By Ryan Parsons | Images property of Paramount Vintage.
We put up the one-sheet for Black
Snake Moan a while ago and were quickly asked to take it down. Paramount Vantage is now ready for the poster's unveiling and, without further ado, here it is (along with some new movie stills).
Black Snake Moan Poster
There was a time when Lazarus (Samuel L. Jackson) played the blues; a time he got Bojo’s Juke Joint shakin’ back in the day. Now he lives them. Bitter and broken from a cheating wife and a shattered marriage, Lazarus’ soul is lost in spent dreams and betrayal’s contempt…Until Rae (Christina Ricci).
Half naked and beaten unconscious, Rae is left for dead on the side of the road when Lazarus discovers her. The God-fearing, middle-aged black man quickly learns that the young white woman he’s nursing back to health is none other than the town tramp from the small Tennessee town where they live. Worse, she has a peculiar anxiety disorder. He realizes when the fever hits, Rae’s affliction has more to do with love lost than any found. Abused as a child and abandoned by her mother, Rae is used by just about every man in the phone book. She tethers her only hope to Ronnie (Justin Timberlake), but escape to a better life is short-lived when Ronnie ships off for boot camp. Desperation kicks in, as a drug-induced Rae reverts to surviving the only way she knows how, by giving any man what he wants to get what she needs…Until Lazarus.
Refusing to know her in the biblical sense, Lazarus decides to cure Rae of her wicked ways – and vent some unresolved male vengeance of his own. He chains her to his radiator, justifying his unorthodox methods with quoted scripture. Preacher R.L. (John Cothran) intervenes, but it is Lazarus and Rae who redeem themselves. Unleashing Rae emotionally, Lazarus unchains his heart, finding love again in Angela (S. Epatha Merkerson). By saving Rae, he frees himself.
Black Snake Moan Poster
Christina Ricci in Black Snake Moan
Justin Timberlake in Black Snake Moan
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Samuel L. Jackson in Black Snake Moan
Though I had first questioned the story to Black Snake Moan, we have received tons of buzz over the past couple of months claiming that this film is the shit. I also needed proof that Timberlake was in fact in the film, and so we have that as well.
More movie stills for the film coming shortly.
Black Snake Moan opens to theatres on February
23, 2007.
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