Yesterday I saw a picture that stopped me dead in my tracks. Then I discovered it was a mind blowing film called District 9.Set in South Africa where blacks and whites were once segregated - this film leverages off that legacy to depict a new form of apartheid between aliens and humans. The tagline is "You are not welcome here." The logline could be "Alien Apartheid".
Have a look at the trailer here, and also this one.
Those of you who know a little about South Africa will know the film title is taken from "District 6", which was a multi-racial area in Cape Town that was subject to violent forced removal and flattened during the bad dark days of Apartheid.
This is a gritty new look at aliens, and I think it has a lot more potential. What this space!
For those of you who are interested in accents, try this one at the end of the clip (in the field "Watch out for me") for one of the real accents right from the horses mouth.
Useful websites:
http://d-9.com/
http://multinationalunited.com/
http://www.mnuspreadslies.com/
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