LA Times on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button teaser trailer
I don’t think the press usually focuses on teaser trailers1 for films whose release dates are months away, but the teaser for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has gotten some published love from Patrick Goldstein2 of the Los Angeles Times:
The film is due in December and has already been touted for Oscarhood. Now that Paramount has put up its first trailer–download it here–I have no quarrel with any grand predictions
The teaser has only been in circulation for a few weeks (it first appeared prepended to prints of the new Indiana Jones film), but it is unusually beautiful and moody. I’m happy that people are now getting a glimpse of the film.
July 17th, 2008 at 5:38 am
Hey Zach, could you answer a Beijing question for me?
I was on a college tour given to a bunch of high schoolers, and when the tour guide said that we have many farms in Minnesota, one girl said, “Can I work on a farm?!” When there was time, I took her aside and tried to explain a bit about student visa work limitations, etc. She asked where the school’s farm was, and I explained that we didn’t have one–I’d just meant that we have many farms in Minnesota. She said, “Oh.” Then added, “But where is the farm … ummm … when you eat …” I said, “Food? It’s in the cafeteria” and pointed to the cafeteria. She said, “No…after you eat. You send it …” Oh! She meant to ask where we send our cafeteria compost!
I had to shamefully admit that our cafeteria didn’t compost.
The whole thing made sense to me last night after I learned that the West learned composting from China (we were stuck on manure heaps until then)–so of course even a kid from inner-city Beijing’s gonna think that compost is the natural way of fertilizing, just as an inner-city kid from America probably thinks that animal poop has something to do w/ fertilizing (even if they don’t know much beyond that).
Thing is…I was wondering…but forgot to ask her…if her school composted cafeteria scraps, or if her municipal area did, or what.
So, Zach, I’d like to ask you–have you yet been in a Beijing cafeteria with a separate trash receptacle for compostable items? Many such cafeterias?
Thanks!
July 17th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Sorry to say I don’t think I’ve ever seen a compost bin anywhere in Beijing. Recycling bins, yes, compost never. Perhaps that girl grew up in an area closer to farms?
July 30th, 2008 at 5:06 am
Maybe.