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42. Little Children (2006)
By IFC
on 06/25/2009
The trailer for "Little Children," the adaptation of Tom Perrotta’s novel of the same name, is misleading not only in its horror film intensity but its total, badass excellence. Other than stars Kate Winslet, Jennifer Connelly and Patrick Wilson, this tense, tightly crafted not-quite-two-minutes doesn’t have much in common with the sloggish, portentous film it's advertising.
A study in sound design, the trailer begins with a distant train’s horn cooing through the sound of rustling leaves: the very soundtrack of idyllic, suburban tranquility. The sound is laid over a series of images of different configurations of the main characters; both the editing and the sound begin to accelerate as the configurations grow more fraught, beginning with Patrick Wilson’s pained, stolen look down Winslet’s body in a red one-piece. The image of a toy train collision aligns with a crescendo on the soundtrack -- that train is headed right for us! -- and then the trailer goes slightly bananas, pulling every dramatic image in the film, from sob shots to dangerous exhilaration, and arranging them in an ominous collage of the perils of suburban loneliness. --Michelle Orange
I guess you guys haven't seen the trailer for The Hughes Bros.'s Dead Presidents, huh? What about Forest Gump? I think those are the 2 greatest of all time. Gump is better than the movie. And Dead Prez is the best ever.
Oh... what about the SW Ep 1 teaser? Maybe you should call this the best film trailers on YouTube! LOL. Dead Prez is probably too hard for you to locate.
I think The Dark Knight, Iron Man, and 300 should be included!
Clerks? No love for the Clerks trailer? Sigh.
Honorable mention for the Grindhouse fake trailers? "Don't" was brilliant.
Great list, by the way. Thanks for including 'Man Who Wasn't There'
Seriously? We have to click 50 times just to get the damn list? No thanks.
Like clicking 50 times is soooo hard, right? But you guys forgot about There Will Be Blood!!
50 PAGES?!!! Get back to work researching how to post an article. No Digg for you.
50 PAGES?!!! Get back to work researching how to post an article. No Digg for you.
GREAT article and flawless pick for #1. I actually did a lil piece on that trailer at our own movie blog, so I'm elated to see as your top pick. Yay trailers!