J.J. Abrams' Cloverfield Questions

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Someone posted this on another forum, he could be on to something.

The guy running in the trailer says something like "I saw it, it's a lion, it's huge!" The word at the end of the online puzzle is "DIVINUS". Which translated from Latin, I believe is superhuman(divine, deity, God). So I then Googled lion god and got "Sekhmet" which is the daughter of RA. A quick wikipedia search yielded this: Sekhmet was believed to protect the pharaoh in battle, stalking the land, and destroying his enemies with arrows of fire. Which in the trailer you see fire explosions and what looks like 'arrows of fire' shoot out from them.

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Someone posted this on another forum, he could be on to something.

The guy running in the trailer says something like "I saw it, it's a lion, it's huge!" The word at the end of the online puzzle is "DIVINUS". Which translated from Latin, I believe is superhuman(divine, deity, God). So I then Googled lion god and got "Sekhmet" which is the daughter of RA. A quick wikipedia search yielded this: Sekhmet was believed to protect the pharaoh in battle, stalking the land, and destroying his enemies with arrows of fire. Which in the trailer you see fire explosions and what looks like 'arrows of fire' shoot out from them.

I thought the guy said "I saw it! It's alive! It's huge!"

A lion would be pretty silly. A giant Lion capable of ripping the Statue of Liberty's head off and throwing it across Manhattan sounds odd. Freaky cool....but odd. Interesting idea on Sekhment though.

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Someone posted this on another forum, he could be on to something.

The guy running in the trailer says something like "I saw it, it's a lion, it's huge!" The word at the end of the online puzzle is "DIVINUS". Which translated from Latin, I believe is superhuman(divine, deity, God). So I then Googled lion god and got "Sekhmet" which is the daughter of RA. A quick wikipedia search yielded this: Sekhmet was believed to protect the pharaoh in battle, stalking the land, and destroying his enemies with arrows of fire. Which in the trailer you see fire explosions and what looks like 'arrows of fire' shoot out from them.

1. He says "I saw it, it's alive, it's huge!"

2. Anything derived from the "Ethan Haas" websites is null and void, as J.J. Abrams himself has already stated that they have nothing to do with the movie.

This information's already been posted earlier in the thread.

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1. He says "I saw it, it's alive, it's huge!"

2. Anything derived from the "Ethan Haas" websites is null and void, as J.J. Abrams himself has already stated that they have nothing to do with the movie.

This information's already been posted earlier in the thread.

I have been listeing to that one line a few times and I don't know which way it should go. If he said, "I saw it, it's alive, it's huge!" - that makes me thing that there is a thing/object/creature that would not normally be alive, else why would that be your exclamation. As in, "OMG, the Statue of Liberty! It's alive!" If you say a huge creature attacking the city, would you think, "I saw it, it's alive, it's huge!" Why wouldn't it be alive, unless it normally is not.

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I listened very close many times and i too heard him call LION.

That is not the real head of The Statue of Liberty, it's just a replica that they put on a building in New York.

This lion could in some sort of a Godlike creature, not the one you see in the ZOO but bigger ^^ I don't know about another angry robot thing that comes to screw up USA. This has just been done by the The Decepticons.

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Maybe, perhaps, Abrams wanted to clue us into the fact that it was a monster attacking the city, and not a robot, alien ship, etc etc?

Since he's not showing the monster, the only way to do that is to have someone say something to that effect.

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http://a366.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/image...e7e1588b14d.jpg

there is a picture of the monster as best i can get it.

I know a few people have tried to make something out of the blackness in that shot, and you thought you'd jump on the bandwagon, but think about it for a second.

In one shot, the monster is in the middle of the street some 10 blocks away. A few seconds later, it smashes the head off of the statue of liberty and sends it flying from waaaay downtown, what appears to be a mile away or more.

Ignoring the impossibility of the monster being in two places at once (unless we're seriously going to discuss multiple monsters, which the trailer doesn't allude to at all), if Abrams isn't even giving away the name of the movie, he sure isn't going to give us an image of the monster itself, even if it is concealed in the dark.

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^ Nicely put. Although there are some things that don't add up with your logic, which I agree with by the way. The first is the explosion, which happens before the head comes flying in. What caused the explosion on the mainland if the monster is still in the water? I'd say we're talking more than a mile away from Liberty Island from the looks of it, not a lot over a mile, but still over a mile IMO

I don't think the teaser was thought out all the way. It seems like the teaser was slapped together last minute, the CGI creating the head for the Statue of Liberty looks horrible IMO.

Now don't get me wrong, I am still excited to see what this movie is about, but they could have done a better job than what they did.

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Ok, someone here has to step up (either guy or girl, I don't care) and get Mr Abrams in bed with compromising pics so that we can blackmail him to give us more info on the movie and/or monster. Might as well get some Lost info too.

What, you can't wait six months? Surely more shots will be out by then ;)

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