Also the last trailer for Rise of Skywalker premiered on what would have been Carrie Fisher's birthday. So yeah. Star Wars knows that we love and miss Carrie.
@@RoKBottomStudios I disagree what the TLJ did to her character;we know that she's a child of Anakin Skywalker one of the most powerful Jedi and we've never seen her use the force before and her using the force to pull herself back to the ship is one of if not the the most beautiful scenes in SW history
@@emmakielty5552 I take it as less of a marketing strategy and more of a send-off. It's the last time she'll appear on screen, and they're reusing footage rather than digitally reconstructing her like James Dean. According to her brother, this was also supposed to be her movie with her becoming a Jedi (Han's send off was in TFA, Luke's in TLJ, and Leia's what would become TROS), and so they're doing their best to give her character and her legacy all the justice they can. But that's just my touchy-feely optimist take since these things are made by people, but I think the cynical take is completely valid with this being a product of a corporation in the capitalist hellscape we call the United States Economy.
Art: _"The conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects."_ Movie trailers are art. The fact that Patrick recognizes how trailers can impact our emotions is further proof that trailers are art.
Two corrections 1. The title card in the Rise of Skywalker teaser is quoting the title card in the Phantom Menace trailer (I realized this after the video was already done) 2. The music in the Solo trailer is actually the main title theme 3. I MEANT ASTROMECH DROID DAMN IT PATRICK YOU IDIOT
Patrick, calling BB-8 a "protocol droid" is unforgivable. He is an astromech droid and does not deserve this slander. Also yeah I agree trailers are dope.
I just wanna say that the moment in the final Force Awakens trailer where we go from Poe screaming from Kylo torturing him to the forest getting destroyed by Starkiller Base to the Falcon blasting off is my pick for best trailer edit of all time. The instant momentum they create by splicing together bits from three scenes that had nothing to do with each other is insane. Paired with the music, insane goosebumps.
"Did you know someone made a whole Skillshare course about how to do sponsor segues like you?" THAT WAS MEEEEE! Thanks for the shoutout. That was special.
Holy shit man, your Felicity-based Rise of Skywalker was very, very close. 100 percent right on Reylo, I’m going to say 80 percent right about her “ending up back on Jakku where she started” with her going into exile at the Lars homestead, and the time travel prediction being half-right with Palpatine being inexplicably alive.
not every creative expression is art. A designer mostly does not produce art, but rather creates products beneficial to its user. not being art is not inherently bad or sad.
@@RisingSunfish I'd argue that "art as personal expression" actually very much includes art made by more than one person. People can work together to personally express something. Now whether that means the expression isn't as personal? To either the consumer or the artist? That's a different story.
I find the discussion of what is and isn’t art interesting nearly every time it’s brought up. I’d say all of the component parts of a trailer (Editing, scoring, arranging, writing, etc.) are art, or involve some level of artistry. I also don’t think that commercialism inherently negates artistry; great art has been made ‘merely’ for money many times. For these, and other reasons, I’d say that trailers can be art. Some of them certainly aren’t, but some of them are. Whats the difference between the ones that are and aren’t? I’m not totally sure. Off the cuff I’d say it seems like the differentiation would depend on the intent of the trailer, and who has creative control over it. I haven’t thought about it enough, though. Good video!!
I think his argument stems from the fact that trillers are manipulated for selling things and “art” is more of a catalyst for thought and a message than a tactic There are components that are artistic but they themselves are not. It’s a personal thing of course and you’re free to agree with it or not, the conversations is interesting and there’s no objective yes or no
Tangent - when I was a kid I remember getting thrown off by the similarity of the opening bits of the trailers for A Bug's Life and Episode 1 because they featured tall figures stepping out of fog.
The second teaser for The Force Awakens is one of my favorite trailers of all time. The climactic montage is designed with such laser precision, you can take each shot and explain why it’s there.
the Felicity video made me come up with my theory that Rey will, after being boinked by Ben, travel back in time, lose her memories and become Shmi Skywalker, preggo with Anakin.
7:20 “and through it all there’s new music that is clearly by John Williams but it’s not using any familiar Star Wars themes” Except that’s clearly the music from RotJ when Luke’s about to be put into the Sarlacc Pit.
Jennifer Rigsby Whatever this guy was saying just proved that trailers are indeed, art. The cognitive and emotional intelligence on behalf of the editors making it are absolutely artistic.
It's amazing how the episode IX prediction somewhat didn't aged so bad after all. They get somewhat together, Ray returns somewhat in someplace similar to where she begins. But no time travel. Thank god no time travel.
Ok, Now I'm gonna go and edit the final trailer to RISE OF SKYWALKER with "I will always love you" and "I want it that way" just to see the end result.
I first heard/saw the trailer for the Force Awakens trailer whilst driving in my car, the radio station played the whole trailers audio without commentary, it was that important. I was crying at the wheel. "where home" uncontrollable weeping.
@20:44 those two notes in that horn part present us with the same interval that's featured prominently in Kylo Ren's theme. You can hear it in the Last Jedi trailer on the closeup of Kylo's broken helmet. I think that's a stroke of genius on John Williams' part: keeping a harmonic continuity between a mother and her son's main themes. GENIUS
The Part of the trailer where threepio says:taking one last Look sir, at My friends. That made me actually cringe. It felt incredebly cheap to hear him say that, when in The two previous move they had pretty much zero interection between him and The new main cast
Well its the same Patrick H Willems that said Star Wars is for children and about space wizards . If its for kids how can they sell nostalgia???? This guy is such a contradiction.
I agree. Trailers are art. I know some would say it is just the marketing team throwing clips from the movie together to illicit feelings. That's like saying a painter just tosses colors together on a canvas to illicit a feeling. While true, it underscores the talents required to pull it off successfully. Yes, trailers are art. And for some films, better than the movies they are promoting.
Art is generally defined as "The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination… producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power." While being extremely artistic, in some cases, the purpose of their creation disqualifies trailers from being art.
JaRW7 you just listed the reason they are are. They can be appreciated for their beauty and the emotions they evoke. If I see a Star Wars trailer, it isn’t selling me on seeing the film. A blank screen with the words Star Wars on it could do that. And who hasn’t watched a Star Wars trailer 20 times in a row just to savor that beauty and those emotions?
So, seeing this for the first time three years after it was posted, I would say the Felicity theory proved to be relatively accurate- Abrams just flipped it a bit.
"These don't have the depth of actual movies, because again, they're just pieces of marketing designed to sell stuff" We're... Still just talking about the trailers, right?
The smartest thing Disney/Lucasfilm can do with this franchise is to invoke nostalgia. Unlike other properties, the fans of this franchise are almost reverent with the original trilogy, but unusually vicious as to any new material, or changes. So leaning heavily on the images and "feelings" of the original trilogy, and blending those into the sequel trilogy characters and themes, is the best move here to make sure that they transfer the feelings and pedestal of the OT as much as possible to this new film, especially after the split of the last film.
I reeeeally loved the lighting in this video! It’s very....60’s? I’m getting a real a Rod Serling vibe, I dig. Fantastic analysis! I love your Star Wars content, it’s always so thoughtful and insightful.
The time travel in Felicity felt really weird when I watched it on its original run, but now I think it was my gateway drug into Lost. I'm super excited to see Keri Russell in Rise of the Skywalker.
Something I’ve found over the years is that trailer hype seems to have died down more recently, even for massive films. When trailers of years ago were released more than a year before the film was due to release, now, even for films like Spider-Man No Way Home, trailers have been released closer to the film’s release. Personally, I like that, there’s no real point getting people hyped for something when you don’t even know when you can give it to them. Also, I’m glad these kinds of trailers don’t always just bash you over the head with stuff, at least, it does, but they know how to market things in proportion to how much they are in the film. The Force Awakens trailer didn’t promise us anything from Luke Skywalker, and that’s pretty much what we got. Most people probably didn’t even realise he would be in the film until that ending.
I don't know why but it triggers my ocd way harder than it should, so I need to say this: The legged vehicles from Star Wars are being pronounced by saying the letters individually. It's not Atat, it is A T A T.
It’s odd watching The Force Awakens trailers again because it’s also reminding me of where I was 5 years ago (which wasn’t a great place). So it’s like this mix of the sadness I felt about my life at the time and the excitement that I felt for Star Wars. Emotional memory is weird y’all
that first tfa trailer holy shit you played like 4 seconds of an empty desert shot and some voiceover and just the mere memory of the trailer gave me chills
The Phantom Menace trailer also showed in front of The Waterboy. Also, marketing can be art. The underlying intent of selling something does not preclude the material from being art, as even movies, paintings, music, etc., are also all trying to sell you something: in their case an emotional response. Editing a trailer is as much an art as editing a film: in both cases someone other than the person who created the original material is taking that material and creating something with the intent of creating an emotional response. One is not more genuine than the other. As for the argument that trailers are too short to have any depth and therefore promote an emotional response, you won't have to go far to find someone who got a greater emotional response from a trailer to a film that disappointed them.
"'Member Chewbacca? 'Member AT-ATs? 'Member when marriage was just between a man and a woman? 'Member the Cantina? 'Member Star Destroyers? 'Member feeling safe? Member Tattooine? 'Member when there weren't so many Mexicans? 'Member Star Destroyers? 'Member Reagan? 'Member the Stormtroopers? 'Member the *_real_* Stormtroopers?" - The 'Memberberries weaponizing nostalgia for their own purposes
I'm so burnt out on consuming nostalgia of past generations, that by the time Detective Pikachu came out, I wasn't able to enjoy my own generation's nostalgia
dude... I thought from the title of this video that it was going to to be yet another New Star Wars hit piece. So glad to be wrong, you're insightful about the precise and quite brilliant calculation that goes into these things, but without being cynical about them. And that seems quite rare these days.
Art is anything that makes you feel something so if a trailer makes you feel, you're looking at art. Not everything will be art to everyone and that's okay.
@@180_S patrick said marketing is automatically not art, yet Legacy had the reductionist view? art is not magic. it is not meta physical. trying to make it difficult to define is just gatekeeping
_"Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days."_
~ Doug Larson
That is a brilliant quote.
last fucking jedi....
Nostalgia aint what it used to be.
Nostalgia is a sign of brain deterioration. Every nostalgic memory is a sign of brain cell death.
@@jenniferhunter4074 what?
Also the last trailer for Rise of Skywalker premiered on what would have been Carrie Fisher's birthday. So yeah. Star Wars knows that we love and miss Carrie.
@@emmakielty5552 I won't argue against that. But The Dark Knight did the same thing after Ledger's death so I think it's just Hollywood in general.
And she was originally going to be the titular Last Jedi. Carrie fools em again. She's probably cracking up the heavenly choir right now!
@@RoKBottomStudios I disagree what the TLJ did to her character;we know that she's a child of Anakin Skywalker one of the most powerful Jedi and we've never seen her use the force before and her using the force to pull herself back to the ship is one of if not the the most beautiful scenes in SW history
@@emmakielty5552 I take it as less of a marketing strategy and more of a send-off. It's the last time she'll appear on screen, and they're reusing footage rather than digitally reconstructing her like James Dean. According to her brother, this was also supposed to be her movie with her becoming a Jedi (Han's send off was in TFA, Luke's in TLJ, and Leia's what would become TROS), and so they're doing their best to give her character and her legacy all the justice they can. But that's just my touchy-feely optimist take since these things are made by people, but I think the cynical take is completely valid with this being a product of a corporation in the capitalist hellscape we call the United States Economy.
They know to cash in on that fact. The same reason why they always make a big PR show of showing a terminally ill fan the movie before it releases.
Looks at the time: 3:15 am.
Looks at video length: 33:05.
I'm doing this for you Patrick. Only you.
Maybe don't. You're an adult. With adult things to do tomorrow. You should go to sleep instead. The fucking video willl be there tomorrow.
RIP
Sonnuva..... I was 27mins in before I read this and noticed the length!
Bitch please. I STARTED at 3:48.
I started at 2:42 am
The most radical thing in this video is Patrick calling something not art.
@diamond dogs Usually more interesting cinema than the films they're made for.
deckarde This video has convinced me that these star wars trailers are definitely art!
@@deckarde4919 The Disney Star Wars trailers are definitely more interesting and emotionally resonant than the movies they're advertising in my book.
Art: _"The conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects."_ Movie trailers are art. The fact that Patrick recognizes how trailers can impact our emotions is further proof that trailers are art.
TwentyPercentDash Well, that’s one definition of Art, but there are way way more definitions you can subscribe to.
Two corrections
1. The title card in the Rise of Skywalker teaser is quoting the title card in the Phantom Menace trailer (I realized this after the video was already done)
2. The music in the Solo trailer is actually the main title theme
3. I MEANT ASTROMECH DROID DAMN IT PATRICK YOU IDIOT
Also you call bb8 a protocol Droid when he's an astromech.
How about your sun glasses showing the camera man
I feel like that drugs declaration was there for the sake of reassuring Patrick's too-sweet-for-this-world parents
I was literally on acid when I watched the video and got this weird feeling like I was being called out lol
Patrick, calling BB-8 a "protocol droid" is unforgivable. He is an astromech droid and does not deserve this slander.
Also yeah I agree trailers are dope.
Brennan Dowd holy shit how did I not notice this. UNFORGIVABLE! But yeah pretty funny
had to stop and go to the comments right when I heard that
egdiroh dude he also says At-At wrong. Gotta love Star Wars fans ahah
To be fair to Patrick he did notice this mistake just after posting and mock himself for it on Twitter.
I came here to say this. Thank you!
I'm technically in a Patrick Willems video. I've made it. I am complete.
I just wanna say that the moment in the final Force Awakens trailer where we go from Poe screaming from Kylo torturing him to the forest getting destroyed by Starkiller Base to the Falcon blasting off is my pick for best trailer edit of all time. The instant momentum they create by splicing together bits from three scenes that had nothing to do with each other is insane. Paired with the music, insane goosebumps.
"Did you know someone made a whole Skillshare course about how to do sponsor segues like you?" THAT WAS MEEEEE! Thanks for the shoutout. That was special.
The fuck is a segue?
That's how you spell "segway"... Takes 5 seconds to look up.
I guess your canon in the Patrickverse.
Riley Wilson YES! This is an amazing thought. Thanks for that.
Skillshare asked us not to specifically recommend it (there’s an approved courses list) but it was too good not to get a mention.
Holy shit man, your Felicity-based Rise of Skywalker was very, very close. 100 percent right on Reylo, I’m going to say 80 percent right about her “ending up back on Jakku where she started” with her going into exile at the Lars homestead, and the time travel prediction being half-right with Palpatine being inexplicably alive.
“What are the odds that it will? Like very poor.” Sentences That Aged Like Milk
Patrick willems: "Trailers aren't art"
People who work hard on movie trailers: :(
not every creative expression is art. A designer mostly does not produce art, but rather creates products beneficial to its user. not being art is not inherently bad or sad.
Just because paid people work hard on something doesn’t make it art.
@Miles Truss Would you say political smear campaigns can be art then?
@Miles Truss The "art as personal expression" definition also serves to exclude any pieces of art made by more than one person.
@@RisingSunfish I'd argue that "art as personal expression" actually very much includes art made by more than one person. People can work together to personally express something. Now whether that means the expression isn't as personal? To either the consumer or the artist? That's a different story.
Every time "Star Wars" pops in my notification feed, I panic. But this is a Patrick Willems video, so we are safe.
So True...😏
Hello the fella soldier
Next video by Kings & Generals: The battle for Naboo
Wow I never would’ve expected you here!
True. #MayTheForceBeWithYou
Seeing Brad Pitt get hit by cars for the second time was worth the wait.
dude the music theory part could've been it's own entire video, super interesting stuff
Check out 12tone
Sideways has a video with a similar premise. He’s got some great stuff so check it out
the giant alien cow thing that luke milks is one of my favourite new additions
Me: *watches star wars trailer*
Star Wars trailer: *HEY REMEMBER STAR WARS!!!?*
alex johnson Looks terrible...horses galloping in space tells you everything you need to know.
@@emhu2594 especially when care bears come in and defeat the empire with sticks and stones
@@roam980 And they still haven't learned from their mistakes.
@@Arkanthrall just like how the emperor thought it was a good idea to build another death star and oversee it's construction in person
@@emhu2594 They aren't in space.
Never did I think I'd ever see a Star Wars trailer set to Whitney Houston music, however brief it may be hahahaha
And it fits perfectly!
It's insane how even tho I've seen TFA and TLJ there's moments in those trailers that still hit me like an emotional gut punch.
I find the discussion of what is and isn’t art interesting nearly every time it’s brought up. I’d say all of the component parts of a trailer (Editing, scoring, arranging, writing, etc.) are art, or involve some level of artistry. I also don’t think that commercialism inherently negates artistry; great art has been made ‘merely’ for money many times. For these, and other reasons, I’d say that trailers can be art. Some of them certainly aren’t, but some of them are.
Whats the difference between the ones that are and aren’t?
I’m not totally sure. Off the cuff I’d say it seems like the differentiation would depend on the intent of the trailer, and who has creative control over it. I haven’t thought about it enough, though.
Good video!!
Christopher Sykora I thought a similar thing when he said they weren’t art. I believe the sure can be.
Exactly. Just because it is advertising material doesn't preclude it from being art. Human creation that evokes an emotion = art.
@James Davis I am in agreement! Adverts totally can be art.
I think his argument stems from the fact that trillers are manipulated for selling things and “art” is more of a catalyst for thought and a message than a tactic
There are components that are artistic but they themselves are not.
It’s a personal thing of course and you’re free to agree with it or not, the conversations is interesting and there’s no objective yes or no
People forget the Sistine Chapel was paid for
Nobody: "you can't make a 30 minute video about just trailers"
Patrick: "hold my beer"
Lmao sitting on an Empire Strikes Back towel "I told you, I'm not thinking about Star Wars anymore"
I still get shivers when Han says "Chewie, we're home" 8)
Tangent - when I was a kid I remember getting thrown off by the similarity of the opening bits of the trailers for A Bug's Life and Episode 1 because they featured tall figures stepping out of fog.
The second teaser for The Force Awakens is one of my favorite trailers of all time. The climactic montage is designed with such laser precision, you can take each shot and explain why it’s there.
the Felicity video made me come up with my theory that Rey will, after being boinked by Ben, travel back in time, lose her memories and become Shmi Skywalker, preggo with Anakin.
Well that theory is definitely original
Ring Theory v2!
"Stick around until the end and I'll play that clip of Brad Pitt getting hit by cars again."
This guy knows how to get me to watch an entire video.
7:20 “and through it all there’s new music that is clearly by John Williams but it’s not using any familiar Star Wars themes”
Except that’s clearly the music from RotJ when Luke’s about to be put into the Sarlacc Pit.
"leia's theme without leia" what is this dude trying to do to us?? that was devastating.
Jennifer Rigsby Whatever this guy was saying just proved that trailers are indeed, art. The cognitive and emotional intelligence on behalf of the editors making it are absolutely artistic.
It's amazing how the episode IX prediction somewhat didn't aged so bad after all.
They get somewhat together, Ray returns somewhat in someplace similar to where she begins.
But no time travel.
Thank god no time travel.
I don’t know why, but seeing the montage of reactions to the 2nd teaser with solo and chewie makes me well up every single time
Ok, Now I'm gonna go and edit the final trailer to RISE OF SKYWALKER with "I will always love you" and "I want it that way" just to see the end result.
“Solo - the bastard stepchild of the Star Wars Franchise”
"I don't know anything about drugs. I'm an anxious nerd who's afraid of everything." Same, Patrick. Hard same.
I first heard/saw the trailer for the Force Awakens trailer whilst driving in my car, the radio station played the whole trailers audio without commentary, it was that important. I was crying at the wheel. "where home" uncontrollable weeping.
Mike Stoklasa spoke first about time travel shenanigans in Rise of Skywalker.
I applauded because I know who that is!
THANK YOU!
And he did it based on Felicity. so shared inspiration.
SW Rebels did.
@20:44 those two notes in that horn part present us with the same interval that's featured prominently in Kylo Ren's theme. You can hear it in the Last Jedi trailer on the closeup of Kylo's broken helmet. I think that's a stroke of genius on John Williams' part: keeping a harmonic continuity between a mother and her son's main themes. GENIUS
The craziest thing is that he went to the beach in November.
In Florida and Texas, that's normal.
@@huaweilayhill9182 But he lives in New York
@@huaweilayhill9182 As a Texas boy born and raised, don't. It gets mighty windy down at the Gulf during the Fall.
@@Gemnist98I hear ya. But I still remember wearing shorts after Thanksgiving, while folks put up Xmas lights.
The Part of the trailer where threepio says:taking one last Look sir, at My friends. That made me actually cringe. It
felt incredebly cheap to hear him say that, when in The two previous move they had pretty much zero interection between him and The new main cast
I rarely disagree with Willems, but Trailers are absolutely art.
For sure. There's trailers that make even a turd movie look polished and exciting.
Well its the same Patrick H Willems that said Star Wars is for children and about space wizards
. If its for kids how can they sell nostalgia???? This guy is such a contradiction.
I agree. Trailers are art. I know some would say it is just the marketing team throwing clips from the movie together to illicit feelings. That's like saying a painter just tosses colors together on a canvas to illicit a feeling. While true, it underscores the talents required to pull it off successfully. Yes, trailers are art. And for some films, better than the movies they are promoting.
Art is generally defined as "The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination… producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power."
While being extremely artistic, in some cases, the purpose of their creation disqualifies trailers from being art.
JaRW7 you just listed the reason they are are. They can be appreciated for their beauty and the emotions they evoke. If I see a Star Wars trailer, it isn’t selling me on seeing the film. A blank screen with the words Star Wars on it could do that. And who hasn’t watched a Star Wars trailer 20 times in a row just to savor that beauty and those emotions?
During the buildup, I was highkey expecting the musical expert Patrick called in to be Sideways.
I've never had so many goosebumps in half an hour.
0:15 I love the wall of UA-cam channel icons, especially the shoutout to Polyphonic; that man has discerning taste!
So, seeing this for the first time three years after it was posted, I would say the Felicity theory proved to be relatively accurate- Abrams just flipped it a bit.
So redlettermedia and Patrick are predicting time travel. Good enough for me
@Brer Fox Redlettermedia not channel awesome. Channel awesome sucks
Brer Fox
Shame on you...red letter media has no affiliation with douglas walker lmao
Was worth it all just to see the trailer cut with with "AND AAAAAAYYEEEEEEAAAIIIIIIIII"
"These don't have the depth of actual movies, because again, they're just pieces of marketing designed to sell stuff"
We're... Still just talking about the trailers, right?
^
Can we just go ahead and say John Williams is one of the greatest artists ever?
Yes.
The hottest of takes.
The only reason people say the new trailer is good, it sure as hell not these boring new characters!
Yes. Let's.
Great composer? Yes
One of the greartest? No
"I Will Always Love You" was not written by Whitney Houston. It's a Dolly Parton song.
Advertising isn't art? Alfons Mucha would like a word.
Okay, this video just made me want to go back and watch the Force Awakens again. Can't wait for Rise of Skywalker.
By showing scenes from Star Wars in them
This
I have too much to do today to watch this video, yet here I am giving it my 100%.
someone who does drugs reporting in - your drug analogy was absolutely spot on.
reecord2 I did whip-it's while watching this video, and it was everything I dreamed it could be.
You basically described how bands put together their set when on tour for their follow up albums.
"People have already forgotten your name"
The toxic brood never forgets Patrick :)
Patrick is the Vsauce for film analysis.
Next video, can adverts be art?
My opinion, yes.
i was litterarily saying "Will always love you" as he was. so good to now know the theory behind it. thx Patrick and Brian
I was half expecting a sponsor push in that interlude, well played.
The smartest thing Disney/Lucasfilm can do with this franchise is to invoke nostalgia. Unlike other properties, the fans of this franchise are almost reverent with the original trilogy, but unusually vicious as to any new material, or changes. So leaning heavily on the images and "feelings" of the original trilogy, and blending those into the sequel trilogy characters and themes, is the best move here to make sure that they transfer the feelings and pedestal of the OT as much as possible to this new film, especially after the split of the last film.
I reeeeally loved the lighting in this video! It’s very....60’s? I’m getting a real a Rod Serling vibe, I dig. Fantastic analysis! I love your Star Wars content, it’s always so thoughtful and insightful.
I'd love it if Brian Metolius started his own channel, just analyzing various movie scores.
I just need to say, "I'm helping Thomas Frank launch his music career" is one of the funniest jokes you've ever written. Well done.
Santiago Romero Oh just you wait.
That Episode 7 teaser is still giving me goosebumps. When I first watched this trailer i lost my mind
All human endeavour is Art.
😂
So I’m here a year later and your predictions weren’t too far off.
The time travel in Felicity felt really weird when I watched it on its original run, but now I think it was my gateway drug into Lost. I'm super excited to see Keri Russell in Rise of the Skywalker.
@@FluffyBunniesOnFire I hope he shows up again in Rise of the Skywalker.
Something I’ve found over the years is that trailer hype seems to have died down more recently, even for massive films. When trailers of years ago were released more than a year before the film was due to release, now, even for films like Spider-Man No Way Home, trailers have been released closer to the film’s release. Personally, I like that, there’s no real point getting people hyped for something when you don’t even know when you can give it to them.
Also, I’m glad these kinds of trailers don’t always just bash you over the head with stuff, at least, it does, but they know how to market things in proportion to how much they are in the film. The Force Awakens trailer didn’t promise us anything from Luke Skywalker, and that’s pretty much what we got. Most people probably didn’t even realise he would be in the film until that ending.
When I first saw the Millennium Falcon in that teaser, I completely lost it
Rey's theme is beautiful
16:01 We know who said it first, the guys from red letter media ;)
Kirrin Island OH MY GAWDDDDD
Hack Frauds!!
Regardless of the quality of these movies, everyone can agree all these trailers are fucking awesome
You realize now, with that music analysis section, we’re gonna get TONS of Ep 9 trailer edits with those songs. Lmao.
Im so glad you're back, hope the vacation was good!
I can't wait for the video where is revealed his agent is Tyler Durden.
16:01
“If this happens... you know who said it first!”
Yeah I love RLM too
Patrick: Star Wars Trailers Weaponize Nostalgia
Internets: *star wars rage intesifies*
Patrick: See what I mean?
Star Wars trailers have nothing on Avengers trailers. Endgame and Infinity War trailers were events
I want him to analyse the teaser trailer for Logan (The trailer which used Hurt by Johnny Cash). As far as I'm concerned, that shit is art.
Yes, let the hate flow through you all...
Aren't alot of movies just marketing? Star Wars films sell toys, Disney films sell theme park tickets, Marvel movies just sell future marvel movies.
I don't know why but it triggers my ocd way harder than it should, so I need to say this: The legged vehicles from Star Wars are being pronounced by saying the letters individually.
It's not Atat, it is A T A T.
I don't really care but trying to pronounce AT-ST sounds silly so I end up spelling out both for consistency.
And a Tie fighter is named so because it looks like a bow tie. Pronunciation does not matter.
That's not OCD, you're just particular
@@umjackd According to actual lore from the making of STAR WARS, TIE stand for The Imperial Empire.
@@ChrisMaxfieldActs In the LucasArts games, TIE mean Twin Ion Engines, WIKI also says Twin Ion Engines.
guys.... editing is wild
i felt that, patrick
8:24
"I don't know anything about drugs."
Ok, Patrick 😏😏😏
It’s odd watching The Force Awakens trailers again because it’s also reminding me of where I was 5 years ago (which wasn’t a great place). So it’s like this mix of the sadness I felt about my life at the time and the excitement that I felt for Star Wars. Emotional memory is weird y’all
0:50 - "Helping Thomas Frank launch his music career"
I'm on the floor 😂😂😂
Welcome back! Another awesome video, really love the analyzing of modern Star Wars trailers.
that first tfa trailer holy shit you played like 4 seconds of an empty desert shot and some voiceover and just the mere memory of the trailer gave me chills
The Phantom Menace trailer also showed in front of The Waterboy.
Also, marketing can be art. The underlying intent of selling something does not preclude the material from being art, as even movies, paintings, music, etc., are also all trying to sell you something: in their case an emotional response. Editing a trailer is as much an art as editing a film: in both cases someone other than the person who created the original material is taking that material and creating something with the intent of creating an emotional response. One is not more genuine than the other.
As for the argument that trailers are too short to have any depth and therefore promote an emotional response, you won't have to go far to find someone who got a greater emotional response from a trailer to a film that disappointed them.
5:28 "We all saw the trailer"
Dear Patrick, thank you so much for sharing your genius and that of your musician friend. Love your work and saving up to become one of your patreons🤗
"'Member Chewbacca? 'Member AT-ATs? 'Member when marriage was just between a man and a woman? 'Member the Cantina? 'Member Star Destroyers? 'Member feeling safe? Member Tattooine? 'Member when there weren't so many Mexicans? 'Member Star Destroyers? 'Member Reagan? 'Member the Stormtroopers? 'Member the *_real_* Stormtroopers?"
- The 'Memberberries weaponizing nostalgia for their own purposes
Pepperidge farm remembers
Good, good....
Amazing video guys! Really loved the analysis of the trailer music! Keep up the good work.
Thank you for this video. It's exactly what I need right now!
"Time travel! You know who said it first!"
BATMAN?
Brennan Meyer
Mr. Plinkett: But that’s another guy!
Colin Copland *a different
I'm so burnt out on consuming nostalgia of past generations, that by the time Detective Pikachu came out, I wasn't able to enjoy my own generation's nostalgia
dude... I thought from the title of this video that it was going to to be yet another New Star Wars hit piece. So glad to be wrong, you're insightful about the precise and quite brilliant calculation that goes into these things, but without being cynical about them. And that seems quite rare these days.
wow, your Rise of Skywalker predictions were actually pretty accurate
Welcome back man. I've missed you. And bringing it back on some Star Wars stuff. Very nice.
Art is anything that makes you feel something so if a trailer makes you feel, you're looking at art. Not everything will be art to everyone and that's okay.
Such a simplistic and reductionist definition of art. Would watching a loved one die be considered art? It would certainly make you feel something.
@@180_S patrick said marketing is automatically not art, yet Legacy had the reductionist view? art is not magic. it is not meta physical. trying to make it difficult to define is just gatekeeping
I stubbed my toe the other day and it really hurt. This is what _true_ art is.
@@benl2140 Don't forget to make a trailer
"This is a movie about space wizards intended for children."