3 posts tagged “viral sites”
Such a tenuous, but the rise of viral sites in the cinematic community continues with this interesting selection for Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight. Check them out here at Joblo.com
Some of them make sense with the nice clash between the Gotham Times and the Joker's vandalised version while others, Remembering Gina, offer up more questions than they provide. Like any good viral should.
Well, let this be an end to it then. Those interesting Lovecraftian viral sites, may well be legitimate virals, just not for Abrams' Cloverfield flick. It's a shame AICN had to get a little haughty in reporting all of this, but that's the nature of online journalism. Everything moves so fast that one assumes you can take credit and that nobody will notice.
One thing the article highlights is the danger of using virals to promote new cinematic releases. So much buzz can be generated by a single site that before any confirmation has been given fans have made a judgement, and expectation starts to buzz and clamour. It makes an interesting comment on the relationship of author to creation, especially if the fans react badly to the probable news that Cloverfield will have nothing to do with Cthulhu. A great shame, as this looks like a genuine attempt at bringing the cinematic world something new.
It's a warning to us all not to get too excited, and let the mind wander too far from what few facts we have.
Going to see Transformers last weekend you might have thought the main event was a titan robot extravaganza; a Bay-fest of kinetic camera work and atomic explosions. Well, you'd be wrong. The real experience was the teaser trailer for a mysterious new film from the creator of the hugely successful and mysterious Lost, JJ Abrams. Cloverfield or 'Para-site', as it's become known, looks to be as equally cryptic as the aforementioned Lost. Early reports, and the teaser trailer that premiered before Transformers suggested it was some kind of monster/disaster movie, but as TheGamingLife suggests, there's a whole lot more to it.
Along with the teaser, it reports of three viral sites that have sprung up
http://www.ethanhaaswasright.com/
http://ethanhaaswaswrong.blogspot.com/
I checked out the first viral, and after a bit of fiddling with a strange sphere that opens up after you punch in a sequence of strange, mystic characters, you get a video that suggests Nostradamus like predictions by the eponymous Ethan Haas. The sites also throw out words like, "Mezin", "Alhazred", and references to a "Mad" prophet which immediately suggest the Cthulhu mythos, Lovecraft and the Old Ones.
Very exciting, as although the teaser looks great, and has produced an amazing response, this adds a further layer of interest and intrigue. The video asks to spread the word and get more people onboard so please, check the sites and let's help build some momentum.
If you want to know the result of completing the various puzzles, check here for a report from Joblo.com
The fact that Paramount have asked for the in-game videos to be removed from YouTube confirms that this isn't just fanfict, at least not as a completely unauthorised project.
