Friday, June 02, 2006

Trailers for Foreign Films

There was a trailer playing front of X-Men 3 that was an example of how trailers for foreign films are almost always constructed in North America. It was for a movie called something like District B-12. It looked pretty cool. In the future the ghetto parts of Paris have been walled off but one of these districts had gotten ahold of a nuclear bomb. One policeman is sent in to find it. It's an action movie with completely over the top moves. It said it was from the 'something' of Ong Bak and Transporter 2. I couldn't tell if the action was real like Ong Bak or staged like Transporter 2. There were guys jumping through small windows etc.

Anyway, if you watch the trailer there is no dialogue. Except for the mention of Paris at the beginning and the credits at the end there's no indication it's a French movie.
I've noticed trailers for foreign movies almost always avoid showing dialogue. Do they think people will be fooled into seeing a movie with subtitles?

Luc Besson is the writer of the above movie so it should be good. He did the Fifth Element, one of my favorite movies.

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