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Maybe, although I get the feeling that we may not agree on why.
I mean, I wouldn't have done the lenses at all. You just nod at them with some subtle contacts or something and go on with your day.
Or you could go the Deus Ex way with it, which I suppose is why I was inserting the whole retractable sunglasses thing into the conversation. Either way I don't know that it's worth attempting, even if they look better in the final version through some VFX enhancement or whatever.
Do the lenses. They, aside from the razor blade nails, were the defining characteristic.
Do them right.
Rather than set up a lazy shot-reverse-shot ala Attack of the Clones, every scene Molly is in gives us a background that can be flipped and displayed in the lenses in order to showcase what the character is feeling.
And then cast her with someone who can do a Carl Urban-as-Dredd performance without ever showing us her actual eyes.
Experimental? Edgy? Overly difficult? Artistically pretentious even?
Maybe.
But these stills are shot at day and without neon? So, much better than whatever paint-by-numbers checklist they are using to produce this abomination..
Im not happy about the look of the shades, but what bothers me so far is that lack of inherent menace, the sense of barely constrained violence of Molly.
She needs to radiate imminent death. So far, I'm just seeing an attractive woman in a "futuristic" suit with shiny sunglasses. Molly wasent just "shades and blades," she was someone jacked to the nines, lithe and ferocious.
The stills aren't doing her justice. Hopefully live action does.
Looks like she's walking out of an Apple store
Is that like "iPhone face" but for sci-fi?