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Doctor Strange trailer
Marvel's Doctor Strange Teaser Trailer
Witness the power of the Sorcerer Supreme in the first teaser for Marvel's 'Doctor Strange,' in theaters November 4! ► Subscribe to Marvel: http://bit.ly/WeO3YJ Follow Marvel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/marvel Like Marvel on FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/Marvel For even more news, stay tuned to: Tumblr: http://marvelentertainment.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/marvel Google+: https://plus.google.com/+marvel/ Pintrest: http://pinterest.com/marvelofficial/
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Two main thoughts:
1) It looks awesome. Cumberbatch wasn't my first choice for the role, but no question that he can sell it.
2) I really, really, really wish it were less pervasively white.
Is there a more white combo than Cumberbatch and Swinton? Actually, Cumberbatch and Swinton sounds like a hip bar that I would probably enjoy. shit
I'm like 90% sure that any bar with that name would primarily feature psuedo-Victorian industrial decor and $20 drinks with house-made bitters. =P
It would have vintage books all over the place too!
I'll see your Cumberbatch and Swinton and raise you Hiddleston and Swinton in Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive. They got bonus points for also being vampires in that movie too.
Cumberbatch, Swinton and Hiddleston is the 2nd branch of this bar in Brooklyn. On opening night, Jarmusch attended.
But way too high on the shelf to actually reach and read. =(
Jamusch's Band are the House Band but they only play unadvertised sets between Midnight and 4am on the Nights of the New Moon
Also, too much cigarette smoke to really enjoy.
I usually love Swinton, but to me she seemed entirely wrong in this. (the trailer, anyway.)
Those are pretty much my thoughts on it as well.
From what I've been reading a lot of this could have been ameliorated by casting Strange with an Asian actor, but the consensus I keep running into is there it was going to be very hard to break free of the incredibly problematic source material no matter what route was taken.
The source material is problematic but it seems that the route they took was worse by casting Tilda Swinton to play the Ancient One.
I always have high hopes for Tilda because I love her as an actress, but yes, this was bad.
Man, a Chinese-American as Dr. Strange would have been amazing. There was no way it was ever going to happen - it would take far more courage, decency and awareness than Hollywood is capable of - but it would have been such a brilliant way to go. Way better than "White Guy Goes To Magic Tibet To Be Trained By White Woman."
But can you even imagine how incredible it would have been to have a Chinese-American Dr. Strange? Would've put my ass in the seat, no question.
Between the problematic cultural appropriation elements of Strange's origin story, and the straight-up whitewashing of the Ancient One, I was already going to skip this movie. The trailer looks OK, but didn't particularly wow me.
Also, given they'd already taken a lot of heat for whitewashing the Ancient One, maybe they could've shown Wong in the trailer? Like, if you're already getting heat for how white your movie is, maybe you want to make some effort to show that you do still have an Asian male in there? (Of course, that man is in the role of an actual manservant, so it's not exactly a particularly progressive starting point. But still, omitting him from the trailer entirely feels like a poor decision, under the circunstances.)
It looks pretty, has a definite "What is the Matrix?" vibe, and the two actors are good choices. But from this teaser, the movie could be pretty much anything.
Yeah, I am such a big Matrix fan that this made me kinda excited!
Pretty cool in my estimation*.
*Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about Doctor Strange, well regarded stories featuring him, or his continuity.
I'm enjoying the current Doctor Strange Book, and just read All New X-men where Hank meets up with Doctor Strange (and procedes to insult the very concept of magic, to the Sorceror Supreme's face...). Excellent stuff.
This could be a lot of fun, seeing some of landscape warping special effects like in Inception, great for the sort of weird stuff Strange gets inovlved in.