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Holy cow... that's awesome! And freaky... it seems to suggest that River could do with her mind what the Blue Hand Group did with their magic wand-thingy. (And River did say that she could kill Jayne with her brain!)
Of course the info might be suspect, but notice that the "made on" date of the first movie is dated only seven days before it was posted on the site. I kinda doubt that it was put together THAT quickly, but it's an incredibly elegant and simple idea... low-budget, quick to write up, just requiring a day from the actress and some no-name to ask a couple questions.
I'm also impressed that the clip was released under a Creative Commons license... 'course, that's what viral marketing is, but it's still damn cool.
Just a little more than a month to go!
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Some no name? You should listen closely to his voice. Or, rather, first listen to some of the commentary tracks on, say, the Firefly DVDs, and then listen closely to his voice.
Also, she didn't kill him with her mind; he pulls a pen from his throat, and her hand is all bloody at the end.
Anyway, people who have seen it already say this isn't in the movie.
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Oh.... I get it now. The guy at the table is the interviewer from the first one. River kills him with his pen, cause she's all psycho now, then looks into the camera and says, "I can see you," to the people running the camera. Again... cause she's psycho. I thought she was looking out of a window the first time I saw it.
I guess the guys running the test didn't put too much value on the interviewer's life.
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Oh, I figured that it was the same interviewer... it's just that the sound effects that I heard in the second one sounded a lot like the sick sneezing-type sounds the redshirt Feds made in "Ariel".
I did see River's bloody hand, but I figured she'd just grabbed the guy's head or something after he collapsed, or whatever. I didn't see the pen in the dim light.
And I did wonder if the interviewer was Whedon, but I wasn't sure enough to mention it. Haven't listened to any of his stuff outside the Firefly commentary tracks.
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Yes. And to make things even more viral, Universal Studios apparently claims they have nothing to do with these videos. In other words, Whedon and Glau made these on their own.
Of course, marketing is made up of lies, so it's probably a well funded, well planned commercial by the studio.
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I'm hoping we find out lots a stuff about what happened to River in the Institute. It's kind of looking like she's being trained as some kind of super infiltrator/assassin chick. They're definitely interested in cranking up her mental powers and, given footage from the movie, they seem to have give trained her physically too. Or maybe she's just really good at learning stuff and picked up all the martial arts juju from watching someone.
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Simon did say she'd always been very intuitive with everything she tried, including dance. It stands to reason that if she can dance (and I do mean the difficult kind, like ballet) then it stands to reason that she's physically able to do martial arts and can probably pick that up just as easy. Indeed those two activities have a great deal in common.
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