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[PRESS]12/14/07: A different Matt Reeves Interview by IGN
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JookNy21
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 		[PRESS]12/14/07: A different Matt Reeves Interview by IGN
talks about Movie name change and "Case Designate"
PART 1:

http://movies.ign.com/articles/841/841636p1.html

PART 2 of the interview, which includes talk on 9/11:

http://movies.ign.com/articles/841/841703p1.html

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 		cant wait to hear about Reeves' thoughts on Cloverfield's 9/11 subtext!
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 		http://movies.ign.com/articles/841/841703p1.html

Here he talks about 9/11 Shocked

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 		I found this funny (this comes from IGN, not Matt Reeves):

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Fans have done their best to unlock more info about the storyline, pouring over the viral marketing campaigns that have surrounded the picture, mostly to no avail.


Also some of the reasons for the title "Cloverfield" and how it almost changed (from Reeves):
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As for that "case designate" reference, anyone who has seen the clips from the film knows that "Cloverfield" is the case name that the government has assigned to whatever or whoever is doing all that destruction in New York.

"In the way that the Manhattan Project was the name of that program, that's what this is," says the director, though he specifies that doesn't mean that it was created by the government the way the Manhattan Project was. "And it's not a project per say. It's the way that this case has been designated. That's why that is on the trailer, and it becomes clearer in the film. It's how they refer to this phenomenon [or] this case."


For the Blair Witch crowd who think its going to be jerky and not get to see the monster:

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The other, potentially more damning comparison between Cloverfield and Blair Witch is that audiences might have the feeling from the trailer that perhaps they're getting hoodwinked here, and that maybe, just maybe they aren't going to get to see anything in terms of monster action. After all, Blair Witch pretty much copped out in that regard. Reeves says that's not going to be the case with his film in the slightest, however.

"That's the way that our film is incredibly different from Blair Witch," he says. "They very, very smartly used that aesthetic so that they could avoid showing anything, and what was effective about [that] and what I think is also effective in this film is that you can create a lot of suspense that way. But in this movie, you do see a lot. At the end of the day, it still has that huge scale, it's just that it's shot from this point of view. So you're going to see the monster, you're going to see huge-scale destruction, you're going to see a lot of crazy stuff! … We're a studio film, and we're making this sort of crazy thing, but it's made just from this unique point of view. And really what that adds, again what I think makes the film very different, is this kind of very realistic aesthetic even though it's such an outrageous, outlandish idea. And that makes it a kind of thrilling idea. You wind up getting swept along in the action of the thing and it starts to gain a kind of tremendous momentum, we feel, and that's hopefully how people will react to it."


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InAFieldofClover
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 		Awesome, we get to see the monster!

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 		Kudos on the find Jook!

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InAFieldofClover wrote:
Awesome, we get to see the monster!


Who said we weren't???

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 		What I find pretty stupid is the statement:
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The top-secret nature of the film has always been a part of the plan. In fact, it came as a reaction of sorts to the current trend (thanks largely to Internet sites like IGN) among movie fans towards knowing everything about a movie long before it ever hits theaters. Cloverfield is an attempt to get back to that youthful innocence about movies that the film's makers recall from their childhood.

"You know what we thought?" asks Reeves. "When I got involved with [the project], one of the things that J.J. was talking about that we all got excited about was the idea that because the film was going to feel realistic, that meant we could cast unknowns. And that meant also that we were going to be making it in a way that would be made quite quickly. And people didn't know about this movie. And we thought, in today's environment … you know everything about every movie before it comes out. There's so much information that comes out, people are so media savvy. And we were just remembering when we were kids and movies would come out and you'd see a trailer and you were like, 'What was that?!' There was that sense of discovery. And so we all got very excited about the idea of putting together this trailer for a movie that no one had heard of. And because of the accelerated schedule and knowing exactly when it was going to come out, we knew that we'd be able to make this trailer and then put out this movie, and people would know nothing about it. And that would enable there to be that sense of discovery from when we were all younger, that there wasn't so much media saturation. And so that was definitely part of the concept."

If Reeves keeps blabbering on and slipping out more and more info, he's going to destroy that sense of mystery. It IS possible to tell a fair bit about something as deep and rich as a movie can be, without ruining the total sense of mystery. Wonder if he can master that skill before January 18th?

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Fans have done their best to unlock more info about the storyline, pouring over the viral marketing campaigns that have surrounded the picture, mostly to no avail.

If that's so true, we'd have never found the Slusho, Tagruato, and jamieandteddy sites. We'd have never found the MySpace pages, nor the Menuism review. We'd probably not found basically every gamejack out there. IGN is just trying to play down that the ARG community (and to a great extent, this site) have dominated this whole viral campaign. Heaven forbid what they like to see as 'inept amateurs' do better than they did.

xboyonfirex wrote:
Who said we weren't???

Many here have speculated that we weren't going to see it, at all. That got a bit revised when the trailer gave us a glimpse, but still those supporting such speculation said we'd not see the WHOLE monster. Seems Reeves (who ought to at least know about this for sure) has killed that theory.
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 		has everyone seen the interview where he says that the film isn't set on 1-18-08 yet? It's linked on Cloverfield Clues
http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_ezine&task=read&page=1&category=2&article=3945

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 		wow its not really on 1-18-08 that explains that the warmth in NYC

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 		Untill the movie comes out, or somebody reputable sees an advance screening, no one really knows how it's gonna go down.

I said earlier, Reeves could just be throwing stuff out there to throw people off. Rick McCullen used to do that all the time during production of the Star Wars Prequels. He'd say stuff in interviews that turned out to be completely not true. It would get all the "Spoiler Hunters" talking about things that had nothing to do with the movies, and get them off the scent of the real facts.

Maybe this ARG, or ARE, or whatever it is, was going to fast, and this is just supposed to slow it down. Now we're spending three days talking about the Reeves interviews, instead of looking for more clues, and websites.

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Euchre
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Slusho Addict wrote:
has everyone seen the interview where he says that the film isn't set on 1-18-08 yet? It's linked on Cloverfield Clues
http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_ezine&task=read&page=1&category=2&article=3945

That's being discussed in it's own thread, and I've already made comment on that issue there.
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