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Post by Esmé's meme is meh on Jul 6, 2015 12:06:21 GMT -5
I can't believe someone has the time and the money to make something so elaborate and beautiful and perfect to fool people all over the world. I can't and I don't want to believe it.
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Post by Tryina Denouement on Jul 6, 2015 12:40:54 GMT -5
Don't believe it then! It's just not plausible!
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Post by madmonkmir on Jul 6, 2015 13:07:17 GMT -5
Yea I'm also beginning to think that trailer real, it has to be
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Post by Liam R. Findlay on Jul 6, 2015 13:20:08 GMT -5
Although the unannounced uploading on a questionable channel is ambiguous, I'm quite convinved that it's genuine (after all, if they made it ambiguous on purpose, look at the attention its getting as a result). I don't think it's linked to the movie due to the different aesthetic and inclusion of TPP hints, which came out after the movie. I also don't see why they'd spend so much on a fantastic thing like this and then not use it. If it were fan-made, they'd have to at least be a dedicated group of university students with the time to do this, animation skills, filming skills, lighting, filming equipment, editing skills, expensive animation software, editing software, money for the sets/props (eg. custom-designed newspaper article especially printed on news-paper) etc. And why bother with all that?  It makes so much more sense for it to be a simple teaser to raise awareness and create discussion about an upcoming series. |
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Post by Dante on Jul 6, 2015 13:24:24 GMT -5
And another thing: This video was posted yesterday, and it has eight hundred thousand views and has been spread far and wide across notable entertainment sites. Can it be possible that that happened in so short a period of time without some well-placed pushes in the right direction? Whoever is behind this thing has influence, to be able to make it and push it the way they have.
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Post by MisterM on Jul 6, 2015 13:30:50 GMT -5
I'm loving this.
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Post by Antenora on Jul 6, 2015 13:41:46 GMT -5
If this is a fake, it's an incredibly skilled and elaborate-- not to mention inexplicably popular-- one. Who would have the time and money to assemble all of those beautiful props, those fake books, those detailed diagrams and photos visible in the background, and even a quite realistic-looking leech? Compare this to the poster that fooled some people; the trailer shows much greater production values. |
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Post by madmonkmir on Jul 6, 2015 15:12:15 GMT -5
Well Mr.Handler as acknowledged the trailer
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Post by bandit on Jul 6, 2015 15:13:27 GMT -5
While also largely implying that it is fanmade.
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Post by madmonkmir on Jul 6, 2015 15:21:43 GMT -5
Yhup Netflix commented on the video saying it wasn't official, I'm not buying it tho
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Post by gliquey on Jul 6, 2015 16:45:53 GMT -5
The view count on the original video is up to well over 1 million now. If it's fan made, that's quite impressive: 1 million seems to be about half of what the most popular movie trailer video got. |
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Post by Skelly Craig on Jul 6, 2015 17:16:03 GMT -5
Well, now that I think about it... it could be a so called "sizzle reel" made for the movie back in 2003-04, which simply hasn't been publicly released before. Reels like that are made to propose to movie studios and demonstrate the kind of mood and tone the filmmakers have in mind for the actual film. ( Here, as an example, is a sizzle reel for Zack Snyder's 300; it captures the visual style and mood, but it was specially made and not reused for the movie). I also checked from which year the Dresden Dolls song is, and it's off their May 2003 album, A Is For Accident, so this actually correlates with the suggestion that it was made shortly before the ASoUE movie. It's just weird that apparently Daniel Handler has never seen this reel before, and that it hasn't been released on the movie's DVD extras or something. Also there's the "Netflix" bit at the end of the teaser, but I guess this could've been added by 'Eleonora Poe'. Considering she would probably have to work in the movie industry to have access to such a reel in the first place, I'm sure it wouldn't have been difficult to create that bit; it's easily done with After Effects. Although I don't know why she'd do this instead of just sharing the reel :/ Anyway, that's just my theory. |
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Post by Strangely on Jul 6, 2015 17:32:38 GMT -5
I simply cannot decide if it's real or not. Most of the articles quote a Netflix employee whose wording is kind of vague. "This was not released from Netflix and not anything official" Notably the word fake is not in this statement. They didn't say it wasn't made by netflix either. This could be viral marketing to drum up interest, perhaps before an announcement at comic-con. Also the Netflix logo did pop up a month ago; i.imgur.com/zjJzYSE.jpgI found it on the forum on IMDB on the movie page. The person who posted it said a graphic designer he follows posted it on Instagram. Perhaps this teaser could be tracked back to the source. Well, now that I think about it... it could be a so called "sizzle reel" made for the movie back in 2003-04, which simply hasn't been publicly released before. Reels like that are made to propose to movie studios and demonstrate the kind of mood and tone the filmmakers have in mind for the actual film. ( Here, as an example, is a sizzle reel for Zack Snyder's 300; it captures the visual style and mood, but it was specially made and not reused for the movie). I also checked from which year the Dresden Dolls song is, and it's off their May 2003 album, A Is For Accident, so this actually correlates with the suggestion that it was made shortly before the ASoUE movie. It's just weird that apparently Daniel Handler has never seen this reel before, and that it hasn't been released on the movie's DVD extras or something. Also there's the "Netflix" bit at the end of the teaser, but I guess this could've been added by 'Eleonora Poe'. Considering she would probably have to work in the movie industry to have access to such a reel in the first place, I'm sure it wouldn't have been difficult to create that bit; it's easily done with After Effects. Although I don't know why she'd do this instead of just sharing the reel :/ Anyway, that's just my theory. That's a good explanation, but I'm not sure a sizzle reel for the movie would contain references to TPP. If this were a sizzle reel, that would put it's date of origin at 2003 if not earlier. What are the odds they'd have details of TPP so early, better yet what are the odds they'd even know the color of the hat that would adorn the characters on the cover. While I still think you're theory is possible I think it's not completely likely. |
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Post by bandit on Jul 6, 2015 17:50:31 GMT -5
I don't know why there is this debate anymore tbh. Multiple sources have spoken to Netflix and they've repeatedly said that it's not their work. It's also been shown that high quality fan trailers have been made before (perhaps by the same designer who did this). And there's a huge difference between ASOUE's "don't read this!" shtick and a company flat out saying "this is not the trailer for our series." It is awesome fanart, but can we please stop debating?  |
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Post by gliquey on Jul 6, 2015 17:54:46 GMT -5
I don't know why there is this debate anymore tbh. Multiple sources have spoken to Netflix and they've repeatedly said that it's not their work. It's also been shown that high quality fan trailers have been made before (perhaps by the same designer who did this). And there's a huge difference between ASOUE's "don't read this!" shtick and a company flat out saying "this is not the trailer for our series." It is awesome fanart, but can we please stop debating? I agree that it's not an official release from Netflix, but I think there's a valid dispute between whether the trailer was originally made for something to do with the movie or was completely made by a fan. Fan works can be - and often are - better than anything that's canon. |
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