Extensive Cloverfield Analysis

NOTE: This blog goes very in depth, please ONLY read if you are extremely curious about this film, or have been intrigued by it. I don't claim to know ALL the facts, but I will go on record, and put my own self credibility on the line by saying I DO know what i'm talking about, and go into theories with a very delicate since of logic.

You can ask my girlfriend, Cloverfield has been an obsession of mine since July of 2007. The preview debuted before the summer Blocbuster Transformers, revealing no title , no plot details, just very strange digital camera footage of a party being interrupted by some kind of roar. What came next? the name J.J. Abrams (Lost creator/producer, Alias) and a date, 1-18-08.

Naturally I came to the only place where I figured I could find answers, the IMDB board for the film. Since them, it has been ground zero for Cloverfield development, and like many other J.J. Abrams projects (namely LOST), there was ALOT of viral online marketing, however, the marketing for this film, the diffrence in this case was the fact that these viral marketing site actually served as the source for the backstory on this film (in a sense).

Among these sites were fake MySpace profiles for all the charachters, as well as a few fake companies that had to do with the film that you might have not even known about without previously checking out the details on this flick.
(Ex. Slusho: Rob's brother was wearing a Slusho t-shirt).

I guess first things first...
Anyone expecting to get a back story, or was mad because it didnt explain the monster etc. is simply naive.
The film is based on someone picking up a digital camera and recording the events of the night... do you think it is likely thats ome dude would just magically know what was going on, where it was from etc.
No

Abrams said in his production notes for the film, the movie was not about a monster, it was about a group of people in a chaotic situation and how they dealt with it. The movie was to capture the essence of this chaotic situation/a chatoic situation,a nd the monster was a vessel for doing this.

The monster also was not an alien, also in Abrams production notes, he commented that the monster was a baby, and was new, and was verys cared and confused (hence his motives). And that he had also been dormant under the ocean for a long time.

NOW, for those of you who saw in the final scene in the movie when Beth and Rob are on the farris wheel overlooking the ocean, you noticed something fall into the ocean, and based on the previous information, we know it WAS NOT THE MONSTER.

What was it?
Well, weeks before the movie,a website called www.tagruato.jp (another tie in website, a fictional company that also makes a subtle cameo in the movie [the logo on the capsized oiltanker]) posted that a piece of their satelite had fallen into the ocean off the coast of New York. So with that info, we will assume that is what fell into the ocean at the end of the movie, and we will also assume that this is what awoke the monster.

So, in essence, in my opinion, the movie CLOVERFIELD, was mainly a sidestory to the overarching story itself. The story was established prior to the movie online.

So what's next?
Well here's the fun part...

Possibility of a sequel...
VERY VERY VERY HIGH.

If you stayed after the credits (which I pissed off a ton of people when I made them haha) you heard a noise of someone saying "help us"
However, when played backwards, it is EXTREMELY clear that the voice is saying "it's still alive"

Don't believe me...
judge for yourself





Anyone that knows Abrams knows that he poses alot of questions in his works... ALWAYS
And it is also rare that he would leave these questions unanswered.

My theory...
Alot of people say...
"how can you do a sequel with digital cameras again?"

Well, while I do think it would be cool to get a different perspective with a digital camera, I think it would be backtracking, or stagnating the storyline.
Then again, shooting the movie from an omnipatant perspective I think would not do the movie justice.
It's important to find some original way to do this.
One way I could see it being done is from post everything, in interview form.

If you've ever read the book World War Z, the story is told from 1st hand accounts via interviews, and flashbacks given after the cataclysmic event, I think this would be a very creative approach.