Spoiler: Looks like they're going to show the deaths of Remus and Tonks.
It all looks so great!
Mal: That's not what I saw. You like to tell me what really happened? Book: I surely would. And maybe someday I will.
'Safe'
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A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Kathy A - Apr 27, 2011 8:52:21 pm PDT #14281 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
le nubian - Apr 28, 2011 1:47:26 am PDT #14282 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
which is a departure from the book.
§ ita § - Apr 28, 2011 3:41:45 am PDT #14283 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Are movie trailers spoilers?
le nubian - Apr 28, 2011 3:58:12 am PDT #14284 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
well, if people haven't read the book and don't want to be spoiled for the 2nd film, I can imagine so.
§ ita § - Apr 28, 2011 4:25:25 am PDT #14285 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, but it's going to be confusing if we randomly make some movie trailers whitefont territory and others not. I imagine that the Hunger Games trailers will be spoilery for the books to some extent, but that's just how the media rolls. I think it's going to be crazy to try and whitefont stuff--is the HP movie discussion going to be whitefonted forever for the same reason? Has it been traditionally?
The movie is its own thing. I think if you don't want to be exposed to movie trailer information, don't read this thread. But if we start calling certain movies spoilers, things will be crazy in no time.
Jon B. - Apr 28, 2011 4:33:24 am PDT #14286 of 30000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Deathly Hallows II trailer. Magic just got real, yo.
Who's the woman at 1:07?
Gris - Apr 28, 2011 4:33:44 am PDT #14287 of 30000
Hey. New board.
I think if you notice things in the trailer that you probably normally wouldn't notice and are using your knowledge of the book to expand upon it, then it should possibly qualify as a spoiler. For example, I watched the trailer and had to watch very carefully for the Molly vs. Bellatrix event that others are discussing. Also, somebody mentioned the death of Tonks and Lupin which certainly isn't obvious from the trailer - implied, perhaps, but not shown outright and again, adding information based on conjecture and knowledge of the books.
It's a fine line and probably not one that should we should really try to enforce much, but I think whitefonting for major plot points makes some sense.
Steph L. - Apr 28, 2011 4:39:08 am PDT #14288 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I think whitefonting for major plot points makes some sense.
But the movies are based on books that have been out for a substantial amount of time. We don't whitefont stuff about the books any more (not even Deathly Hallows), so why would we whitefont about the movies? I don't see them as 2 mutually exclusive things ([1] the books, [2] the movies).
§ ita § - Apr 28, 2011 4:40:58 am PDT #14289 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If you know stuff about the books and are adding it to what you see in the trailer, then, yeah, it should be whitefonted.
But stuff that was just in the trailer? We going to start whitefonting all adaptations? Whitefont even after the movie's been out a while?
That's kind of like whitefonting GoT talk in Premium because people in there for other reasons might not have read the books yet. Counter to the primary function of the thread.
Steph L. - Apr 28, 2011 4:44:13 am PDT #14290 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
If you know stuff about the books and are adding it to what you see in the trailer, then, yeah, it should be whitefonted.
Even though the books have been out long enough that we no longer whitefont them?