Re-cut trailers

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Re-cut trailers refers to a re-edited film trailer that is created by re-editing footage from that film, or possibly just from that film's trailer. Re-cut trailers have become a popular internet phenomenon since fall of 2005. In almost all cases, these re-cut trailers derive their humor from casting the film's plot in a different light - these fake trailers present the film as something that it is very much not. For instance, a film with a murderous plot is made to look like a light and happy film, or vice versa.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Kill Christ 1.2 Shining 1.3 Brokeback to the Future 1.4 SNL Digital Short Recut 2 Brokeback Mountain/Post-Brokeback Mountain Recut Parodies 3 Snakes on a Plane Recut Parodies 4 Horror/Thriller Movie Re-Cuts 5 Romantic movie re-cuts 6 Crossover/Crossover-like recuts 7 Others 8 Other Recut Parodies 9 See also

[edit] History

[edit] Kill Christ

One of the first re-cut trailers debuted in December of 2003, named Kill Christ. It is a mock trailer parodying the films Kill Bill, Vol. 1 and The Passion of the Christ. It was created by New York University sophomores Ben Campbell, Sal Perez, Jack Picone and Spencer Somers. Using footage from the first Passion trailer, a new trailer was cut in the exact same format as the Kill Bill trailer, replacing "In 2003 Uma Thurman Will Kill Bill" with "In 2004 The Jews Will Kill Christ." The short piece was a satire on anti-Semitism and on movie trailer clichés.

The trailer was put on Somers' NYU homepage and within a few weeks had become somewhat of an internet phenomenon. Supposedly even some in Hollywood saw the piece, including Kevin Smith and Quentin Tarantino. This was more or less confirmed when Icon Pictures, the production company of Mel Gibson, threatened to sue NYU if the trailer wasn't removed from Somers' homepage. NYU relented and the trailer relocated to another site; Icon did not pursue the matter further.

[edit] Shining

A contest held by the Association of Independent Creative Editors led to the creation of a re-cut trailer of The Shining ([1]) in October of 2005, which made the horror film appear to be a light-hearted family drama about father/son bonding, adding voice-over narration and Peter Gabriel's song "Solsbury Hill" to augment the re-edited footage. The video, created by Robert Ryang from editorial house PS 260 ([2]) in New York City, became an internet phenomenon, and made Ryang minorly famous, as well as winning him the contest. The video also jumpstarted the popularity of re-cut trailers for the internet community.

[edit] Brokeback to the Future

Main article, including extensive list of examples: Brokeback Mountain parodies.

Soon after the Shining trailer took the internet by storm, a comedy group named Chocolate Cake City ([3]) created a re-cut trailer for the Back to the Future films, making the films characters seem to be in a romantic homosexual relationship akin to the one had by the main characters in the film Brokeback Mountain. This video has had much popularity and reception over the internet.

Brokeback to the Future was one of several re-cuts that emerged in late 2005 in which a homosexual relationship was suggested between two male leads. As Brokeback to the Future gained popularity in early 2006, other re-cuts were created that specifically parodied Brokeback Mountain.

[edit] SNL Digital Short Recut

Recently, The Lonely Island made an Saturday Night Live's Digital Short involving a trailer of Mel Gibson's Apocalypto which featured Jewish racial slur similar to Mel Gibson's drunk incident. The trailer is located here ([4]).

[edit] Brokeback Mountain/Post-Brokeback Mountain Recut Parodies

Following the popularity of Brokeback Mountain, a number of trailers were created using the same characteristics as the well-known trailer, including fade ins, and the trademark soundtrack. Some examples include:

• Anchorman: The Legend of Brokeback Mountain suggests a relationship between Ron Burgundy and Champ Kind in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.
• Brokeback Bambi parodies Bambi II featuring a romance between Bambi and Ronno.
• Brokeback Galactica creatively re-edits clips from the new Battlestar Galactica, implying a homosexual relationship between Admiral Adama and his XO Colonel Tigh.
• Brokeback Gump suggests a relationship between Forrest Gump and Bubba.
• Brokeback Lake explodes an already suggestive relationship in Lake Placid (film).
• Brokeback Rocky parodies Rocky and the Brokeback Mountain trailer.
• Brokeback-O-Rama parodies Futurama episode "I, Roommate" and the Brokeback Mountain trailer.
• Brokeback Rocky III parodies Rocky III and the Brokeback Mountain trailer.
• Brokeback Rocky Mountain parodies the Rocky films and the Brokeback Mountain trailer.
• Brokeback Mount Doom suggest a romance between the hobbits Frodo and Sam from The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. There are various other Brokeback Mountain parodies in YouTube including Brokebaggins Mountain, Brokeback of the Ring and The Fellowship of Brokeback Mountain.
• Brokeback Omicron Persei 8 parodies the Futurama episode called Spanish Fry and the Brokeback Mountain Trailer.
• Brokeback to the Future parodies Back to the Future featuring a romance between Marty McFly and the Doc.
• BrokeBLADE Mountain reformats Blade as a love triangle.
• Dumb and Dumber portrays the main characters of the film, Harry and Lloyd, being in a homosexual relationship.
• Harry Potter and Brokeback Mountain parodies the Harry Potter films.
• Spongeback Mountain parodies the Valentine's Day and I Had an Accident episodes of the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants and the film The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie featuring a romance between SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star.
• Star Wars: The Empire Brokeback parodies Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back featuring a romance between C-3PO and R2-D2 (whose English lines are subtitled when he speaks gibberish).
• Brokeback Trek parodies Star Trek featuring a romance between Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock
• Walker, Brokeback Ranger combines Walker, Texas Ranger clips (from Late Night with Conan O'Brien) with Chuck Norris "facts"[5].

There are other parodies, made before and after Brokeback Mountain, which also suggest homosexual relationships between the main characters, including a parody of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire[6] suggesting a relationship between Harry and Ron; Seven[7] restyled as a romantic comedy; The Terminator[8] and Terminator 2: Judgment Day[9] with the Terminator as love interest, and Top Gun[10] focusing on the relationship between LT Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and Tom 'Iceman' Kazanski.

[edit] Snakes on a Plane Recut Parodies

Similar to Brokeback Mountain popularity, There are few Snakes on a Plane recut trailers that involves crossover to other films.

• Clerks On A Plane An Recut of Clerks II mixed with scenes and sequence plotlines from both Snakes on a Plane, Pulp Fiction and others.
• Psychopath On A Plane An Recut focusing on Edward Norton's character from Fight Club (film) against Samuel L Jackson and the cast of Snakes on a Plane.
• Snakes On A Plane 2.0 An Recut involving Snakes on a Plane mixed with scenes from many other films featuring planes, such as Air Force One, Anger Management (film), Die Hard 2, Flightplan, Passenger 57, and Red Eye.
• Snakes On United 93 An controversial recut of United 93 (film) mashed with Snakes on a Plane. There's also an updated version known as Snakes On United 93 (Redux).

[edit] Horror/Thriller Movie Re-Cuts

These following recuts involved a horror/thriller movie take on lighter feel flicks. These includes:

• Enter The Dragon portrays the film Enter the Dragon as a horror.
• A Christmas Gory portrays the film A Christmas Story as a horror.
• American Beauty portrays Kevin Spacey's character in American Beauty as a sinister psychopath intent on molesting his daughter.
• American Pie portrays the film American Pie as a horror film. This was the first re-cut to make full use of digital visual effects which were used to enhance the characters.
• American Pie 2 - Redemption An effects-laced sequel to the American Pie re-cut.
• Big portrays the film Big as a suspense film about a kidnapped child.
• The Big Lebowski portrays the film The Big Lebowski as a horror movie.
• The Bueller Code takes scenes from the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off and combines it with plot elements and dialogue from The Da Vinci Code.
• Dead And Deader portrays Dumb And Dumber as a thriller involving Jim Carrey as a killer and Jeff Daniels as a psychopath.
• Dumb and Dumber portrays Dumb and Dumber as an adventure/thriller movie, somewhat similar to The Lord of the Rings.
• Eternal Darkness portrays the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as a horror film.
• E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial portrays the film as a silent alien invasion.
• Ferris the 13th portrays an 80s teen comedy as a horror film by combining scenes from Ferris Bueller's Day Off with a remixed hybrid of Don LaFontaine's famous Friday the 13th horror trailers.
• From the Marcy Playground combines Marcy Playground music videos to make a horror movie trailer.
• Garden State portrays the film Garden State as a horror/thriller in which the lead character suspects foul play in his mother's mysterious death.
• Good Will Hunted portrays the film Good Will Hunting as a thriller.
• Groundhog Day portrays the film Groundhog Day as a paranoid thriller.
• Groundhog Day the 13th portrays the film Groundhog Day as a slasher horror movie where the protagonist becomes a psychotic killer.
• Happy Gilmore portrays the film Happy Gilmore as a horror film.
• The Lion King portrays the film The Lion King as a horror film.
• Meet the Parents portrays the film Meet the Parents as a suspense thriller.
• My Neighbor Totoro protrays the film My Neighbor Totoro as a horror film
• Office Space portrays the film Office Space as a thriller.
• Orgazmo portrays the film Orgazmo as a horror film.
• Pleasantville portrays the film Pleasantville as a mystery/thriller.
• Scary Mary portrays the 1964 movie Mary Poppins as a horror film.
• School of Rock portrays the film School of Rock as a thriller/drama in which Jack Black's character is presented as a maniac.
• Sleepless in Seattle portrays the film Sleepless in Seattle as a Fatal Attraction type film.
• Snow White And The 7 Dwarfs portrays the movie involving Snow White being stalked (or haunted) by Seven Dwarfs.
• The Sound of Music portrays The Sound of Music as a horror film.
• Titanic by Dustin Stephens of "PS260[11]" portrays the film Titanic as a horror film.
• West Side Story By Tom Colella portrays the film West Side Story as a zombie movie.
• What's Eating Gilbert Grape? portrays the movie as mystery/suspense involving Johnny Depp as murderer and Leonardo DiCaprio as supposed-to-be-dead victim.
• What About Bob portrays the film What About Bob as a physchological thriller where the lovable Bob Wiley is not so lovable at all.
• The 40-Year-Old Psycho portrays the film The 40-Year-Old Virgin as a horror film in which Steve Carrell is a sexually sadistic serial killer.

[edit] Romantic movie re-cuts

More serious films can be recut to portray the film as a romance:

• American Psycho portrays the film American Psycho as a love story about a New York yuppie who falls in love with his secretary.
• Fight Club portrays the film Fight Club as a romantic comedy.
• How Scarface Got His Groove Back portrays the film Scarface as a romantic comedy about an uptight loser who has to learn how to cut loose.
• Pretty Persuasion Portrays Pretty Persuasion as a romance, between 14 year old Kimberly Joyce and her teacher Mr. Anderson.
• Psycho portrays the film Psycho as a romantic comedy.
• Requiem for a Dream portrays the film Requiem for a Dream as a romantic comedy.
• Shawshank Redemption portrays the film Shawshank Redemption as a romantic drama.
• Swingers portrays the film Swingers as a melancholy romance/drama.
• Taxi Driver portrays Taxi Driver as a romantic comedy.
• Troopers: A Thoroughly Modern Love Story casts the much-maligned movie adaptation of Starship Troopers as a teen romantic comedy, set to a professionally edited version of Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone."

• Gay 007 portrays a love story between Bond and Le Chiffre from Casino Royale (2006 film)
• Live Free or Die Hard A fictional Super Bowl spot for the film.
• Live Free or Die Hard A fan made remix of the official trailer.
• Transformers A fan made remix of the official trailer.

[edit] Crossover/Crossover-like recuts

There are recut trailers involving the close meeting of two films (besides the titles). These include:

• American History X combines images of American History X with dialogue from The Country Bears.
• Batman vs Superman combines footage from the Batman movies with the TV show Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
• Brokeback Bambi portrays the film Bambi II with music from The Shawshank Redemption.
• Fantastic Four combines scenes from Roger Corman's 1994 Unreleased Version of The Fantastic Four (film) with scenes from teaser of 2005 release of Fantastic Four (film).
• Finding Nemo: Impossible portrays the film Finding Nemo with audio from Mission: Impossible III.
• The Land Before Time portrays the film The Land Before Time with excerpts from The Shawshank Redemption.
• Lionz n the Hood features images from The Lion King and sound dubbed from Boyz n the Hood.
• Mission: Impossible III portrays a conflict between the characters of Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman) from Mission: Impossible III and Scrat from Ice Age: The Meltdown.
• Mission: Napoleon Dynamite Napoleon Dynamite and Ethan Hunt (Portrayed by Tom Cruise) must save Deb.
• Old School involves a crossover between Old School and The Village.
• Raging Fred portrays excerpts from The Flintstones with dialogue from Raging Bull
• Superman 1978 trailer remake is an edit of shots from 1978's Superman and 1980's Superman II, over the audio from the 2006 Superman Returns trailer [12].
• Toy Story 2: Requiem portrays the film Toy Story 2 as if it were the film Requiem for a Dream, which is about drug addiction.
• Transformers combines the audio of the first Lord of the Rings film trailer with images from The Transformers: The Movie, with Rodimus Prime as Frodo Baggins, Optimus Prime as Gandalf, and the Autobot Matrix of Leadership as the One Ring.
• United 57 Similar to Snakes on United 93, This is a recut trailer combining elements of United 93 (film) and Wesley Snipe's Passenger 57.
• Weird Al meets Starship Troopers A crossover between Starship Troopers (film) and footage of Weird Al Yankovic as Rambo from UHF (film).
• Wonder History X Combines the Wonder Years with American History X.
• X-Men 3: The Last Standing Ovation combines clips from X-Men, X2 and Oklahoma!

[edit] Others

There are other re-cut trailers on the internet that aren't as well known. They include the following.

• A Clockwork Orange portrays the movie as drama involving friendship and getting through bad times.
• Akira Recut Portrays the anime horror akira as a non-horror movie.
• Alien depicts the 1979 horror classic Alien as a wry buddy picture.
• Apocalypse Now portrays the dark Vietnam War movie Apocalypse Now as a light-hearted beachparty-like film.
• Bring The Boys Back Home takes The Wall and turns it into a plain war movie.
• Cabin Fever portrays the film Cabin Fever as a melodrama.
• Citizen Kane: Tha Remix portrays the film Citizen Kane as an urban drama about a young hustler rising to the top to become the #1 pimp.
• Dodgeball portrays Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story as a sports epic rather than a comedy.
• Donnie Darko portrays the movie as Action Thriller rather than Sci-Fi Arthouse.
• Drop Dead Fred portrays the movie as a bizarre fantasy thriller/drama rather than the comedy.
• Dumb Fiction portrays the film Dumb and Dumber as a Quentin Tarantino film in the vein of Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs.
• Must Love Jaws portrays the film Jaws as a family movie similar to Free Willy.
• Power Rangers: The War of the Green Ranger portrays the Green Ranger saga from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers as an epic fantasy adventure.
• Prince of Space: Made in 2006, with footage from the 1959 Japanese film, Prince of Space. This movie has been featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000, a show that based its comedy on the mocking of poorly made movies. This trailer turns this laughable children's movie into an awe inspiring epic.
• Save Ferris: portrays Ferris Bueller's Day Off as a drama about out of control, drug abusing teens.
• Schindler's Pots portrays the film Schindler's List as a light-hearted comedy concerning misadventures at Schindler's factory.
• Scottish Widower portrays the film Trainspotting as a story about friendship.
• Something Blue depicts the film Blue Velvet as a romantic comedy in the vein of Monster-In-Law and Meet the Parents, where Dennis Hopper's character is the father-in-law. Like Shining, it was created by Robert Ryang [13].
• 10 Things I Hate About Commandments portrays the film The Ten Commandments as a teen comedy, such as 10 Things I Hate About You.
• The Bench Warmers portrays the movie as a friendship drama.
• The Exorcist portrays the film The Exorcist as a Disney-like family Christmas movie.
• The Wonder Sense portrays the television series The Wonder Years as the Sixth Sense movie trailer.
• Titanic Portrays the Titanic being capsized by a giant tidal wave (using footage and sound from the 2006 film Poseidon, and from the 1997 film Titanic).
• The Ring Portrays the horror film "The Ring" as a tearjerker about a woman with 7 days to live.
• V For Vendetta Portrays the film "V for Vendetta" as a feel-good family flm.
• Poseidon Portrays the 2006 film "Poseidon" as a disaster movie with Xenomorphs on board the capsized vessel.
• White noise. cant jump portrays the film White Noise as an action/comedy movie the main character of the movie is assassinated by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

[edit] Other Recut Parodies

These Recuts aren't trailers but instead either opening credits, short presentation or other. There are also trailers that can't fit in the categories above. These are the following Recuts:

• John Carpenter's The Doors Depicting The Thing as if Kurt Russell portrayed as Jim Morrison of The Doors alive and well in the arctics.

• Lost/A-TEAM Depicting characters from Lost in the opening credits to A-Team.

• Neo vs Robocop is actually a three-and-a-half minute battle between The Matrix's Neo and Robocop along with Yoda from Star Wars. There's also an Gold Edition of the same clip at [14].

• Silent Clerks Depicting Clerks (film) as if it was early Silent Movie style.

• StarWoz Combining the elements of Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz, This is a four minute presentation.

• Tie-Tanic Combined elements of Star Wars and Titanic, This is a presentation with CGI images of various Star Wars characters and ships involved in Titanic.

• Titanic: Two The Surface A fictional sequel to James Cameron's 1997 film in which Leonardo DiCaprio's character Jack Dawson is found frozen among the wreckage of the Titanic, then is brought back to the surface and thawed. He then escapes and is on the run from authorities in modern day New York City.

[edit] See also

• Slash fiction
• Brokeback Mountain Parodies