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Post by tombitd on Sept 25, 2010 17:03:55 GMT -5
I know I aluded to this on my <a href="http://ny-wisdom.livejournal.com/102295.html">Ten Statements on...YOU AGAIN?</a>, but I'll throw this out here as well....
Would anyone be interested in a BITD episode on 'The Art of The Trailer'...discussing what makes a good trailer, what makes a bad ones, etc...?
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Post by Derrick on Sept 27, 2010 0:47:44 GMT -5
And if anybody has any suggestions for trailers they'd like for Tom and I to pick apart then by all means, suggest away.
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Post by james on Sept 27, 2010 6:34:00 GMT -5
I didn't like the movie much, but the trailer for Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me - the one that fools you at first into thinking you're watching a trailer for one of the Star Wars prequels - is hilarious. There's a good example of a trailer that sells a movie well without giving away anything in the film itself (because nothing in the trailer is in the film).
James
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Post by james on Sept 27, 2010 10:14:46 GMT -5
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Post by Derrick on Sept 27, 2010 15:04:52 GMT -5
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Post by Eddie Love on Sept 28, 2010 20:45:39 GMT -5
I knew before I opened this that they'd include the PSYCHO trailer, which I've never been a fan of.
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Post by james on Sept 29, 2010 9:05:34 GMT -5
I've watched the trailer for Psycho a few times, and never realized that it's Vera Miles in the shower, not Janet Leigh. Onion AV club - it's educational as well as funny!
Another good trailer that sells the movie without actually showing much of the film - 1941. All that you see is John Belushi delivering a funny monologue and demonstrating that he's playing a klutz who thinks he's an air force cowboy, in a parody of 40s recruitment shorts. The movie's much better than its reputation, too.
Reading up on Toys, which I haven't watched in years, I remembered that Joe Dante directed a much, much better film on the same idea, years later - Small Soldiers (and, unlike Toys, it was enough of a hit that a sequel was in the planning stages for awhile).
James
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Post by Derrick on Sept 29, 2010 18:10:06 GMT -5
The best trailer I've seen in recent years is the one for GRAN TORINO. The trailer makes you think you're going to see a typical Clint Eastwood revenge fueled shoot-em-up when the movie is something completely different. Brilliant trailer and equally brilliant movie.
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Post by dread on Sept 30, 2010 1:47:40 GMT -5
Yes, hell yes! I just watched Bill Lustig's Vigilante for the first time. Not only a fantastic movie with two great leading men but the American trailer would be illegal today. Not for shocking imagery but because it would be considered inflammatory: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk1Z3jG9gRU&feature=player_embedded
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Post by Eddie Love on Sept 30, 2010 6:26:42 GMT -5
Is it me or is this link to the Friar's roast of Chevy Chase in honor of the late Greg Giraldo? Supposedly CC was incredibly pissed by this whole roast. You can see him stewing there. He immediately bolted out of there and skipped the after-party. They were gonna roast Tarrentino this week, but had to re-schedule due to Sally Menke's passing.
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Post by james on Sept 30, 2010 7:26:09 GMT -5
Is it me or is this link to the Friar's roast of Chevy Chase in honor of the late Greg Giraldo? Supposedly CC was incredibly pissed by this whole roast. You can see him stewing there. He immediately bolted out of there and skipped the after-party. I once listened to an interview with Todd Barry (who also participated) on the radio station WFMU, and he basically confirmed this (though he was reluctant to talk about it - the host pressured him a bit). He also said, if I remember correctly, that the Friars people had trouble getting anyone from the original Saturday Night Live to attend. James
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Post by Derrick on Sept 30, 2010 8:57:29 GMT -5
Is it me or is this link to the Friar's roast of Chevy Chase in honor of the late Greg Giraldo? Supposedly CC was incredibly pissed by this whole roast. You can see him stewing there. He immediately bolted out of there and skipped the after-party. They were gonna roast Tarrentino this week, but had to re-schedule due to Sally Menke's passing. Greg Giraldo was the main reason I watched the Comedy Central roasts as he was always the funniest roaster. Never once did this man fail to have me on the floor in convulsions of laughter.
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Post by dread on Sept 30, 2010 11:43:20 GMT -5
Aw shit, my bad. Thought the last thing I copied was the trailer for Vigilante. Here it is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3TnaoeQ1ZASorry about that, and RIP Greg Giraldo while I'm at it.
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Post by Eddie Love on Sept 30, 2010 19:33:36 GMT -5
I once listened to an interview with Todd Barry (who also participated) on the radio station WFMU, and he basically confirmed this (though he was reluctant to talk about it - the host pressured him a bit). He also said, if I remember correctly, that the Friars people had trouble getting anyone from the original Saturday Night Live to attend. James I read about that in an article in EW interviewing CC, so he was pretty plain about how hurt he was by the hostility. Paul Shaffer spent the evening having to try and talk him down.
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Post by Eddie Love on Sept 30, 2010 19:41:25 GMT -5
This trailer really haunted me as a kid. I recall seeing it many times, so it must have played before one of the movies I sat and watched over and over. It's still very effective -- even if the irony of the final line distracts today. It made me always want to see that movie -- and when I finally did? Meh.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmhIMbdecEU
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