With relations between the sexes having recently hit a dispiriting cultural low (news avoiders may consult Time Magazine’s helpful round-up “Are Women People?” for cringe-inducing details), now is as good a time as any to ask and perhaps answer the burning question, “Why don’t women narrate movie trailers?” Conveniently, the BBC is here to offer some insights.
It all sounds like a bunch of chauvinist shit-shoveling to me, but your mileage may vary. All I know is that newly, criminally deposed NYC news anchor Sue Simmons could turn this trend around in about a week flat with the right agent. Let’s go, Sue!
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“We must never forget our history,” Leonardo DiCaprio warns in the brand new trailer for J. Edgar. Conveniently, this narrative demand means that you should probably see the very biographical drama from director Clint Eastwood that this trailer advertises. Take a look at DiCaprio as FBI director J. Edgar Hoover below in the film’s first trailer.
To see the trailer in high definition, head on over to Apple. Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar will follow the career of J. Edgar Hoover from the Palmer Raids onwards. The Warner Bros. picture also stars Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts and Judi Dench and is scheduled to arrive in U.S. theaters on November 9.
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