Ryan Gosling - Lars And The Real Girl: Playing With Dolls For Grown-Ups. (Minor Spoilers) - Page 7

jenjuelich · 08-08-2007, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by banter-diva (View Post)

I had the pleasure of seeing both test sceenings (Arclight and The Grove) of Lars and the Real Girl. The Arclight audience seemed a bit more receptive towards the movie.

All-in-all, I thought the movie was certainly uplifting! Fun, hilarious, and moving. I've seen Ryan Gosling in the Notebook, The Believer, and recently,.. Half Nelson (stellar performance). Yet, his acting in Lars and the Real Girl just goes to show his ability to play a wide range of characters.

I certainly hope this movie is released.

Just saw there that you've seen the movie and I have a question.
I'm a writer/director and have started a small, almost
hobbiesque film company and we started production on our
little short film last year
- Love Doll (modern day pinochio with lonely porn
store clerk and blow-up doll) - and eventhough I'm
sure that this film would BLOW us out of the water
regarding content, quality and every other way, I was
wondering if at the end, he blows up the doll with
helium and sends it on it's way. Again, our movie is
low budget, filled with I'm sure, tons of cliches and
what not but I was wondering if they used that visual
in their movie? Thanks for any help - Jennifer

-Bianca- · 08-08-2007, 07:45 PM

Some footage from ET.

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Since we turned into this century, Ryan Gosling has been pretty busy with dramas -- thriller, sports, crime, drugs, romance -- you name it. The work has built him a pretty cushy career, which is only helped by the fact that his role in Half Nelson gained him an Oscar nomination. But if you're Canadian, or spent time in the land of the maple leaf in the '90s, he's the kid from Breaker High -- the show about kids who go to school on a cruise ship (check out the old credit sequence here to see Gosling all young and stuff). He's finally breaking out of the dreary, for some fun of a much more adult variety -- if you haven't heard yet, he's starring in a little indie flick called Lars and the Real Girl.

By real girl, they mean real doll. Yes, the guy who romanced Rachel McAdams in The Notebook is now romancing an inanimate object, and no, she doesn't seem to come to life like Kim Cattrall did. The premise is simple -- guy is lonely, so he gets himself a doll. But instead of delighting in Bianca's "company" in the privacy of his home, he makes everyone accept her as his girlfriend. There was recently a clip of the film on ET, and Defamer has now thrown it up. The scenes show everyone freaking out about Bianca, and the fact that this guy is pretending that the sex doll is a real person. He tells everyone she's a missionary (get the joke?), and he carts her around in a wheelchair. While the premise is definitely interesting, it's Gosling's performance that is making the film particularly tasty. If the whole movie is half as good as the current scenes, I have a feeling this man is going to be huge for a very long time.

downinnewyork · 08-09-2007, 06:19 AM

Trailer:

Lars and the Real Girl Movie Trailer | /Film

Poster:

Welcome to HD VIDEO CENTER: Apple - Trailer: Lars and the Real Girl

Official website URL?

http://www.larsandtherealgirl-themovie.com/ (Nothing up yet.)

**heaven85** · 08-09-2007, 08:21 PM

Thanks for the link and all the info.

-Bianca- · 08-09-2007, 09:05 PM

Aw, it looks good.

(They could have picked a prettier real doll though.

)

~Natali~ · 08-09-2007, 10:35 PM

^it looks cute

**heaven85** · 08-11-2007, 09:30 PM

It does look good.

Ugg Bianca - you don't like how you look? But still you're Ryan's love interest so it doesn't matter

-Bianca- · 08-12-2007, 12:33 AM

I'm beautiful on the inside, dammit! ::sniff::

I have to say the 'stache doesn't look that bad in actual action. It's not necessarily great looking, but it's certainly not gross like it looked in some stills.