Has it felt like the trailers for Steven Spielberg’s upcoming sci-fi drama Disclosure Day are holding something back? They are. While promoting the film at this year’s CinemaCon in Las Vegas, the legendary director revealed that the movie’s promos have intentionally not shown any footage from the film’s third act.
It’s a stance we desperately want everyone else to embrace.
“They have photographic memories. They see one shot, and they sit in their seats and say, ‘Okay, show me where that shot is gonna appear!’” That’s what Spielberg said (according to EW) about his audience and why he’s holding back any and all scenes that take place in Disclosure Day‘s final act. That’s why Spielberg didn’t even include any in the special trailer that aired for Nerdist and fellow attendees at CinemaCon.
He’s completely right! In fact, no studio or filmmaker’s trailer should ever include footage from a third act. Movie trailers used to be something you only saw before other movies in the theater. You’d be lucky to see them once. Now we can and do rewatch them on our computer and smartphones as much as we want. Also, wonderful, intelligent, thoughtful pop culture sites do entire breakdowns highlighting every single aspect of movie trailers.
All of that has fundamentally changed how we see movies. Instead of simply experiencing the story as it unfolds on the screen, even if it’s unintentional, engaged viewers naturally begin to anticipate when a scene will take place. It’s less about seeing and more about expecting.
Third-act footage can also spoil a film while you’re watching the movie. Think back to the trailers for Captain America: Civil War. We all knew Iron Man and Captain America would fight in the film. But the big iconic shot of Bucky, Steve, and Tony fighting, a sequence prominent in countless promos and posters, takes place after the three seemingly bury the hatchet in the movie. But in the moment, anyone who watched the trailer knew that was obviously not going to hold since the movie still had to get to the big fight. It undercut the big Avengers-splitting reveal at the end.
Steven Spielberg is right about trailers. He’s 100% right. And we wish 100% of other filmmakers and studios would stop showing us act three footage in the trailer. Save it for the theater. It’ll make the theater experience even better.
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This articles is written by : Nermeen Nabil Khear Abdelmalak
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