The Big Twist?

August 4th, 2004

The following DRAMATIZATION re-enacts what MIGHT happen if I call the movie company responsible for promoting the summer psuedo-thriller, “The Village”…

THEM: Good Afternoon, (insert name of big movie company here)

ME: Hi are you responsible for making the trailers and marketing materials for “The Village”?

THEM: Well, yes… this IS the marketing department and we did oversee the promotion for that particular movie…

ME: Didn’t you think the trailer and commercials for that movie were misleading?

THEM: I don’t know what you’re talking about…

ME: I mean, you were promoting it like it was a horror movie or at least a thriller. There was nothing thrilling or scary about it -

THEM: I’m sorry you were unhappy. But didn’t you like the big TWIST?

ME: BIG twist? I figured the whole thing out in the first 15 minutes. I saw it coming a mile away. It looks like M.Night is a one trick pony. The sad thing is that I might have even liked the movie if I wasn’t expecting to see something completely different than what you were advertising…

THEM: We feel we portrayed the movie accurately…

ME: Accurately? You made the film seem scary and used non-scary clips in the trailer and put effects and sound effects on them to make it seem like it was going to be really scary. You even used the tagline “Face Your Fears”. What fears? Being tricked out of my $14 to go see a movie different from the one I thought I paid for? …at the end of the midnight showing I went to everyone booed… they were obviously expecting something scary…

THEM: Well, that’s how you chose to interpret the trailers…

ME: What about the interview you had with Sigourney Weaver saying that she couldn’t sleep after reading the script cause she was so scared… what was she scared about, never getting another job? Or Adrian Brody saying it was the scariest script he ever read… has he never seen a real scary movie before? Did you guys tell them to say that?

THEM: Ummm…

ME: Exactly.

THEM: Do you want your money back?

ME: I would like to see free movies for a whole year.

THEM: Okay then. We’ll take care of that.

ME: And can you stop running those misleading commercials and trailers?

THEM: Umm… we can’t do that. We still need to trick people into seeing the film so it makes lots of money.

Posted on Wednesday, August 4th, 2004 at 3:36 pm by Jason and is filed under Blog.

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