SHOWGIRLS VS. BLACK SWAN, A MASH-UP

So much has been said about the parallels between Showgirls and Black Swan. My friend Ange e-mailed me this, knowing full-on that I would love it. Two ambitious young Dancers with the odds stacked against them, fighting to survive in the cut-throat world of Dance.  Two of my favourite Movies, together at last!  

Watch Jeffrey McHale's Mash-up of both Films, taking the extreme camp of Showgirls, laying it over the Audio of Black Swan's Trailer. Too good and definitely NSFW.

BLACK SWAN TRAILER

Black Swan poster

The trailer for Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan has just surfaced and it looks like an intense bit of a emotional rollercoaster, with a few surprise twists and turns thrown in, yes?  It is exactly what Showgirls aspired to be. Not that I didn't love Showgirls.

Portman is fantastic at "being done-to" in this Trailer, channeling some of that pain and fire we saw the ill-fated The Other Boleyn Girl, Closer and last year's TIFF selection, the excellent Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, which still has yet to surface.  And yes, you did see right.  There appears to be some girl-on-girl action going on there.

The thriller starring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel about a pair of dueling Ballerinas, will hit theatres December 1, 2010 via Fox Searchlight.  And how about that haunting just released poster for the film?  Looks like somebody's been hard at work and needs a nap... or just lay off the Medicinal Marijuana.