h/t EDSBS
Good news! The movie trailer for The Blind Side is on its way to theaters.
Bad news! The movie trailer for The Blind Side suggests that it will be focused on the person commanding the premium salary - Sandra Bullock - and that her agent, having not read the book, or any books, but only a "treatment" had it pitched in the following way:
(Note: Hollywood people talk in All Caps and are incapable of making appropriate analogies)
OK - PICTURE THIS - WEBSTER MEETS HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS!
BUT WITH EDGY STAND AND DELIVER UNDERTONES!
ONLY THERE ARE NO MEXICANS AND EDWARD JAMES OLMOS IS A BLONDE WITH TITS, THERE'S NO MATH -
AND - GET THIS - THE SASQUATCH IS THE ADOPTED SON!
IT'S BLACK-WHITE!
IT'S HEARTSTRINGS!
IT HITS BRANSON NASCAR DOLLAR!
IT'S SANDY BULLOCK LIGHT COMEDY!
CRASH MEETS E.T AND TRADING PLACES!
SO IS THIS A GO OR IS THIS A GO?
It's a go.