The short post this evening is necessitated by several factors: the arrival of Prince Dastan through my letterbox this morning (he parkoured his way in there) and the fact that Blogger is so overwhelmed by the hotness and agility of Jake Gyllenhaal in his Dastan leathers that it's making posting almost impossible. Nevertheless, I will battle through the red error messages emblazoned across the screen regardless and try and get this out before Blogger notices and without me having to chuck burning oil all over it. Here is a glimpse of one of the bits and pieces from the Blu-ray edition courtesy of MovieWeb.
This little parkour clip includes a bunch of Prince Dastans but not necessarily the Jake Gyllenhaal one. Some of the other clips from the Blu-ray are also available:
Unfortunately, I can't bring you more details of the other interactive pieces from the Blu-Ray because my software will allow me to access the list without actually being able to play them. However, it is clear from their names and the Behind the scenes feature on the DVD that some of these are duplicates and others can be found in that DVD extra. And it is superb! There is LOTS of Jake. With and without the straw hat. In Morocco and at Pinewood. [Update: There are bits and pieces that are new in the Blu-ray interactive extras and hopefully these will be available shortly as well. Notably, the visualisations of the dagger turning back time and the stunts; other features that stand out but without Jake are the recreations of Alamut.)
Interestingly, this feature is not on the 3-disc Blu-Ray DVD set. I have to say - Penny Rose (the costume designer), what an amazing woman and Jake does a great impression (if he doesn't want to wear a costume then someone else jolly well would!) - and in the behind the scenes we actually see one of Jake's big jumps. Not a stunt Jake, but Jake himself. I know, I couldn't do it. However, the vivid desert and oasis and exotic city colours of the Blu-ray are something to behold. IHJ has some screencaps from the video features above.
Mike Newell tells us again that with Jake he was expecting the great acting, the good looks but he was not expecting the all-round action hero that he got.
I have been able to see the 'Heads' deleted scene and we haven't missed much. Jake is in it only briefly - when he appears in Tamina's bedchamber to escort her into the king's presence (see the picture below from the Visual Guide). The rest of the scene does what it says on the tin - Garsiv presents some heads to the king with his usual charm.
Enjoy the DVD when it reaches you - now we have the power to turn back, fast forward and freeze time. Again and again. And again.
Speaking of Gemma Arterton, I saw Tamara Drewe yesterday and I've pondered about it over at MovieBrit today.
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Whoa, you surfaced much faster than I had expected! *big grin*
Thanks for the vids and the pictures. That fabulous "hair flow" is doing a good job at hiding who is the real Jake in the MovieWeb vid. ;-)
But ehm... my software will allow me to access the list without actually being able to play them. However, it is clear from their names and the Behind the scenes feature on the DVD that many of these are duplicates and much of it can be found in that DVD extra.???
What a bummer with the software - I hope it'll work out. But that 2nd part, that a lot of the extras are DVD extra duplicates? If I weren't so excited about my dvd arriving next week, I would be furious. This is no way to treat your customers, dear Disney.
Hey Lady Ekster! Good to see you :D What a day. I needed today to relax after still having this horrible cold and asthma and Jake and Dastan just did the trick, absolutely. Almost my whole day has been spent on PoP and it's been wonderful! I've surfaced because I can dive again :D
I have been able to work out the software due to my fabulous friend at www.bleedingcool.com who sent me a great link and now everything's fine. I haven't seen all the little snippets but there isn't much that's different, I just like to have access to everything I've paid for.
But yes, this release could have had much more. There's no commentary and the Blu-ray 3 set doesn't need the making of feature on the Blu-ray because it would be duplicated. Nevertheless, the quality of the Blu-ray version is so crystal clear. It's wonderful. But what matters is the film and the making of documentary and you can get both of those on the DVD. But I needed to find that out for myself, and now, I have! Wonderful.
I do believe still that we need to be in charge of Jake's DVDs. We would know exactly what to put on them :)
I was surprised seeing Jake jumping from one wooden pole to another. It looks so difficult, even if he has a wire. He really did have fun doing POP, I can imaging how challenging and exciting it was for him.
Today I watched the movie again, stopping and rewinding to take some pictures of Jake. :)
I'm glad for you WDW that you have such a crystal clear quality of Dastan.
I agree, they could give us much more extras, behind the scenes and commentaries.
Let's hope we can find more on LAOD.
"he parkoured his way in there" Couldn't have said any better myself! I have to wait 'til Tuesday :(
Hi there, When will Our POP Parkour himself over here or have I missed it?
I was surrounded by people from the UK this morning and of course others including Muslims who had relatives that had perished at tWorld Trade 9 years ago.
Of course if the DVD is here I'll be off to Best Buy or Amazon ASAP. Hardly any of our DVDs are buyable at a video store anymore. I suspect in 5 years or less there will be no more video stores. There are almost none large or small left in the city.
love you thanks for all the information.
love hun,
MIna
Morning everyone! A beautiful day :)
Hi Mermon, it is is so great to be able to rewind some of our favourite bits and some of those sequences are amazing. It looks like, from the extras, that Jake did many of the stunts himself - eg leaping across the posts, cutting free the horses - even if later a stuntman did them. There were lots of shots of him on wires. Must have been so much fun!
Not long to wait now, Georgie!
So good to see you, Mina! That must have been quite a day for you. It's nice to think of you being with the Brits too. It's good to think they're being looked after along with everyone else affected.
You haven't missed the DVD - it's out by you on Tuesday and ypu should be able to egt it anyway. Take care *)
Have a lovely Sunday everyone!
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