Creative editing

[pegkerr]

Gacked from makinglight, who, apparently, got the story from Tattered Coat (madlori, you'll love this): A post-production house organized a competition where assistant editors 're-cut' trailers for famous movies to try to make them seem like different movies.

The first place winner was The Shining as the feel-good romantic comedy of the year.

Third place winner was West Side Story as a zombie horror flick.

No word on what won second place. They also made a trailer for Titanic as a scary movie.

Comments

[copperwise.livejournal.com]

I recently saw a movie that had been marketed as a light chick flick, which turned out to be incredibly raunchy and not the sort of silly comedy the trailers would have led me to believe. I actually loved it, to my everlasting embarrassment, but would never have watched it based on the insipid trailers.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

I have spent the last five minutes speechless and wheezing over Shining. The others are good, but that one....

[http://users.livejournal.com/anam_cara_/]

Oh, jeez, thanks so much- this is just PRICELESS!!!!

[vass]

Titanic is a scary movie.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Also, you can explain the anachronisms and other things wrong with it most simply by postulating Leonardio diCaprio as a female time traveller from the early 21st century. I still think Kate drowns him at the end, though - I mean if your protagonists can play by Indiana Jones rules while everyone else dies realistically up to that point, he must still be alive when he's floating there.