In the artists' video description, he poses the question, "Was it just me, or were Up and Gran Torino the same movie? This trailer proves it."
Now, I don't know if they were the same movie, per se. But I do think Gran Torino would have benefited from some more talking dogs. And Clint holding on to some helium balloons.
Sylvie Kim is a contributing editor at Hyphen. She previously served as Hyphen's blog coeditor with erin Khue Ninh, film editor, and blog columnist.
She writes about gender, race, class and privilege in pop culture and media (fun fun fun!) at www.sylvie-kim.com and at SF Weekly's The Exhibitionist blog. Her work has also appeared on Racialicious and Salon.
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