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JohnWesleyDowney Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 7/30 10:19pm Subject: The Trailer Park: "THX 1138" - Date Edited: 7/30 10:23pm (1 edits total) Edited By: JohnWesleyDowney
	After the THX trailer, we continue in the science-fiction vein from dystopian to horror. We're returning to the IFC list, and the film they gave # 1 status on their list of great trailers. From Ridley Scott, his breakthrough film, Alien. 1979's Alien IN SPACE NO ONE CAN HEAR SCREAM. What's your opinion of this one? -----signature----- Namaste.
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corran2 Registered: May '06	Date Posted: 7/31 6:34am Subject: The Trailer Park: "Alien" (1979)
	Very effective. It spoils nothing really, and it is extremly scary the whole way through, with those screams when the egg breaks until the abrupt silence with the infamous tagline. -----signature----- Then my life felt as if it had been the length of one breath, one heartbeat.
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JohnWesleyDowney Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 7/31 8:54pm Subject: The Trailer Park: "Alien" (1979)
	corran2 posted: Very effective. It spoils nothing really, and it is extremly scary the whole way through, with those screams when the egg breaks until the abrupt silence with the infamous tagline. I agree it's an effective, excellent trailer. I'm not sure though, that I agree with IFC ranking it as the best trailer ever made. -----signature----- Namaste.
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DarthBoba Registered: Jun '00	Date Posted: 7/31 8:58pm Subject: The Trailer Park: "Alien" (1979)
	Compared to other trailers of it's time period, it's certainly above-par. Brutally effective and honestly scary. Does anyone know just what the "screaming" noise is? -----signature----- Only a Prime can defeat Vader and his Emperor.
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JohnWesleyDowney Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 7/31 11:55pm Subject: The Trailer Park: "Alien" (1979) - Date Edited: 7/31 11:57pm (2 edits total) Edited By: JohnWesleyDowney
	DarthBoba posted: Compared to other trailers of it's time period, it's certainly above-par. Brutally effective and honestly scary. Does anyone know just what the "screaming" noise is? I would agree that's it's probably the best trailer of 1979. Fair enough. I don't know what the screaming noise is, but I'll bet given the vast cinematic information resources of the Amphitheatre, at least one of the contributors can identify it. Perhaps 2nd Quest, perhaps Merlin, perhaps....well, you know, around here there's a lot film geeks. Someone's BOUND to know what it is. Alien Trailer 1979 -----signature----- Namaste.
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DarthBoba Registered: Jun '00	Date Posted: 8/1 8:04am Subject: The Trailer Park: "Alien" (1979)
	It's certainly alot better than any of the original OT trailers, if you ask me. So, does anyone know what the screaming noise is? -----signature----- Only a Prime can defeat Vader and his Emperor.
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The2ndQuest Title: Manager: -Literature -LACWAC -Games Registered: Jan '00	Date Posted: 8/1 11:30am Subject: The Trailer Park: "Alien" (1979)
	Spider-Fan posted: Fortunately now it has a very nostalgic feeling to it the same way a lot of classic Sci-Fi does...that vision of the future that's littered with dated technology and fashion...makes it fun to watch IMO. That dated technology always comes across as more foreboding or creepy. If you go too modernized, you either have to go the cyberpunk route or you end up with something too friendly feeling since modernized stuff is sleek and spiffy. JohnWesleyDowney posted: I don't know what the screaming noise is, but I'll bet given the vast cinematic information resources of the Amphitheatre, at least one of the contributors can identify it. It almost sounds like a sonar-type effect cranked up to me. Could just be a screechy artificially generated tone too. I don't know for certain though. -----signature----- "When your future self tells you to do something, YOU DO IT." K'Kruhk, 140 ABY:"Why haven't I come forth earlier to share my Jedi knowledge with Skywalker? Well, it's kinda a long story, see, I had this freaking sweet hat..."
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JohnWesleyDowney Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 8/1 9:22pm Subject: The Trailer Park: "Alien" (1979)
	Whatever it is, it sure gets the job done. It sounds scary as hell. -----signature----- Namaste.
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JohnWesleyDowney Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 8/2 6:30pm Subject: The Trailer Park: "Alien" (1979)
	I'd bet a million bucks Ridley Scott was heavily involved in the creation of that trailer. Why? Because he was very involved in the advertising campaign for Gladiator. Because his background is in advertising prior to being in the film industry. Because his background includes illustration and graphics. -----signature----- Namaste.
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JohnWesleyDowney Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 8/3 10:50pm Subject: The Trailer Park: "Alien" (1979) - Date Edited: 8/3 10:53pm (2 edits total) Edited By: JohnWesleyDowney
	Alien Trailer 1979 We are done with Alien. Moving from outer space, we come much closer to home. Actually, MY home. Full disclosure here: I live in Sugar Land, Texas and live about five miles from the Jester Prison Unit where Spielberg filmed the opening scenes of his first feature. So I've always had a fondness for this film. I drive by the location regularly. Unfortunately, I didn't live there at the time of the filming and I would have been too young to even get a job as a production assistant on it. Pauline Kael called the Sugarland Express the greatest debut feature of any director in the history of film. You can tell by the trailer that Universal had high hopes for Spielberg's movie, especially since he'd already enjoyed a success with his TV movie Duel. Alas, this film didn't do much business, but it's a very ambitious film for a 27 year old director. You can see from the trailer that the staging and visuals of many of these shots was from a guy determined to prove he could think and dream big, do action and have some emotional content as well. This was the first film that Spielberg and John Williams worked on together. It turned out to be a great warm up for Jaws, his next film, and in fact numerous crew members from Sugarland worked on Jaws too. First trailer for Spielberg's First Feature Does the trailer do it's job? Your opinion please. -----signature----- Namaste.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 8/4 12:28pm Subject: The Trailer Park: "The Sugarland Express" (1974)
	Guess what!!! Trailers were way too long back in 1974, too!
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JohnWesleyDowney Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 8/4 5:08pm Subject: The Trailer Park: "The Sugarland Express" (1974)
	I think I'm picking up a pattern here. -----signature----- Namaste.
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The2ndQuest Title: Manager: -Literature -LACWAC -Games Registered: Jan '00	Date Posted: 8/4 7:29pm Subject: The Trailer Park: "The Sugarland Express" (1974)
	Spielberg did some great shots here- I seem to recall it being said someone told him the shot at 2:48 of the trailer was impossible given the focal lengths involved, yet he managed to pull it off. -----signature----- "When your future self tells you to do something, YOU DO IT." K'Kruhk, 140 ABY:"Why haven't I come forth earlier to share my Jedi knowledge with Skywalker? Well, it's kinda a long story, see, I had this freaking sweet hat..."
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JohnWesleyDowney Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 8/4 7:59pm Subject: The Trailer Park: "The Sugarland Express" (1974) - Date Edited: 8/4 8:10pm (3 edits total) Edited By: JohnWesleyDowney
	Agreed, definitely. The only way I could see how the shot (with the police captain's eyes in the rearview mirror and the other characters looking out the window of the car in front of him) could be done would be with the use of a split diopter. From wiki... A split diopter has just a semicircular half of a close-up lens in a normal filter holder. It can be used to photograph a close object and a much more distant background, with everything in sharp focus; with any non-split lens the depth of field would be far too shallow Given Spielberg used Vilmos Zsigmond on the film as his director of photography, I can believe they got it. Vilmos is amazing. I think Orson Welles had Gregg Toland do some similar shots in Citizen Kane. That is an amazing shot though. First trailer for Spielberg's First Feature -----signature----- Namaste.
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JohnWesleyDowney Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 8/5 1:10am Subject: The Trailer Park: "The Sugarland Express" (1974) - Date Edited: 8/5 1:14am (1 edits total) Edited By: JohnWesleyDowney
	The Sugarland Express trailer's only been up a day so if anyone still wants to comment on it, that's cool, it's certainly an interesting one. Normally we don't change trailers after just one day, but a trailer for the new movie from Peter Jackson has been released, so I thought we'd get right to it, since he's such a major filmmaker. The Lovely Bones Comments? -----signature----- Namaste.
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