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If Steve Martin's Surrogate Was A Woman, Would He Just Stay Home?

By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (14)

So a few new pictures were leaked for Surrogates, the upcoming sci-fi film in which people live their lives remotely through robotic copies of themselves, the first murder in years occurs, and drama ensues. The studio describes the surrogate copies as “sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves.” Not to nitpick, but if they’re perfect representations, most of them would not be sexy. If technology is invented that allows us to have robotic surrogates, how many people would actually want their own body? Put your hand back down, have you looked in the mirror lately?

The rest of the pics are up at SciFi Wire, but two jump out.

Meh. Publicity photos are supposed to look more intriguing than the film actually is, otherwise they’re counterproductive. This looks like almost like an amateur photoshop job. But that’s not the worst of it:

Why in the world did they give Bruce Willis republican hair?

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Maybe bald isn't sexy in the future?

Posted by: Deistbrawler at August 26, 2009 8:17 PM

Well, yeah, they kinda completely missed the point of the graphic novel, where lots of people DO have completely different bodies than theirs actually are, sometimes for comedic factor (a guy uses his sexy slutty female surrogate to get laid as a woman) and other times for social commentary (a female CEO uses a male surrogate to be taken more seriously).

Don't get me wrong, I wasn't super-thrilled with the graphic novel or anything, but it sounds like they've completely missed the entire point and are instead going for stupid action movie pretending it's noir. In the GN, people don't actually die when their surrogates do - the surrogate killer, Steeplejack (who looks way cooler than just some douche in a motorcycle helmet), just kills the surrogates, that's it. And people freak out and their whole lives are disrupted over what is essentially just another expensive gadget. It's... kind of the whole point of the story.

It's that thing. Y'know. Social commentary or whatever. Totally not important and only gets in the way of, LIKE, A TOTES AWESOME MOVIE TIME.

Sigh.

Posted by: Nat at August 26, 2009 8:34 PM

There are, I think, three movies with similar ideas coming out. This one, Gamer, and Avatar - all with non human representations of a human counterpart. I thought it was odd after seeing all three trailers at the movies last weekend.

Bruce Willis just looks silly.

Posted by: Cindy at August 26, 2009 9:06 PM

The new trailer shows that some people do get surrogates that look different than themselves.

Posted by: Jared at August 26, 2009 10:44 PM

omg! that's radha mitchell! what the hell is that wig?

Posted by: gp at August 27, 2009 12:08 AM

Cindy!

Hearkens back to the Leviathan/Deep Star Six/ Abyss glory days of '89, doesn't it?

Posted by: monitorman at August 27, 2009 12:15 AM

The lighting and everything else in that second picture looks like something from the SyFy channel.

Posted by: alphawhiskey at August 27, 2009 12:17 AM

"sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves.” Not to nitpick, but if they’re perfect representations, most of them would not be sexy.

Now are they perfect representations, or just physically perfect? Seems like that needed a comma or something to make sense.

Not that I care. This looks awful. I'm just easily amused in the grammar dept.

Posted by: Anne (in Reno) at August 27, 2009 12:59 AM

Good point, monitorman.

Posted by: Cindy at August 27, 2009 7:42 AM

Because Bruce IS a Republican?

Posted by: Arran at August 27, 2009 8:33 AM

Because republicans have better sex.

Look it up.

Posted by: hater from siloam springs at August 27, 2009 9:41 AM

That hair looks more like Hugh Grant in 3 Weddings and a Funeral hair.

Posted by: BWeaves at August 27, 2009 10:12 AM

I think he has republican hair because that's the surrogate and he's supposed to be an FBI agent. I'm more curious about why he isn't wearing a better suit, if the idea is to present a perfect image.

The craptastic photoshop job on the female surrogate makes me wonder how that tube thingy on the outside of her breast doesn't show through the skin. Couldn't the designers have made all the plumbing interior?

Frankly, if I got to pick any sort of surrogate I wanted, I'd want to look more like the Diva in The Fifth Element. Or, if human was what I was going for, Claudia Black in Farscape. I know what it's like to look like me, so where's the fun in that?

Posted by: Reba at August 27, 2009 10:19 AM

I recall the episode of arrested development where George had a surrogate and I lose any possible respect for this film.

Posted by: Enochroot at August 27, 2009 1:36 PM

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