{"id":20166,"date":"2018-03-26T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T07:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/?p=20166"},"modified":"2018-03-26T00:08:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T07:08:18","slug":"best-movie-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/best-movie-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"MY VOTE FOR THE BEST MOVIE TRAILER EVER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/store.danoday.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20177\" src=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Footloose-Thumbnail-240.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a>30+ years ago I was at the Writer&#8217;s Guild Theater in Los Angeles, waiting for a movie screening to begin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">The screening was preceded by a trailer for a different, new, yet-to-be-released film.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Although the audience was comprised of &#8220;industry people,&#8221; none of us\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><!--more--><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">ever had heard that new movie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Nor had we heard of the star, whose name isn&#8217;t even mentioned in the trailer. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">So when the trailer began, none of us had any expectations. We were just waiting for &#8220;our&#8221; film to begin. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">As a benchmark, reactions to movie trailers for films we&#8217;ve never heard of range from <em>&#8220;Looks like it might be interesting&#8221;<\/em> to <em>&#8220;Good, now we can watch the movie.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But when this trailer ended, the entire theater burst into HUGE applause. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A spontaneous, unanimous, &#8220;Wow that was great!&#8221; ovation.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Turn up your volume first&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6nSXtZPKms4?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\nThey should give Academy Awards for Best Edited Trailers: <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>John Lithgow&#8217;s<\/strong><\/span> eye movement at 0:53 is magnificently placed, resulting in great foreshadowing that shifts the focus from pure fun to something more sinister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">This movie trailer is like a great record: Just as good now as the first time I experienced it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30+ years ago I was at the Writer&#8217;s Guild Theater in Los Angeles, waiting for a movie screening to begin. 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