Fan-Made Trailer Double Feature: Paper ‘Prometheus’, Hot Dog ‘Dark Knight Rises’
The success of a trailer can be measured in a million different ways — through total views, through audience tracking, through informal polls, through detailed analyses — but of the newest, and most enjoyable, methods may be to see how many parodies spring up around it. After all, in the digital age, can a movie really say it’s made a mark on pop culture until it’s spawned at least a couple of sweded versions or oddball mash-ups?
By that standard, the marketing forPrometheusandThe Dark Knight Risesare doing very well indeed. Two new videos have sprung up recent days, one a painstakingly recreatedPrometheustrailer done all with paper and flashlights, the other a goofy take on theDark Knight Risespaper done with hot dogs. Watch both after the jump.
One of the aspects Fox’s real Prometheus trailer has going for it is its stunning, impeccably rendered special effects, so I’m pleasantly surprised to see that Betz’s much, much lower-rent paper version works as well as it does.Ridley Scott’s indelible imagery will be presented in glorious 3D when Prometheus opens this Friday,June 8, but it turns out it looks pretty striking in 2D as well. And thatMichael Fassbender,Charlize Theron, andNoomi Rapaceare still fantastic actors even in paper form.
Taking a much more absurdist approach to its inspiration isSausage Party’sThe Dark Knight Risestrailer, which follows the beats of the original only with grocery store hot dogs standing in for all the various characters. I think we may have covered this on Superhero Bits previously, but I couldn’t resist pairing it with paperPrometheusfor a fan-made short-film double feature.
[viaThe AV Club]
Overall, the hot dogs make this a much sillier affair than the real gloom-and-doom version, but man, the close-ups of those googly eyes are freaking me out. All the weiners just look sodead inside.Christopher Nolan’s real, probably totally hot dog-free version ofThe Dark Knight RisesopensJuly 20.
