It's a curious thing, the trailer for Julie Taymor's The Tempest. On one hand, the visuals are frequently stunning and it's obvious that Taymor has lost none of her visual style. But despite the visuals it often seems to labor to feel like cinema rather than stage and that comes as a surprise. And no doubt making that problem all the more apparent is the fact that the trailer was cut by someone who clearly has ZERO faith in the audience to be familiar with the story or interested in it in the slightest unless they are first bashed on the head by a great big stick labeled THIS IS WHAT THE MOVIE IS ABOUT with each of the marketing points given their own convenient compartment within the trailer.
I've seen The Tempest performed a few times. I like it. Not my favorite Shakespeare but a very good one. And Taymor always brings a certain vitality to things that makes her work worthwhile, even if this doesn't appear to be her strongest stuff. But that said, this is a really bad trailer that I feel vaguely insulted by.
I've seen The Tempest performed a few times. I like it. Not my favorite Shakespeare but a very good one. And Taymor always brings a certain vitality to things that makes her work worthwhile, even if this doesn't appear to be her strongest stuff. But that said, this is a really bad trailer that I feel vaguely insulted by.
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Sigur Ros song at the end of the trailer FTW! other than that, I'll pass...
I'm not to familiar with the original version, but I think this trailer looked great and made me want to see the movie. Not insulted at all.
I doubt that any of us are that familiar with the 17th-century original production…
I just think that we're all smart enough to realize that Helen Mirren is doing magic without a great big title card shouting SORCERY! Same goes with Russell Brand being an idiot. I don't need anyone to tell me that. And separating everything off into these chunks does nothing at all to make it feel like a coherent film ...
♡ Hmm I don't know, with the sound turned off I could have mistaken it for some pointy stick-based new fitness fad, but true about Brand.
And talking of idiocy, I realise it was the text as opposed to any particular production that Andrew meant and that that was just worded a little confusingly; I post stupid things at this time of night and when it occurs to me that they could be taken offensively (by people I don't know personally and so aren't accustomed to the industrial levels of crap that come out of my mouth that I don't really mean) I all so often find I can't delete them.