Saturday, April 9, 2011

Trailers

My friend, Julie, left a comment on facebook about The Pit and the Pendulum trailer I posted.  It got me thinking about trailers: how some are magnificent little films in themselves, sometimes better than the actual movies they're made for; or how sometimes they deceive, and manipulate in creative ways to frame our expectations of a film.  Julie mentioned the quote in TPATP trailer about John Kerr, "..in a challenging role." Well, if you've seen the film, the most challenging thing for John Kerr was probably the blade of the pendulum swooshing over his body, and I'm willing to bet it was done with an extra and some special effects.  So, yes: a wonderfully unintentional bit of humor there.  I've posted two of my favorite trailers of all time--tried to post a few more, but youtube wouldn't let me.  These two trailers got my teenage imagination overwrought with excitement for the movies themselves. I wanted to post the one for Being John Malkovich which conspicuously contained a very memorable piece of the soundtrack from the movie Brazil.  Did the movie marketers want us to make a subconscious connection between the two films?  What trailers stick in your memory, and why?

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