How many trailers equal the whole movie?

Tuesday 12 May 2009

There are so many trailers for the sixth Harry Potter movie that Anna Pickard wonders if there is any real need to cough up admission for the actual movie.
After a quick search on the internet there are at least five official trailers. One for the younger audience, for the slightly older fans, for the super fans and one that hopefully catches the attention of the people who are not fans. Some trailers focus on the story as it fits in the books others focus on the story of one movie, one that someone just might want to see. But a lot of the messages in the will correspond with people who know the story, and not a lot of others.
In some parts of the trailers a character refers to something that happened in the rest of the film, which you cannot see in that specific trailer but you can see some of it in another.
One wonders how many more trailers one might need to piece the whole movie together without actually seeing the movie.

I think the writer of this article is right about the quantity of Harry Potter trailers. After seeing most of the trailers myself, I started thinking that most of the story of the sixth book is covered in all those trailers together. I will still go see the movie but it is a little disappointing to see so many plots in the trailers already.