Youth
The movie trailer for Youth Without Youth, Francis Ford Coppola’s first new film in 10-years, is now online. Coppola adapted, produced and directed the movie based on the 1976 novel by Romanian-born religious historian Mircea Eliade.
The short teaser trailer looks interesting, but doesn’t really show much, or at least it doesn’t show much in terms of narrative story. And that worries me quite a bit since I have heard that it is somewhat personal and experimental. It has been widely reported that the film was inspired by his daughter Sofia, and shot with a low $5 million budget film last winter in Romania using a Sony High Definition camera. The movie has been screened in front of friends and fellow directors including: Martin Scorsese, Dennis Hopper, Andy Garcia, Matt Dillon, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Spike Jonze, John Singleton, the Hughes Brothers, Alfonso Cuarón, and Gus Van Sant attended the screening. It has been said that overall the film is “Good, but very difficult.”
The movie stars Tim Roth as a 70-year-old who is struck by lightning and suddenly gets younger and more brilliant. The film co-stars Alexandra Maria Lara and Bruno Ganz, and Matt Damon makes a cameo appearance. Coppola’s last time behind the camera was 1997’s Rainmaker which also starred Damon.
Eli Roth’s Trailer Trash
When I saw Grindhouse, I wondered out loud to some friends: “Why don’t they just make an entire movie of just fake trailers.” People told me it wouldn’t work. One friend said you need a narrative story and nobody would sit in a theater for 30 episodic trailer clips. Well it looks like Eli Roth had the same idea, and has found the solution.
“I’m going to be doing a film of all fake trailers, like Thransgiving, called Trailer Trash. I want to make a movie like Borat or Jackass that’s literally completely ridiculous, totally silly and absurd, that’s just all fake trailers. I have a genius way to tie it all together so it will actually play like a movie,” Roth revealed to Collider at the Saturn Awards. “I want to do this with a budget because they have to look like movies. Literally I’ll have the satisfaction because it will feel like I made 30 movies.””That’s the beauty of Trailer Trash - you just need good gags and good kills.”
According to Roth, his friends are already on board to contribute segments, including Edgar Wright, Greg Nicoatero and Robert Rodriguez. One could probably assume that Richard Kelly and Quentin Tarantino would also be on this list, although they were not mentioned. Thanksgiving 2 and Hanukill are just some of the films he plans to include in the compilation, which he hopes to shoot in parts before and after he goes into production on the adaptation of Stephen King’s Cell. Sounds like a plan.
Elvis Presley - In The Ghetto Lyrics and Video
In The Ghetto by Elvis Presley, Music Video and Lyrics
In the Ghetto is a song written by American singer-songwriter Mac Davis and made popular by rock and roll singer Elvis Presley. The song was released in 1969 as a 45 rpm single with “Any Day Now” as the flip side. It is a narrative story of a young boy who grows up in the ghetto, steals and fights, and eventually is shot and killed.
The song was Elvis’s first Top 10 hit in the US in four years, and his first UK Top 10 hit in three years.
Elvis Presley - In The Ghetto Lyrics
(words & music by scott davis)
As the snow flies
On a cold and gray Chicago mornin
A poor little baby child is born
In the ghetto
And his mama cries
cause if theres one thing that she don’t need
Its another hungry mouth to feed
In the ghetto
People, dont you understand
The child needs a helping hand
Or hell grow to be an angry young man some day
Take a look at you and me,
Are we too blind to see,
Do we simply turn our heads
And look the other way
Well the world turns
And a hungry little boy with a runny nose
Plays in the street as the cold wind blows
In the ghetto
And his hunger burns
So he starts to roam the streets at night
And he learns how to steal
And he learns how to fight
In the ghetto
Then one night in desperation
A young man breaks away
He buys a gun, steals a car,
Tries to run, but he dont get far
And his mama cries
As a crowd gathers round an angry young man
Face down on the street with a gun in his hand
In the ghetto
As her young man dies,
On a cold and gray Chicago mornin,
Another little baby child is born
In the ghetto