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Trailer Time: Interstellar Teaser #1 (2014)

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Oh you weren’t actually expecting him to tell you anything were you?  Interstellar is my most anticipated film for 2014 and Christopher Nolan is, far and away, my favorite director.  Not only does he have a penchant for secrecy, he has a very keen awareness of the trailer as a marketing tool.  There’s a two-step process.  #1 – release a teaser that tells you absolutely nothing.  Remember The Dark Knight?  There weren’t even visuals, just Alfred saying the lines about “some men just want to watch the world burn” while the batman logo slowly burned onto the screen.  The Dark Knight Returns just had Gordon in his hospital bed.  So, yeah, there is about twenty seconds of movie footage here and all it tells you is that Nolan, like myself, feels we lost something when we stopped exploring; that it is essential to the nature of  human beings.  It’s always the NEXT trailer that’s the one that blows our minds and ranks among the best we’ve ever seen, so much so that we’re afraid he’s given it all away.  But he takes such delight in editing to mislead that you can walk in thinking you know what’s going on and have him land you on your can within minutes.  It’s how he works.  So enjoy this cryptic look at Interstellar and remember, This is just the orchestra tuning.
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  1. Nolan IS far and away the best director working in Hollywood today. And I’ve actually been waiting for someone to tap into the end of the shuttle program. We need to keep pushing outwards as a race, and this trailer gave me chills. I really believe—and I’m in good company here—that it was a travesty and a tragedy that the APOLLO program ended when it did. However—this trailer got a TERRIBLE reaction in the crowded IMAX theater I saw it in. A woman made a sarcastic remark, and the entire theater laughed (except me and my friend). It’s Nolan, the man who made Inception, the man who made The Prestige, so I fully believe he’ll deliver. I mean—there were people who were totally confused by Inception the first time they saw it, and instead of being turned off they actually SAW THE MOVIE AGAIN to try and figure it out. But this cloak and dagger thing has a cost. Those first Inception trailers told us nothing, but there were awesome shots of floating unconscious people being tied together, and cities folding in on themselves. I’m not seeing anything like that here. Nolan needs to deliver with a terrific premise, and he needs to start telling us what the film is actually about—fast—because from where I’m standing there isn’t much enthusiasm (except in the case of people like you and me).

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    1. More Plot Details for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar

      That’s the latest plot details I have on it. 2014 is such a wasteland after May that all they need to do is for him to release the real trailer with something like X-Men Days of Future Past that all they need to do is put FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE DARK KNIGHT TRILOGY on it and people will be there. The only competition it has in the entire fall from what I can tell is Mockingjay.

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  2. What I really want is for a studio to take ONE movie and make an up-to-the-minute chronicle of the production process available for the public to see, from the first story pitch to the scoring. Obviously in practice they would have to hold back, or else no one would pay to see the finished product, but still.
    I find that this particular coming attraction is cryptic without being tantalizing. Blame JJ Abrams for making me a bit skeptical and impatient as a consumer. I prefer more transparency.
    But you are absolutely correct: being the director of the Dark Knight Trilogy carries all the cred in the world. If, after that, NOLAN can’t sail a movie based on an original concept, cinema is truly doomed. They really should attach the next trailer to the next X-Men… the coming attraction for that blew me out of my seat. It was quite possibly one of the best I’ve ever seen. I live for good trailers.

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