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The remake of the Hong Kong film “Jian Gui”, a woman who receives an eye transplant that allows her to see into the supernatural world.

The history:

Sydney Wells, at the start of the film, is a successful classical violinist, although blind since the age of 5. She and her sister had been playing with fireworks and they had been set off too close to her face, damaging her corneas.

Now, nearly 20 years later, Sydney undergoes a cornea transplant which causes her vision, albeit blurry, to begin returning. At first, she is confused and disoriented, unable to understand if what she sees is “real” or not. During her first night with her new eyes, her bedmate at the hospital dies, and Sydney, not understanding, watches her blurry figure being led away by someone else. During her stay, she also befriends a young girl named Alicia, who is there undergoing surgery for a brain tumor.

As time goes on, Sydney’s vision begins to clear up and she struggles to understand the new world around her. Her therapist, Paul Faulkner, feels that her strange visions are her mind’s way of interpreting what it was never able to before: including visions of fire, death, and the number ’106′. Her bedroom walls keep changing to stone and back again, and she sees what appears to be the ghosts of people around her, including a young woman who walks right through her in the street just before she sees her body lying on the ground.

When a Chinese diner suddenly explodes around her, she finds herself in the charred remains. She learns that the accident that burned the diner down occurred weeks prior, revealing that her visions are of the past. Fleeing back to her apartment, she viciously smashes every light source and covers her windows (and eyes). Days later, her therapist forces his way in and removes her blinds, telling her to return to the real world.

Upon discovering that the face that appears in the mirror is not her own (which she finds out through photographs of her in the past), she becomes desperate to figure out who and what is sending her these visions. She begs Paul for help and finally convinces him to drive her to Mexico (at the risk of losing his medical license), in order to find out what happened to her donor, Ana Cristina Martinez.

They go to Ana Christina’s house where they meet her mother, whose face looks slightly deformed. Sydney then sees a shadow behind Ana Christina’s mother just as she has a heart attack. As Paul takes her to the hospital, Sydney goes into Ana Christina’s room and sees more images. It turns out that young girl had committed suicide after failing to stop a factory fire that killed many of the people in the village and severely injured her own mother. After the fire, the deeply superstitious villagers, who had seen her crying outside the homes of people who were to die, believed she caused the disaster, and drove her to hang herself, calling her a witch and throwing stones at her.

Sydney and Paul return to the United States to discover the border is closed due to a high-speed chase on the other side. Dozens of vehicles are left stranded behind the closed gates. In the middle of the group of cars is a gas tanker with the number “106″ on the front and a camper with a young girl in it. Sydney puts the pieces together and realizes the images she kept seeing – the number 106, the bells, and the girl trapped in a fire – weren’t of the past, but of the future. She rushes out of the car, screaming at everyone to flee, telling them a bomb is on the bus. The people listen and flee, just as a car smashes through the police barriers and collides with the gas tanker. The tanker begins to leak gas and a spark causes the tanker to explode, destroying every vehicle in a chain-reaction down the highway. Sydney’s eyes are injured by flying glass during the explosion, and she ends up blind again but glad to have used her visions to save lives and give Ana peace.

SHE may have shot to fame alongside Ioan Gruffudd as a Hollywood superhero but Jessica Alba’s latest movie experience was far less glamorous.

For horror movie The Eye, not only did she have to play a top-class concert violinist, but also a woman who has been blind since childhood.

So intense was the filming experience that Alba endured “a lot of sleeplessness” during the shoot.

In preparation, Alba spent six months learning to play the violin, as well as visiting blind orientation centres and mixing with blind people.

It’s all a far cry from the glitzy, glamorous image conveyed by the glossy Hollywood movies that have made her famous – the two Fantastic Four movies (which saw her pucker up to Cardiff-born Gruffudd), Sin City and Into The Blue.

But then, despite huge success as one of the industry’s hottest young female stars, Alba is, in her own words, something of a perfectionist when it comes to the day job – and also a realist.

“First and foremost, I’m an actress, so if I’m playing a violinist no-one’s saying I have to be absolutely note-perfect all day long while we’re filming,” explains Alba, who will be 27 on Monday .

“Obviously you’re not going to pick up an instrument that complex in so short an amount of time. But I wanted to get it right. I couldn’t have the audience think that I wasn’t playing. I practised so much. And we were shooting nights, so my days ended when everyone else’s started. It’s kind of impossible to sleep at seven in the morning with the sun spilling into your room!”

Alba is expecting a child in May with her film-producer fiancé, 28-year-old Cash Warren, whom she met while making Fantastic Four. Other heavily pregnant starlets might not have turned up to promote their latest movie, but you quickly get the impression that The Eye is a fairly substantial project in the Alba canon – and indeed very different from her usual, more mainstream fare.

“It was the most interesting female role I’ve ever read,” says Alba. “And it’s certainly not your average, typical horror movie. It’s more about a young woman who is faced with things that she really cannot explain, and who fears that she is losing her mind and her grip on sanity.”

The film is, in fact, a remake of a cult 2002 Chinese supernatural horror movie. Alba’s character, Sydney Wells is an acclaimed violinist, blind since a tragic childhood accident, who decides to undergo a double corneal transplant, in the hope of regaining her sight.

The operation is successful, and Sydney can see for the first time in 20 years. But her happiness is short-lived as she starts to be haunted by inexplicable shady visions and frightening images alien to her own life and circumstances. “Are you seeing dead people?” asks her doctor in a knowing reference to The Sixth Sense. Of course she can – and this is what has made the film such a hit at the US box office.

California-born Alba has turned down more than a few “slasher” movies before now, but she considers The Eye to be several notches above that cynical, money-grabbing genre.

“A lot of horror movies have girls running away from a guy who is torturing them or kidnapping them,” she explains. “There’s always much more a victim stance when it comes to the female character and it usually involves crying and screaming.

“I found The Eye a far more fascinating and complex scenario. It’s not about gore, it’s about suspense and psychological tension. When I read it, I realised it didn’t need to have people’s body parts being ripped apart, it didn’t need cursing and it didn’t need sex. I thought it was a complete, terrifying experience without those things that would make it an 18-rated movie.”

Alba does, however, claim to be an avid fan of more traditional Hollywood horror. “One of the first movies I ever remember watching was Nightmare On Elm Street – I think I was about four and a half,” she confesses with a laugh. “It gave me nightmares until I was 13. My parents didn’t know, nor did they approve, obviously. I was a sneaky child, I hid behind the couch and watched the whole thing. Later that night, I insisted on sleeping in bed with them; if I was going to be sucked into the bed into some netherworld, I was going to be with them!

“Later on, I loved movies like Psycho, The Birds, It, Poltergeist, Rosemary’s Baby, The Ring – those kind of movies are more my speed than people getting mutilated and chopped into bits.” Alba started taking her violin lessons for The Eye while she was shooting the second Fantastic Four movie. “I had to train for months just to learn how to hold the bow and instrument properly and that’s only half the battle,” she grimaces. “I’m playing complicated classical pieces in the film, so I had to learn how to play the actual notes.”

Equally challenging, of course, was playing a woman who is blind. Alba spent time living at the New Mexico Commission for the Blind, where she learned basic Braille reading, and received training under the guidance of a certified orientation mobility instructor.

“I also spent time with a woman around my age who’s a musician herself and who’s been blind since she was three,” reveals Alba. “She travels all around the world on her own, and she doesn’t have a guide or a dog. Just observing her and spending time with her, she was pretty much my inspiration for my character.”

After Alba’s extensive musical preparation for the role, might a back-up career as a violinist beckon? “Never in a million years,” she laughs. “It’s the most difficult instrument on the planet. I did six months of extensive training with three different violin teachers, and these are women who’ve been playing since they were three years old, all of them. They are all in orchestras, and they still practise eight hours a day. I just simply don’t have that amount of dedication, to be honest.”

The Eye is in cinemas now!!!

As I was saying, let’s just remeber the past, let’s just remeber 2005. The year when F4 came to the Cinema.

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 He says:

“I’m pretty sure we won’t do [another] one,” insisted “Fantastic Four” star Chris Evans, who excelled in two films as the Human Torch. “I’m assuming that one is a closed book.”

But….some two or 3 weeks ago both Jessica Alba and Michael Chiklis have expressed a strong desire to come back with a FF3.

Still, Evans confessed that he does want to leave the door a little ajar, citing Marvel’s recent success with character cross-pollination. If “Spider-Man” or “Hulk” came to him with a cameo, he’s be the first on board.

“Absolutely,” he enthused. “If Johnny Storm wanted to make a pop in appearance in one of those movies that would be a treat.”

I think the story haven’t yes finished, but in some 2 or 3 years wecan have maybe a new fantastic four tema. Who knows? Or I am wrong?

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So, Let’s see the true origin of the movie

It all started with a rushed test flight of an experimental spacecraft. Years before, while a student at Empire State University, Reed Richards began working on plans for one of the first vehicles capable interstellar travel. His roommate and best friend, Benjamin Grimm, jokingly promised to pilot the craft. But Reed, after studying to be an aeronautical engineer, finally realized his lifelong dream. Exhausting the majority of his vast inheritance, he funded the construction and launch of such a starship. Other financers, particularly the U.S. government, however, were losing interest and they threatened to cut him off from their funding of the project. Reed embarked on an immediate test flight, taking Ben Grimm with him who had become a successful Air Force pilot. Reed’s longtime sweetheart and fiancée, Susan Storm, and her brother, Johnny, also joined them. Ben opposed the idea, warning that the ship’s shielding might prove inadequate against intense forms of cosmic radiation.

Nevertheless, Reed persuaded them all to accompany him, stealing into the launch facility, boarding the starship, and blasting off in pursuit of scientific glory. They intended to travel to another star system and back, but a solar flare temporarily boosted the intensity of the ionizing radiation in Earth’s Van Allen belt.

The spaceship encountered a bombardment of cosmic radiation, causing both the mission to be aborted and the craft to crash. Emerging from the ruins of the spaceship, they discovered the radiation had mutated their bodies. Reed gained the ability to stretch his body and limbs, Johnny was able to fly and become engulfed in flame, and Sue was able to bend light around her body and become invisible. Ben, on the other hand, gained incredible strength and durability at the cost of being severely disfigured. All four decided to use their powers to better humanity and founded the Fantastic Four.

From this, lots and losts of episodes were made, such as happens with Super-Man, Spider Man!

Alba does not have one simple craving. The 26-year-old craves food. Any type of food.

“Every couple of hours I turn into Satan if I don’t eat something,” Alba laughed during an interview in Los Angeles.

Wearing a red empire-waisted Gucci dress that exposes a slight baby bump, Alba believes “the gods answered my prayers” when she became pregnant to fiance Cash Warren last year.

The couple met while making the original Fantastic Four film four years ago.

“I was in shock at first,” Alba said when she first saw the positive pregnancy test.

“But we’re so happy.

“My family, everyone, are just thrilled.

“It all seems to be perfect timing.

“Everything fell into place the way it was meant to.”

A paparazzi favourite, particularly because of her expanding waistline, Alba is chased around Los Angeles every time she leaves her Hollywood Hills home.

Despite growing up in front of the public eye – she made her first movie when she was 14 – Alba is baffled by the attention she receives from photographers who trail her car to the supermarket or on other expeditions.

“When I started acting it wasn’t this bad,” Alba said.

“It’s bizarre and it seems like anybody can go buy a camera and call themselves a paparazzi and stalk people for a living.

“It’s really strange.

“I’m not doing anything interesting or salacious.

“I’m not trying to be out there.

“I’m just going to the gym or getting my groceries, normal stuff.”
Alba studied organ transplants and visited patients during her preparation for the film.

“It fascinated me that you can get an organ transplant and take on someone else’s experiences,” she said.

“It really happens, not necessarily with corneal transplants but with other organs.

“That was a really interesting thing to explore and to play someone who was so independent and so sure of herself with this handicap, but when she becomes sighted that’s when the real handicap comes into play and I just love that reverse mentality of it.”

* The Eye opens in Australia on March 27.

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Anyway, here is a trailer with the movie. This, yes is legal.

This trailer, passed everywhere in the world, i’ts a must see.

FANTASTIC FOUR – RISE OF SILVER SURFER

The Silver Surfer has appeared in countless Marvel comics over the years, but has also made the transition beyond the printed page to the small screen as part of the animated Fantastic Four series that aired on ABC from 1967 – 1969, as well as appearing in the Fantastic Four cartoon that ran from 1994 – 1996. The Surfer also appears as a secret, unlockable character in the 2006 video game Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, and will be portrayed as a live action character for the first time in 2007’s Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver, the sequel to the 2005 film Fantastic Four.