{"id":1094,"date":"2009-07-17T11:33:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T15:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2009-07-17T11:33:11","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T15:33:11","slug":"the-art-of-the-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/2009\/07\/the-art-of-the-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of the Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

IFC has collected what they call the 50 Greatest Trailers of All Time<\/a>.\u00a0 If nothing else, it’s a great way to waste some time on a Friday.\u00a0 I didn’t even know some of these trailers existed.<\/p>\n

I don’t know that I agree with them, certainly (Pulp Fiction should be way higher on that list, and it’s surprising to see that none of\u00a0 Danny Boyle’s films are on there.\u00a0 Nor is Forest Gump).\u00a0 But is that what all Top ## lists are for?\u00a0 To start a conversation?<\/p>\n

This is one of my favorite movies. And yes, they cut an excellent trailer for it:<\/p>\n

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What’s clear in looking at the list and watching a few of the trailers is that there is a real art to making a good trailer.\u00a0 If you know what you’re doing, in just two minutes you can really tease your audience into wanting to see your entire two hour film.<\/p>\n

On a related matter, if you haven’t seen them yet there are some excellent (and hilarious) re-cuttings of trailers floating around on the internet that make the film look like it belongs in a completely different genre.\u00a0 My favorites are The Shining<\/em> cut to look like a romantic comedy<\/a>, Garden State<\/em> as a suspense thriller<\/a> and Brokeback to the Future<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Thanks VSL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IFC has collected what they call the 50 Greatest Trailers of All Time.\u00a0 If nothing else, it’s a great way to waste some time on a Friday.\u00a0 I didn’t even know some of these trailers existed. I don’t know that I agree with them, certainly (Pulp Fiction should be way higher on that list, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[436,437],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flicks","tag-ifc","tag-movie-trailer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1095,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}