On Thanksgiving, I had the pleasure of catching this "cult sleeper" with Archduke and Dan the Commie. I was amused to hear Orphan invited a public backlash from adoption advocates:
"We are concerned that in addition to its intended entertainment value, this film will have the unintended effect of skewing public opinion against children awaiting families both in the United States and abroad," said a letter to Warner Bros. CEO Barry Meyer from the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute.
Warner Bros. may or may not have added a pro-adoption message at the end of the film when it came out on DVD... That was at least the bone they originally threw to the orphan loving coterie. When we On-Demanded it, there certainly wasn't an "ADOPT NOW" in the credits.
But what's really dope about this movie is the character Max, who is the biological, deaf daughter of our protagonist parents. As you can imagine, there's a lot of interesting possibilities for manipulation and suspense when you have to communicate in sign.
When a kid's this cute, you're gonna barf if she gets hurt. When the kid's deaf, you're ready to take a bullet to the brain for that mute little tyke. So Orphan didn't make me want to adopt, but it did encourage me to have a surrogate child by the mother of Max. I'LL PAY ANYTHING!!!!
Videogum.com was offended not only by Orphan's Photoshop fuck-up of a poster (which really does make a good movie look cheap and trite), but also by the dud taglines. They responded with this:
I think Girls Are Made From Sugar And Evil might be the only winner here, but the idea's right. And look what made an appearance! From our second post, the worst tagline ever:
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