Something that just bugs me...River on the Serenity DVD cover

POSTED BY: Dorothea
UPDATED: Monday, July 24, 2006 13:14
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KANEMAN

Tuesday, July 18, 2006 5:29 AM

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Originally posted by Blinker:
Quote:
Originally posted by Dorothea:
She looks nice and all, but she looks older and to me, almost like a different person... Can't put my finger on it--but it doesn't look at all like her!

What's with that?

As you can see by comparing the original to the DVD cover, the geniuses at Universal airbrushed the hell out of Summer Glau's photograph. (If you doubt that they're the same shot, compare the strands of hair around her head and across her chest.)

wow

Not content to puff out her bust (her back strategically placed behind a planet to hide her true size), they proceeded to edit the lighting on her face until she resembled a cross between Jessica Alba and a raccoon.

And yet, for all that, I still think she's cute. Oh, I've got it bad.

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DAVESHAYNE

Tuesday, July 18, 2006 5:32 AM

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Originally posted by dug:
My wife says that it is not a llama.

Instead she says it is an alpaca, because she has an alpaca obsession. Can anyone loan me 15,000 dollars so I can buy her an alpaca?

Personally I see both a llama and an alpaca. I also see a rooster and an emu. There's an entire petting zoo right on the front cover of the DVD.

David

"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de

MER

Tuesday, July 18, 2006 5:35 AM

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Originally posted by Blinker:

Granted they airbrushed her to hell, but it's not as bad as the job they did on her for the poster. She barely looks like herself, but still kinda pretty

SERGEANTX

Tuesday, July 18, 2006 6:55 AM

The marketing of "Serenity", indeed the totality of 'marketing', is an abomination unto the eyes of the Browncoats.

SergeantX

"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock

FLORALBUNNY

Tuesday, July 18, 2006 7:37 AM

Oh, goody. I'd never seen the
oficiall llama cover. It's a
cllassic. Nathan Fillllion!
Sheesh.
Who's responsiblle for it?
May I save and use in pllace of
the uglly thing on my R1 DVD?

And yes, what SergeantX said.
Doublled and Treblled.

bun (hiding behind a guanaco)
~2006~Fireflly Summer~2006~
==We aim to exponentiate==
------Hide the rum!------

EMMARIGBY

Tuesday, July 18, 2006 9:56 AM

You know I always thought the obsession with llamas was started on this board. Good to know we're following in a great BDH tradition! I miss the llama stampeding through all the threads. That was fun!

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MAGDALENA

Tuesday, July 18, 2006 11:56 AM

Ha ha ha ha (that me LOL!!)

Apart from the enormously funny factor in the Llama covers (alpaca's etc too!) I am in awe fo the skill and dedication it takes to create such a work of art that will bring joy to the hearts of many a browncoat accross the 'Verse!

Thank you one and all!!

Mwaaah! - Magdalena x x x
*still chuckling to herself as she leaves the thread...*

PENGUIN

Tuesday, July 18, 2006 12:07 PM

http://srt.art.home.att.net/

Here's a link to a hi-res, full-sized version.

CAUSAL

Tuesday, July 18, 2006 12:19 PM

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Originally posted by jpstargazer:
Ah, the great DVD cover art topic. There have been countless threads discussing not only how sub-par the US version cover art looks

Don't forget the small (but vocal) contingent that hates the international cover, as well!

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FLORALBUNNY

Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:55 AM

Penguin wrote:
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 02:07
http://srt.art.home.att.net/

Here's a link to a hi-res, full-sized version.
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Thanks awfully, Penguin.
That's such a shiny piece of work.
Would be fun if 11th would make one
for SLiTHER. Heh.

ßun
~2006~Firefly Summer~2006~
==We aim to exponentiate==
------Hide the rum!-------

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