New York Times technology columnist David Pogue writes about the frustrating experience of seeing a movie that seems completely different from the trailer that made you want to see it in the first place.
This is becoming more and more common as films are edited right up to the date of release, while marketing plans (including the trailer) must be prepared months in advance. I experienced this “trailer tease” most memorably with the Will Ferrell comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Almost nothing we laughed at in the trailer was in the finished film. According to the IMDB site, there were so many discarded subplots and unused scenes that the filmmakers made an entire second film, Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie and included it on the second disc of Anchorman’s DVD release.
Can you think of any other examples of trailer teases that failed to deliver?
Oh, happy day! Paul McGann and Richard E. Grant are reunited in a short, called “Always Crashing In The Same Car.” If the Bowie song title and the reunited Withnail and I stars appeal to you, it’s freely downloadable from The Times web site.
If you have a web-capable mobile phone, you can now subscribe to a special mobile version of Toronto Screen Shots with the innovative FeedM8 service. Just scroll down and look for the nifty icon in the right sidebar. Or, if you’re lazy:
Of course, if/when you get an iPhone, you can just browse the regular site. But until that day, the Toronto-based FeedM8 service looks to be a useful resource.
Pamela Cohn, a filmmaker in her own right, has started a blog focussed on documentaries. Still in Motion features some excellent in-depth interviews with filmmakers; in particular, check out the interview with Pernille Rose Grønkjær, director of The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun, which I reviewed here. (A tip of the hat to Agnes for the link.)
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