Hey folks, Harry here.... I had been hearing all sorts of rumors about the VANILLA SKY trailer being online, from Atilla this DIVX version HERE also got this in from Ted.... Enjoy...
Hey Harry, how's it going? Ted Smith here. Just letting you know that on Friday, Entertainment Tonight showed the new trailer for VANILLA SKY ... and just, WOW. I had been waiting for this trailer ever since I saw "Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes)" months ago and finally on Friday, there it was.
The trailer starts out with a Penelope Cruz voice over whispering "Open Your Eyes" and the first minute or so leads you to believe that you're watching a trailer for a romantic comedy. We get the “From the director Jerry Maguire” and then it goes on to set up Cruise's character as a rich, pretty boy womanizer type and shows how he then falls for Penelope Cruz's character with a few clips that are very "Crowe-ish" - with the cute, clever dialogue and all.
Then about halfway through, the mood of the trailer completely changes and has a real thriller/mystery feel to it. I wouldn't say it becomes "dark," but it's the total opposite from the first half. The last thirty seconds or so establish that there IS going to be some huge revelation at the end of the film, but does a great job in retaining themystery of it all. At the end of the trailer it says, “Forget what you know about…,” then dozens of words like “Fear, Love, Reality, etc…” rapidly flash on screen. It then cuts to Cruise’s character standing alone in an eerily empty Times Square with the words “… and Open Your Eyes” on screen. Cruise and Cruz both look great and Cameron Diaz seems as though she’ll play the psycho ex-girlfriend part perfectly. Although I only remember Jason Lee and Kurt Russell being in a couple of shots, they both look great as well. As for the music, I think there were three (maybe four) different songs/scores, but I had never heard any of them before. There’s one at the beginning that don’t really remember, then there’s your typical (and very Crowe-ish) cute romantic little song in the middle, then a faster, darker, more uptempoed song that fit the last half of this long, 3 minute + trailer.
If you have ever seen Open Your Eyes, Vanilla Sky looks to be almost identical to it... just even better. There were so many scene clips in the trailer that I recognized as being strait from Open Your Eyes, except they featured Tom Cruise and had a Cameron Crowe like feel to them. I read an article in Entertainment Weekly where Crowe said Open Your Eyes is “like the song our band really liked and we decided to cover it our own way.” For some reason I always took that as meaning they may have changed the story somewhat or changed a major plot point. But from this trailer, like I said, Vanilla Sky looks to follow the story of Open Your Eyes to a tee... And that’s not a bad thing, because a great movie just got even better. December 14 can’t come soon enough.
Ted
