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3 responses to ““New” movie trailer for ‘The Shining’ …”

1. 2005/10/02

   alecm

   re: Shining

   more context at dev.null.org/blog/archive.cgi/2005/09/30#2233_shining

   <<< Update: here is a New York Times story about the trailer, which was produced for a competition, and got its editor the attention of people in the industry. And other entrants in the competition include: Titanic as a horror movie and West Side Story as a zombie flick. >>>

   NYT story at: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/movies/30shin.html?ex=1128744000&en=fd2592b413260d3d&ei=5070&emc=eta1

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2. 2005/10/02

   Tessa Lowe

   profoundly wrong

   It’s the music that does it.

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3. 2005/10/02

   alecm

   exactly…

   …you find being led by the use of untaught “trailer vocabulary” – the styles of cuts and transitions, the use of vocabulary which (shorn of plot) is purely emotional – and you find yourself thinking “that might be a nice movie to see”.

   Until you realise you’ve already seen it…

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