14 Times Hollywood Made Trailers So Misleading Audiences Actually Got Pissed
I assume it's pretty difficult to market a movie. You have to create trailers that give just enough away to pique audiences' interest, but not give too much away as to spoil the movie. And, of course, you have to accurately represent the film, right?
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Well sometimes in order to reach a broader audience and make the most amount of money, production companies just completely forget about that last one, and make trailers that are just...wrong.
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Sometimes, they create trailers that suggest a movie is an entirely different genre or has an entirely different tone. Or, they take out-of-context scenes or quotes and form a false narrative. Or, even worse, they shoot new scenes just for the trailer, all while having no intention of putting them in the movie.
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