For he's a jolly Goodfella... Sesame Streets
Back in the Spring I wrote about a film school project that aimed, via careful editing and clever voiceovers to prove that you could twist the sentiment and message of almost any film. Students were given movies and trailers and asked to skew them into some unrecognisable versions of themselves. This set off a trend for fake trailers, my two personal favorites being F.A.M.E and Brokeblade Mountain. The first ingeniously made Alan Parker's well meaning musical look like Cannibal Holocaust (For All Must Eat) while the second took footage from the vampire action movie Blade and backed it with the soundtrack from Brokeback Mountain and a soppily poignant voiceover in order to make some fairly neat points about the homoeroticism of action movies.
Well since May things have moved on apace and fake film trailers are now two a penny. The original satirical point seems largely to have been lost, but that is not to say there isn't some very funny stuff out there. One of the best is Sesame Streets, which takes the world's favourite children's puppets and dubs over lines from Martin Scorsese movies. The sight of the furry, electric blue Grover asking "You think I'm fucking funny, I'm here to fucking amuse you?" is priceless. If anyone has their own favourite trailers could they please post them below.
