Post by mikef6 on Aug 29, 2018 18:20:25 GMT
In producer and director Tony Bill’s (The Sting, Untamed Heart) little book “Movie Speak: How To Talk Like You Belong On A Film Set,” he has an entry under “trailer.” He defines the word (a preview of coming attractions), gives a short history of the trailer’s development and ends with the statement, “No movie is better than its trailer.”
The phraseology is clever and cynical in a Hollywood way, but how true is it? Does the trailer always build you up while the corresponding movie lets you down?
Another conventional saying is that a bad comedy will always put its best lines into the trailer. After seeing one comedy film preview (it was for “Have You Heard About The Millers”) My Lovely Wife whispered to me: “If those were the funniest parts, this movie is going to be deadly.” So there is one example of a bad trailer AND a bad movie.
The phraseology is clever and cynical in a Hollywood way, but how true is it? Does the trailer always build you up while the corresponding movie lets you down?
Another conventional saying is that a bad comedy will always put its best lines into the trailer. After seeing one comedy film preview (it was for “Have You Heard About The Millers”) My Lovely Wife whispered to me: “If those were the funniest parts, this movie is going to be deadly.” So there is one example of a bad trailer AND a bad movie.