{"id":6191,"date":"2010-06-26T00:05:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T07:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/?p=6191"},"modified":"2010-06-25T21:01:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T04:01:27","slug":"best-movie-trailer-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/best-movie-trailer-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"BEST MOVIE TRAILER EVER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/FootlooseThumbnail1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6200\" title=\"FootlooseThumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/FootlooseThumbnail1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>20+ years ago I was at the Writer&#8217;s Guild Theater in Los Angeles, waiting for a movie screening to begin.<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A trailer for another film preceded the movie we<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> had come to see. <\/span> <span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">No one in the audience \u2014 comprised of &#8220;industry people&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> \u2014 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">had ever heard of this not-yet-released new movie. Nor of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">the star (whose name isn&#8217;t even mentioned).<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But when this trailer ended, the entire theater burst into HUGE applause. A spontaneous, unanimous, &#8220;Wow that was great!&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> ovation.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <\/span> <span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Turn up your volume first&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"662\" height=\"531\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"salign\" value=\"lt\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"&amp;MM_ComponentVersion=1&amp;skinName=http:\/\/danoday.com\/Halo_Skin_3&amp;streamName=http:\/\/danoday.com\/videos\/FootlooseMovieTrailer.flv&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;autoRewind=true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"FLVPlayer\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"&amp;MM_ComponentVersion=1&amp;skinName=http:\/\/danoday.com\/Halo_Skin_3&amp;streamName=http:\/\/danoday.com\/videos\/FootlooseMovieTrailer.flv&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;autoRewind=true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"662\" height=\"531\" src=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf\" name=\"FLVPlayer\" flashvars=\"&amp;MM_ComponentVersion=1&amp;skinName=http:\/\/danoday.com\/Halo_Skin_3&amp;streamName=http:\/\/danoday.com\/videos\/FootlooseMovieTrailer.flv&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;autoRewind=true\" scale=\"noscale\" quality=\"high\" salign=\"lt\"><\/embed><\/object> <span style=\"font-size: medium;\">They should give Academy Awards for Best Edited Trailers: <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>John Lithgow&#8217;s<\/strong><\/span> eye movement at 0:42 is magnificently placed, resulting in great foreshadowing that shifts the focus from pure fun to something more sinister.<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This movie trailer is like a great record: Just as good now as the first time I experienced it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20+ 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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