Desventuras em série - De carona no cinema

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Li o primeiro livro desta coleção no começo dos meus 20 anos; e adorei! Foi indicação da minha tia jornalista que sempre tinha ótimos livros na estante de casa; sempre que íamos almoçar na casa da minha avó, eu nunca esquecia de dar uma passadinha no quarto dos fundos e, com cara de pidona, pegar um ou outro emprestado.

Não lembro porque deixei de ler os outros livros da série, não adianta nem fazer suposições, não lembro mesmo.

Mas lembro que fiquei super feliz quando anunciaram a estréia do filme. Na época eu não conhecia ninguém que sabia sobre os livros e ver que fizeram um filme de uma história que só eu (será que eu tinha poucos amigos na época? È uma hipótese...) tinha lido foi demais!

Digamos que não seja um filme para crianças muito pequenas; eu o considero uma super produção cheia de efeitos especiais e trilha musical forte, por conta da própria história; mas acho que os mais crescidinhos vão adorar! Ter Jim Carrey no elenco sempre vale “perder” umas horinhas.

Título original: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

País: USA | Germany

Linguagem: English

Data de estréia: 21 January 2005

Gêneros: Aventura, comédia e Fantasia

Diretor: Brad Silberling

Escritores: Robert Gordon (roteiro), Daniel Handler (livros)

Sinopse

Klaus (Liam Aiken), Violet (Emily Browning) e Sunny (Kara Hoffman e Shelby Hoffman) são três irmãos que repentinamente recebem a notícia de que seus pais morreram em um incêndio. Como são menores de idade eles não podem ainda herdar a fortuna de seus pais, o que apenas ocorrerá quando Violet, a mais velha, completar 18 anos. O trio passa então a morar com o Conde Olaf (Jim Carrey), um parente distante bastante ganancioso, que deseja tomar a fortuna das crianças para si. Para atingir sua meta Olaf não medirá consequências.

Elenco

        Jim Carrey                     ...    Count Olaf

        Liam Aiken                    ...    Klaus

        Emily Browning              ...    Violet

        Kara Hoffman                ...    Sunny

        Shelby Hoffman              ...    Sunny

        Jude Law                       ...    Lemony Snicket (voice)

        Timothy Spall                 ...    Mr. Poe

        Catherine O'Hara           ...    Justice Strauss

        Billy Connolly                 ...    Uncle Monty

        Meryl Streep                  ...    Aunt Josephine

        Luis Guzmán                  ...    Bald Man (as Luis Guzman)

        Jamie Harris                  ...    Hook-Handed Man

        Craig Ferguson               ...    Person of Indeterminate Gender

        Jennifer Coolidge           ...    White Faced Woman

        Jane Adams                   ...    White Faced Woman

Prêmios

OSCAR
Ganhou
Melhor Maquiagem

Indicações
Melhor Direção de Arte
Melhor Figurino
Melhor Trilha Sonora

MTV MOVIE AWARDS
Indicação
Melhor Vilão - Jim Carrey

Curiosidades:

O roteiro de Desventuras Em Série é uma adaptação de "A Series of Unfortunate Events", nome de uma série de 13 livros de autoria de Daniel Handler.

A Nickelodeon Movies comprou os direitos de adaptação para o cinema de "A Series of Unfortunate Events" em 2000. Como logo em seguida a Warner iniciou a produção de Harry Potter e a Pedra Filosofal, que tinha o mesmo público-alvo da série de Daniel Handler, a Nickelodeon decidiu por adiar o projeto por alguns anos.

Inicialmente seria Barry Sonnenfeld o diretor de Desventuras em Série, que deixou o projeto devido a problemas de orçamento.

Os atores Johnny Depp, Emma Thompson e Joan Cusack estiveram cotados para atuar em Desventuras em Série. A atriz Christy Carlson Romano esteve cotada para interpretar a personagem Violet.

A maquiagem usada por Jim Carrey em Desventuras em Série levava 3 horas para ser preparada.

O estranho carro visto no trailer é um modelo Tatra 603, fabricado na antiga Tchecoslováquia e usado como limusine pelo Partido Comunista local. O carro foi desenhado em 1955, sendo que o modelo exibido no filme foi fabricado entre 1968 e 1975.

Durante as filmagens, o ator Liam Aikne, na época com 13 anos de idade, cresceu 11 cm, o que fez com que todo seu figurino precisasse de ajustes. No fim do filme ele é visivelmente mais alto que Emily Browning, que interpreta sua irmã mais velha.

Director Brad Silberling admitted on the director's commentary that in some scenes the stand-ins for Kara Hoffman and Shelby Hoffman, the Knight babies, often appeared on camera instead of the original twins (but with their faces covered slightly).

In the stairwell where we first meet Count Olaf, there is a portrait of Olaf in Shakespearian garb, reaching out with his hand. This is almost an exact duplicate of a picture of John Barrymore playing "Hamlet".

When Count Olaf locks the orphans in the car, you can briefly see the words, "Last Chance" painted on the slanted roof. The Last Chance General Store was featured in the eighth book, "The Hostile Hospital".

The movie has elements from the first three books, "The Bad Beginning", "The Reptile Room", and "The Wide Window".

Early in pre-production, Scott Rudin was attached to produce this movie, with Barry Sonnenfeld as director. Rudin later left the project over "budgetary conflicts", and Sonnenfeld left soon after. However, both are still credited as executive producers.

Triplets were originally cast to play the role of Sunny Baudelaire. But when the trio developed stage fright and separation anxiety and would do nothing but cry, they were replaced by twins Shelby Hoffman and Kara Hoffman.

In the film, Liam Aiken's character's home burns to the ground. During the premiere, Liam got word that his house was on fire.

When the children first meet Count Olaf and Jim Carrey says, "Wait, give me that last line again," was not actually in the script, it was Carrey staying in character and wanting to try it again, but they kept the cameras rolling and felt it worked the way it happened.

After scouring ballet schools looking for a girl to play Violet Baudelaire, the casting director was exercising at the gym when she spotted Emily Browning on television, and decided to get her for an audition.

Filming stopped on several occasions after one of the twins playing Sunny (Shelby Hoffman and Kara Hoffman) fell asleep.

Originally, Brad Silberling wanted Sunny to be pure CGI. While he eventually used real babies for the part, at least four of Sunny's scenes have a CG baby because they would be impossible or dangerous for a real child to do. Among these are shots of Sunny hanging on to a table by her teeth, and catching a spindle with her mouth, and the scene where she is entangled with the Incredibly Deadly Viper.

The movie was entirely filmed on soundstages, even the "exterior" scenes, which involved 360 degree sets and lots of blue screens.

Industrial Light and Magic did over 505 visual effects-shots for this movie.

Tim Burton was attached to direct at some point, with Johnny Depp playing Count Olaf and Glenn Close playing Aunt Josephine. When Tim Burton left the project, Johnny Depp left as well. Brad Silberling replaced Glenn Close, feeling that Meryl Streep would be better for the role. Streep accepted the role of Aunt Josephine upon the request of her daughter, a huge fan of the books.

According to the illustrations in the original books, Violet wears a dress with the V-cuffed lower sleeves (a very common attire in space operas), Klaus wears a sweater with a button-down shirt underneath, and Sunny wears a small dress. The orphans' costumes in the movie are noticeably different.

It is the first Nickelodeon Movie to win an Academy Award.

Each Baudelaire orphan has one major difference between their movie costume and flaw in their wardrobe as described in the books. Klaus in the books is nearly blind without his glasses while, in the movie they are only needed for reading. Sunny in the books hated wearing a pink dress, but in the film her dress had a lot of pink in it. Violet in the book was unable to put braids in her hair because they would stay together, but in the movie she has braids nearly the entire time.

Some of the chores seen on the list of chores given to the Baudelaires by Count Olaf: 1. Fix the rear porch so it is back to code, 2. Dust and clean all the very important pictures of myself, 3. Clean the staircase, 4. Reupholster the living room sofa, 5. Dust and polish the wood furniture throughout the house, 6. Do all the laundry and make sure you separate the whites, the colors, and the polyesters (make sure to take special care with my costumes and delicate), 7. Iron all the clothes, 8. Sew buttons on clothes that are missing them, 9. Clean mirrors above my makeup table taking care that there are no streaks, 10. Wash the steps on the porch, 11. Prune trees in the front yard, and not to mention, 172. Prepare a delicious dinner for myself and my troupe

Brad Silberling describes the end credits as the Baudelaire children's dream (as they were sleeping in the last scene) of restless pursuit of Count Olaf. He also admits that the animations for the credits were finished one week before the movie's premiere.

Sham is another word for a false idea.

Violet tries to sign the marriage document with her left hand and Count Olaf says "Right hand please". This is a reference to the book in which Violet does sign the document with her left hand, after which Justice Stauss declares the marriage invalid since she did not sign it in her "own hand".

Violet tries to sign the marriage document with her left hand and Count Olaf says "Right hand please". This is a reference to the book in which Violet does sign the document with her left hand, after which Justice Stauss declares the marriage invalid since she did not sign it in her "own hand".

According to the letter the children receive at the end of the film, the Baudelaire Mansion, is at 23 Prospero Place, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

During the final act of the film, the play performed by Count Olaf, "The Marvelous Marriage" is written by a man named Al Funcoot. Al Funcoot is an anagram of Count Olaf.

Whenever Sunny bites something, we hear her bite, but don't see her bite it.

Meryl Streep's character makes "grammatical" errors in her suicide letter, which are in fact spelling mistakes rather than grammatical errors. This is ironic seeing as she is purportedly a stickler for such things.

In Aunt Josephine's supposed suicide note, she purposely included spelling errors as a code for Klaus. She also misuses "it's" instead of "its", which is not one of the clues. However, in the book it is explained that the misuse of "it's" and "its" was to get their attention and prompt them to discover the real meaning.

Referências:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0339291/

http://www.adorocinema.com/filmes/filme-46317/