Trailers
October 2nd, 2005
Further to my post the other day about Shining, the re-edited trailer for The Shining that turned it into a heartwarming family drama, this post at Making Light notes that the trailer was in fact just one entry in a competition for film editors.
The Shining trailer deservedly won first prize. The second placed trailer, a reworking of the Hayley Mills version of The Parent Trap, can be found at Moondog (click on the link for Paul LaCalandra – it’s the second thumbnail from the right, the one about “Ordinary Girls”); I appreciate the professional job done, but as the film isn’t a particular favourite of mine I don’t feel the same reaction I did to the reworking of Kubrick’s chilly masterpiece.
The third placed entry, a reworking of West Side Story as a horror movie, is marvelously Carpenteresque. (That’s the early, scary John Carpenter of The Thing and Halloween and The Fog, not the guy who gave us Ghosts of Mars and Escape from LA.)
October 4th, 2005 at 05:01
I eventually found the Shining trailer hilarious, but I confess that it took multiple recommendations for me to spend the most of an hour having to access nothing else online to get to it.
The internet really seems to be dividing faster and faster than ever between those who can afford more-than-text and the others. There is only so much material I’m willing to block out all my access to for an hour, or more, to view for a minute, even when friends suggest it.
October 4th, 2005 at 07:22
Having only got broadband access at home earlier this year, I’m very much aware of this problem. I’m well aware that I post more links to material that effectively requires either broadband access or a lot of patience on the part of dial-up users than I used to, if for no other reason that having a broadband link makes it easier for me to access such material and my posts are a reflection of the sort of content I’m reading/viewing/listening to. I think the more insidious problem is that of sites loaded with graphical ads which are much less painful to browse when you’re on broadband, especially where the ad-blocking solutions I employ filter out many of the ads so that I don’t even notice how overburdened with flashing whatsits the pages really are.
Other than being sure to clearly label links to multi-megabyte files, I’m not sure what the solution is from the weblogger’s end of the equation.