What's up with the DVD cover?
POSTED BY: Ravenhair
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 4, 2006 20:03
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I just recently noticed the DVD cover (really who needs the cover when the DVD is always in the DVD player?) and I don't get it.
What's with the hordes of people (or reavers?)? And is that a llama in there? And is that where the llama references in other posts come from?
And where are the rest of the BDH's?
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Not to mention that river looks nothing like what she usually looks like.
They weren't cows inside. They were waiting to be, but they forgot. Now they see sky, and they remember what they are.
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What llama
me am 
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I totally know what you mean. You'd think that putting a big picture of Summer on your cover would be a surefire way to pretty it up...but the amount of photoshop work that must have went into making Summer look like that boggles the mind.
As for the llamas, I'd say it's more accurate to say that there are llamaesque shapes.
Also, what's up with the big tagline at the top of the cover, "Experience the Ultimate Action Adventure." As one reviewer pointed out, they could have said "Arrr" or "Pirates" in the tagline and said just as much about the movie itself.
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This is why you all need the Australian DVD. It's shiny, the cover *makes sense*, and there are better features.
This makes much more sense -->
"Moving, exciting and subversive... the Sci Fi movie of the year." - Filmink.
From the creator of 'Buffy' & 'Angel':
SERENITY.
"THEY AIM TO MISBEHAVE".
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"He's hurting a woman, he really *is* a bad guy... and I wouldn't call him a gentleman."
- Kyle, 9, watching 'Serenity'.
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Even on the australian cover, river looks nothing like she does in the movie, although it does make a lot more sense, like you said.
They weren't cows inside. They were waiting to be, but they forgot. Now they see sky, and they remember what they are.
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Joss's official comment on the cover art (posted to the UB after a bit of an uproar):
Quote:
Joss_Whedon
Serenity Cast/Crew
Joined: 09 Jul 2004
Posts: 23
Posted: 03 Nov 2005 11:19 am
Post subject: DVD art
Guess what else I'm not the boss of.
And, that's a yes on the llama question.
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Ain't. We. Just.
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I hope I'm not being heretical when I say I cringe a bit every time I look too closely at the DVD cover. If I didn't know better, I'd never guess that was Summer. General consensus seems that that's partly why the BDM didn't do as well as hoped- it was clicheified in marketing to try and appeal to the lowest common denominator: Ooh, look, ANOTHER tough sexy killer female! And guns! And sleek silvery art deco buildings! And no cows!
You know, when I first rented Serenity at random from Blockbuster as a naive young twentysomething (about four months ago 
) I read the blurb on the back of the case and was frankly expecting something on the level of Chronicles of Riddick (shudder). How glorious it was to be wrong. But how many people had the same reaction when seeing the trailer (which I never saw, BTW) or reading the case in a video store and just passed on by...we'll never know.
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Australia definitely got the better cover.
Are there other alternative covers (produced in other countries)?
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IIRC, didn't the Serenity cover win Worst Cover Art somewhere? ;p
Yeah, someone dropped the ball on that one...
Somehow, to me, it comes off as someone trying to put a good spin on a movie they either never saw, didn't get, or just plain didn't like.
Yeah, let's take a well-written Science Fiction movie with heart and try as hard as we can to make it sound like Generic Sci-Fi Action-Adventure #4 ;p "You'll pay for the whole seat, but you'll only need the edge!"
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