Trailer - Danny Boyle's Brilliant 'Slumdog Millionaire'

Over the past couple of months, since it made the festival circuit in Telluride and Toronto, very few movies have had the amount of legitimate end-of-the-year buzz enjoyed by Slumdog Millionaire, the new movie by director Danny Boyle. The title is misleading on one level, because it has kind of an ugly connotation, and while the events in the film accurately reflect the title, Slumdog is anything but ugly.When the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? breaks for the night as he sits one question away from winning 20 million rupees, 18-year-old Jamal Malik (Rev Patel) is taken into police custody to prove he isn't cheating. Nobody had ever come this close to winning so much on the show before, and it's suspicious that an uneducated orphan who grew up in the worst parts of Mumbai would have the slimmest chance to win. Boyle's film allows Jamal to tell the interrogator (the great Ifran Khan) how his life experiences prepared him for each question through a series of flashbacks. It's a completely unique movie, one with a ton of heart and more than its fair share of dramatic turns. And that's about all I can say right now. I'll give you a full review - plus a Danny Boyle interview if my luck holds out - in a couple of weeks.In the meantime, take a look at the trailer for Slumdog Millionaire:
Trailer courtesy of Trailer AddictLook for Slumdog Millionaire in theaters beginning November 12th, beginning in the major film markets and expanding across the country thereafter.

Comments

[Will]

Danny Boyle is what Guy Ritchie should have been. Not all of his movies are classics, but they are all interesting and worth looking at. I'm jazzed that The Big Picture is so jazzed about this flick!