Post apoco / zombie fans: Les Revenants

[D'wards]

Apparantly there is a English speaking remake in the works.

Could be done well if it set in a backwoods mid-western town. Don't know if its going to be an English or American production, but i hope its HBO stylee - they do these sort of series so much better than we do.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

got a real worry it will twin peak or lost. Already filming a second series so stuff ain't getting fully resolved in this one

Well, it's not shit, so it's no Lost.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Plus is it me or is a prominant part of the soundtrack Over by Portishead with one note missing?

Yeah, spotted that. Wonder if it's deliberate?

 

[Reno]

Apparantly there is a English speaking remake in the works.

Could be done well if it set in a backwoods mid-western town. Don't know if its going to be an English or American production, but i hope its HBO stylee - they do these sort of series so much better than we do.

There already was a US TV pilot based on the 2003 film Les Revenants called Babylon Fields, but the series didn't get picked up.

Paul Abbott is doing the English remake called They Came Back, which was also the English title of the original film. I hope they are doing the same thing as when they adapted the film as a TV series in France. Use the same premise, but tell a different story with different characters. Otherwise I'm unlikely to watch the remake.

 

[Part 2]

Is the film worth watching Reno?

 

[Reno]

Is the film worth watching Reno?

I really like it and it's the reason why I was so excited about the series. In some ways it's quite different in that thousands of the dead come back at once and in the film they are slightly different from way they are the series. I linked to the trailer on page 1 of this thread.

 

[Sue]

She is one of my major French crushes.

And my male crush is Vincent Cassel who also is not what you'd describe as a bland pretty boy.

And Monica Bellucci obviously agrees -- the European Brad and Angelina as a friend would have it...

 

[Sue]

Well, the plot thickens -- Mme da Costa, Victor and Jean for starters. Really looking forward to the final instalment next week.

 

[cyprusclean]

Do some of them not know they are dead? Was away and missed a couple of episodes, but two scenes last night made an impact on me : a crowd of them assembled downstairs; and the two women with Victor driving around in circles around the dam.

 

[Part 2]

And the brothers wandering around in a loop for a while too. It got more confusing last night.

 

[belboid]

yes, no one can leave the village. except for those dam repair guys that didnt interact with anyone else. it's almost like they're already all dead, but dont know it. i predict/fear it is all gonnna go a bit end of Lost

 

[hegley]

Do some of them not know they are dead?

Depends who we think are dead. But all the characters that we know for sure are dead (Simon, Camille, Mme Costa, Serge, Victor) know they are dead.

 

[scifisam]

I don't think they're all dead. That'd be a bit of a crap get-out and wouldn't make sense, since only a few of them have the undead features - eating tons, not sleeping, necrosis, and also, well, having been dead.

Good show for lots of theorising though.

 

[haushoch]

I think the group Lena saw in the forest are all returned. We haven't seen any of those yet. I think it's them who turn up to see Lucy at the end of the last episode. The returned can't leave the valley for some reason, and everyone who's in the company of one of the returned can't leave either. My theory is that for every animal that drowned, a person returned. Why I have no idea.

 

[D'wards]

But are the returned all rotting away? Somethings happening to them eh?

What would have happened if they were cremated? The ashes would all come back together and turn into themselves again?

 

[Sue]

But are the returned all rotting away? Somethings happening to them eh?

What would have happened if they were cremated? The ashes would all come back together and turn into themselves again?

Surely why M da Costa burnt his house down? How many times had she come back before..?

 

[scifisam]

Surely why M da Costa burnt his house down? How many times had she come back before..?

My GF thinks she's come back before too. It would explain why she tells a different story about every time she died.

I wonder if Victor's brother survived? We only heard two shots. He'd be about 45 now.

 

[Santino]

We've had not a hint of a dickybird of a suggestion as to why the policeman saw his own face on the CCTV when he was watching Adele and Simon together.

 

[Sue]

My GF thinks she's come back before too. It would explain why she tells a different story about every time she died.

I wonder if Victor's brother survived? We only heard two shots. He'd be about 45 now.

Yep and also why her husband reacted as he did -- he knew how it was going to go and couldn't face it again. Would also explain why she's so blase about what happens next. (Are the returned a sign things are about to go horribly wrong or the case of them going horribly wrong? )

 

[scifisam]

We've had not a hint of a dickybird of a suggestion as to why the policeman saw his own face on the CCTV when he was watching Adele and Simon together.

We were seeing it through his eyes and he was imagining himself there?

 

[Santino]

We were seeing it through his eyes and he was imagining himself there?

He seemed genuinely confused/disturbed/frightened though.

 

[belboid]

I wonder if Victor's brother survived? We only heard two shots. He'd be about 45 now.

45? how do you make that out? There's not really been much of a clue as to when the murders took place,nor how old Vics bro was at the time, has there?

 

[haushoch]

Yep and also why her husband reacted as he did -- he knew how it was going to go and couldn't face it again. Would also explain why she's so blase about what happens next. (Are the returned a sign things are about to go horribly wrong or the case of them going horribly wrong? )

The way the series has been so far I don't think they are going for those sorts of twists. I reckon the husband reacted the way he did, because he was totally freaked out by her returning. Just imagine you have been a widower for 40 years and suddenly your wife reappears and she's unchanged from the day she died. Maybe he thought he had gone mad or something and that's why he set the house on fire with her in and killed himself afterwards. I think she's so blase about it all, because for her it must have been equally horrible to come back and have her husband tie her to a bed and then set her alight (at that point maybe she didn't know that she couldn't die again). Not the sort of thing you'd expect from someone who married you. So now she's just cynical. She can't change anything, as she knows she won't die again and there's no-one there who cares about her. And in regards to her telling tall tales about her death, maybe she just doesn't remember how she died. Neither Simon, Camille or Serge seemed to understand that they had died and had come back. They only found out from others how they had died.

 

[mrsfran]

45? how do you make that out? There's not really been much of a clue as to when the murders took place,nor how old Vics bro was at the time, has there?

Yes we have. In the flashback to Victor's murder it said "30 years ago".

 

[Reno]

The way the series has been so far I don't think they are going for those sorts of twists. I reckon the husband reacted the way he did, because he was totally freaked out by her returning. Just imagine you have been a widower for 40 years and suddenly your wife reappears and she's unchanged from the day she died. Maybe he thought he had gone mad or something and that's why he set the house on fire with her in and killed himself afterwards. I think she's so blase about it all, because for her it must have been equally horrible to come back and have her husband tie her to a bed and then set her alight (at that point maybe she didn't know that she couldn't die again). Not the sort of thing you'd expect from someone who married you. So now she's just cynical. She can't change anything, as she knows she won't die again and there's no-one there who cares about her. And in regards to her telling tall tales about her death, maybe she just doesn't remember how she died. Neither Simon, Camille or Serge seemed to understand that they had died and had come back. They only found out from others how they had died.

That's what I think as well. People seem to expect a show like this will be full of twists and I've been reading all sorts of wild theories, but I don't think that's what the show is about. It's more of a character study about how average people would react to a supernatural occurrance.

And having seen the whole thing I already anticipate complaints that the last episode of the first season doesn't explain much, though I thought the ending was satisfying and eery.

 

[belboid]

Yes we have. In the flashback to Victor's murder it said "30 years ago".

good point! Checking back, its Victors father whose survival we dont know about

 

[belboid]

That's what I think as well. People seem to expect a show like this will be full of twists and I've been reading all sorts of wild theories, but I don't think that's what the show is about. It's more of a character study about how average people would react to a supernatural occurrance.

And having seen the whole thing I already anticipate complaints that the last episode of the first season doesn't explain much, though I thought the ending was satisfying and eery.

well, I'd be grateful if you could stop telling us what doesn't happen. Thats the third time you've given (rather minor) spoilers

 

[Reno]

well, I'd be grateful if you could stop telling us what doesn't happen. Thats the third time you've given (rather minor) spoilers

I don't get the excessive spoiler oversensitivness people have on the Internet. I didn't give away a single thing, but I suppose you'd rather sit there hoping for a crap reveal. I don't see why people on the Internet need to be sooo much more sensitive than the rest of the media like newspaper reviews. Considering it's known that this is an ongoing series, why would you think everything will get resolved at the end of season 1 ?

 

[mrsfran]

I don't get the excessive spoiler oversensitivness people have on the Internet. I didn't give away a single thing, but I suppose you'd rather sit there hoping for a crap reveal. I don't see why people on the Internet need to be sooo much more sensitive than the rest of the media like newspaper reviews.

It's because you're taking away some of the fun of speculation. "Will it be this? Will it be that?". "No, it won't be." "Oh."

I can avoid spoilers in media reviews by not reading them. Whereas this is a thread specifically for people who haven't yet seen the whole thing. The nice thing would be to let people have their speculative fun.

 

[belboid]

I don't get the excessive spoiler oversensitivness people have on the Internet. I didn't give away a single thing, but I suppose you'd rather sit there hoping for a crap reveal. I don't see why people on the Internet need to be sooo much more sensitive than the rest of the media like newspaper reviews.

No, I just want to watch the show unfold in its own time. Which means without someone who has watched the whole thing going 'oh, that means this....' or 'we dont find that out'

But as you dont feel that way, I'll just tell you everything that happens in the half season of Breaking Bad you havent seen yet.