A few days ago it was Super Bowl Sunday in
America. I came to know about it from newspapers. In the newspaper story it was mentioned
that trailers of some big budget highly anticipated Hollywood films were
released during half time. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/super-bowl-trailers-avengers-battleship-john-carter-287191
If you dig a little deep –
figuratively speaking, Google with some effort – you will come to know that the
first high profile commercial/ trailer released during the Super Bowl was Apple
Computer’s historic 1984 ad,
released obviously in 1984. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8
This commercial was based on the Big Brother concept of the George Orwell novel
1984. It ran only once but achieved its objective. This was the ad which
launched personal computer, the device which was Time magazine’s Machine of the
year, the only device to be accorded the honour so far.
Anyway, this year trailers of John Carter, The Avengers, Battleship and Act of Valor were released. The one that caught my eye in the news story was The Avengers. Earlier a trailer of the movie was released last year http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zatgnqdIefs and a small clip from the movie was shown in theaters at the end of Captain America http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3eNDUzUjLU (video quality not very good) . The trailer had impressed me a lot. The movie is said to be in the making for 6 years. It is said that Marvell made movies on Thor, Hulk, Iron Man and Captain America (Raj Comics super hero "Tiranga" is inspired from him) - All these movies have some reference to another super hero or to Nick Fury (Samuel Jackson) - to popularize the comic book super heroes all over the world and to get people ready and licking their lips in anticipation for this epic saga - a potetial summer blockbuster - made on a gigantic scale.
I went to youtabe and searched for The Avengers Super Bowl Trailer, clicked the link with highest number of hits and got this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGt-saFvkNk. There are only two lines of dialogue in the trailer apart from the background voice over. The villain Loky (he is the only negative character shown in the trailers so I am assuming that he is the only villain) says - I have got an army . In reply to this Tony stark aka Iron Man says - We have got a Hulk. After Downey's Line we are treated to visuals of Hulk leaping in air and thrashing or should I say crashing several enemy planes/ aerial vehicles (it shows that the Green Monster is equal to an army) . Downey's repartee is clever and I hope we will be treated to may more such lines in the film because such a brand of humour has become Downey's trademark. Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Sherlock Holmes films, Tropic Thunder etc are perfect examples of this. Even Chaplin (biopic on Charlie Chaplin where Downey played Chaplin and he played it superbly) and the brainy thriller Zodiac had dashes of this trademark Downey humour.
The Avengers have a heavy duty line up of actors - Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark/ Iron Man), Chris Ivans (Steve Rogers/ Captain America), Jeremy Renner (Clin Baton/ Hawkeye), Scarlett Johansson (Natasha Romanoff/ Black Widow), Cobie Smulders - Robin Scherbatsky for all you How you Met Your Mother fans - (Maria Hill), Samuel Jaackson (Nick Fury), Gwyneth Paltrow ( Pepper Potts) and Mark Ruffallo (Bruce Banner/ Hulk) among others. I am eagerly waiting for 3rd May 2012 (The Avengers release date is 4th May) so that I can watch it a day early on Imax Paid Preview :-)
Ciao
P.S. Ben Kingsley, the Oscar winning
actor who has worked in films like Gandhi, Schindler’s List, Shutter Island,
AI: Artificial Intelligence and the recently released Scorcese’s Hugo (He also
worked in Teen Patti, the pathetic film which also starred Amitabh Bachchan in his hamming avatar) is
a Gujarati – real name, Krishna Pandit Bhanji, born in Yorkhire, England.
P.P.S. All you Saving Private Ryan fans, please sea The Longest Day - its a request and recommendation - a very good movie made on an amazingly grand scale for its time.
