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Let's All Try Out Our Gay Voice!

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (17)

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I don’t know how many of you got the chance to see the first trailer for I Love You, Phillip Morris, which we ran a few months ago. That particular trailer focused primarily on the relationship between Steven Russell (Jim Carrey) and Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor), which developed during a stint in prison. This trailer, however, puts its major focus on Steven as a con artist, which I suspect will be a little more mainstream friendly (I don’t think there’s a way to get completely around the gay angle in the trailer, though this one does not feature their, er, love-making).

Anyway, the movie is about a happily married man who has one of those gay epiphanies, and decides that he wants to live life to his gay fullest, even if that requires breaking the law. Said law breaking lands him in the clink, where he falls in love with Phillip Morris, and then develops con after con to get Phillip out of prison and create a perfect life together. I’m also fairly sure that the movie is darker than the trailer portends.

Anyway, the trailer looks OK. I like the premise, at least. But Carrey is depicting a character that doesn’t actually exist anywhere in the real world. I have no idea why he’s talking the way he is — is that his “gay” voice or something. Because, if it is, that’s a little tacky.

Now everyone: Try out your “gay” voices!

Check the trailer, and let me know what you think. The movie, which premiered during last year’s Sundance and has had a hell of a time finding a distributor, finally opens just in time for Valentine’s Day.










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Comments

Hmm. I can't decide. Something about it is completely charming, but I kind of want to bash everyone in the head. Story of my life, I guess.

Posted by: jamiepants at January 15, 2010 9:45 AM

needs more S's.

Posted by: gp at January 15, 2010 9:47 AM

McGregor!

Posted by: Supercomfypampertimefloatythrone at January 15, 2010 10:04 AM

Awwww, I so wanna see this!

Posted by: Bizarro Sofía at January 15, 2010 10:15 AM

I'm hearing an affected Midwest/Southern escapee-accent, not some attempt at a "gay voice," whatever the hell that's supposed to mean. It reminds me of someone I knew in NYC who escaped a small town in Texas as soon as he graduated high school and tried really hard to be everyone's friend. It's certainly not a coastal American accent, that's for certain. McGregor's putting on the limp wrist routine like his life depends on it, but Carrey's doing something a bit different.

Posted by: Robert at January 15, 2010 10:18 AM

The Brokeback Redemption?

Posted by: Eep at January 15, 2010 10:23 AM

Liking this feels like a trap...

Well it looks better than Yes Man so I'll probably go see it anyway.

Posted by: RonnyK at January 15, 2010 10:29 AM

In re the voice, my wife's co-worker is gay but paranoid about letting anyone in the office know (they all know), so he asked me about his voice, which is fairly similar to Carrey's voice in the trailer. He was concerned that it was a giveaway, soI told him basically what Robert is saying here, except that I would put that accent more in parts of Georgia (where the co-worker is from anyway). I can see where people would see it as a "gay voice" but there are plenty of straight guys out there with the accent I think he's trying to do. Maybe they picked it because it could be ambiguous?

Posted by: Eep at January 15, 2010 10:29 AM

Eep, I could see Georgia. I also think it's supposed to be ambiguous because Carrey puts on a lot of different accents in the trailer to the point that I find it hard to zero in on what would be the main voice of the character. There's a chance that even that is revealed as fake in the film later on.

Posted by: Robert at January 15, 2010 10:46 AM

Excellent point, Robert; he is a con man after all.

And now that I think about it I believe one of the football players I lived across from my freshman year had that same accent and I'm pretty sure he was from Texas, so it may just pop up all around the south.

Posted by: Eep at January 15, 2010 10:59 AM

Yeah, I'm actually not hearing much "gay" in his voice. It definitely just seems more Southern. He sounds like he could be Kenneth Parcell's cousin or something.

Posted by: kyle at January 15, 2010 1:48 PM

The thing I don't like about this movie is that he has a car accident, apparently gets hit on the head or something and when he comes to, he decides he's gay.

Sigh.

I know it's a movie and not meant to be taken seriously, but can we just NOT do things like this, people? No one gets hit on the head and changes sexual orientation.

The thing I like about this movie? Ewan McGregor.

Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at January 15, 2010 1:53 PM

And now, after having watched the second trailer, I'm amazed. How can they make it seem almost like a totally different movie from one trailer to the next?

Do you guys think that's a sign of a weak storyline?

If it is, I've got a new high school writing lesson idea brewing in my brain....

Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at January 15, 2010 1:56 PM

I don't want to watch Ewan MacGregor as a gay man. I want to watch him as a Straight man. Preferably as he nibbles his way down my body while putting his fingers...
Sorry.
Filter.

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at January 15, 2010 2:59 PM

Lindsey, take that thought to your bunk, please.

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Posted by: Helen at January 17, 2010 5:40 AM

Well, Lindsey, you'd better not watch Velvet Goldmine then.

Posted by: Rowen at January 18, 2010 10:28 PM