August 30, 2005
The Proposition Trailer
I'm officially dying to see The Proposition. It's appears to be one of those films based on an impossible situation that you have no idea how the main character is going to manage. From the trailer and from everything I've read about the film, here's the impossible situation:
3 very close brothers are outlaws. The oldest one is the most wanted. The two youngest brothers get captured. The "police" captain tells the middle brother (Guy Pearce) that he's going to execute the youngest brother. However, the captain makes the middle brother a proposition. He'll let Pearce escape... and spare the youngest brothers life... if Pearce (after escaping) kills the oldest brother once he finds him.
If that premise wasn't enough to get me excited about the project... check out this cast. Guy Pearce, Tom Budge, Emily Watson, Ray Winstone, David Wenham (Faramir from Lord of the Rings) and John Hurt (from everything). Yeah... sign me up.
You can catch the trailer for "The Proposition" over here at the film's official site.
Posted by John Campea at August 30, 2005 02:13 PM
Comments
Posted by: Meli at August 30, 2005 03:22 PM
If it has David Wenham and Guy Pearce.....I'm There!
Donna A.
Posted by: Donna A. at August 30, 2005 08:40 PM
Early reviews of "The Proposition" look brilliant....Australia's version of "Unforgiven"...just as visually beautiful, well written and with a stellar cast. Being one of Guy Pearce's biggest admirers for many years, I'm not surprised to find him in this one. His performance in "Memento" is probably still one of the best I have seen on screen in the last 5 years. Oscar nomination for this one is no doubt eminent. John Hurt, who could forget "The Elephant Man"....Ray Winstone was fabulous in "Henry VIII's Wives"...and Emily Watson is classic beauty personified. Very few Westerns in the last two decades have peaked my interest. With the exception of "Unforgiven" and now "The Proposition" it may be on a fast comeback yet again. This film? Is absolutely breathtaking...Edgy, painful, tests your own feelings about family, love, loyalty and morality. Go see it! ;)
Posted by: Lisa R. at September 5, 2005 01:39 PM
I see potential and I love the cast! I have to admit the fact that Nick Cave wrote it has me all the more interested.
The trailer isn't the easiest to understand on the website, but it does offer another spec of hope among loads of crap we'll be offered this fall.