Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 16:42:34 EDT
From: <DCC117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Star Wars hype? Not!
 <92282.130748IO11330@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> <1b27ttINNbim@bigboote.WPI.EDU>

In article <1b27ttINNbim@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, jseaver@starbird.WPI.EDU (Jason John
Seaver) says:
>
>In article <92282.130748IO11330@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> The illustrius Pat Ellis (the
>DM) <IO11330@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
>>Well I tend to agree that there really isn't alot of hype going on
>>right now.  BUT i'd like to comment that I'd like to see a different
>>Kind of type if and when the First Trilogy ever goes into production.
>>
>>It seems to me that everyone know what star wars is.  What I would like
>>to see is to commercial/hype that doesn't show anything from the movie.
>>Kind of like what happened about four or five months before Willow came
>>out.  Lots of hints and suggestions but clear picture.  Every one will want
>>to see the movie because its star Wars.  Perhaps a few adds alot the lines
>>of the intro to Star wars (In a galaxy far far away........ ) with very
>>brief clips of film 2 or 3 second at most...... any comments?
>>                                 Pat Ellis
>
>        I must agree, this would be the way to do it.  I'd go even farther,
>though.  Don't show _ANY_ clips until the Saturday AFTER it starts.  Why?
>We're all going to be hyper enough when we hear that new SW films are coming
>out.  If we actually see stuff from them, seeing the same clips for a month
>before the movie is going to eventually bore us.  Another reason is that just
>about everyone in the western world knows how the first trilogy (if that's
>what
>Lucas decides to do) ends, or at least what the RESULTS are, and we've got
>certain expectations already.  I'd really like to go in there knowing as
>little
>about the movies as possible.
>
>                                                        -Jay

THERE IS NOT A CHANCE IN HELL THAT THEY WOULD EVER DO THIS. We will all see
the movies anyway, regardless of how "spoiling" the previews are.
So, in our case, Lucasfilm has nothing to lose at ALL by spoiling the movie.
 Furthermore,
showing a lot of cool scenes from the movie will make a lot of previously
uninterested people want to see the movie, and not showing ANYTHING would
simply leave this potential untapped. Lucasfilm is not going to mess with
their chance to produce the biggest opening draw in world history by doing
something as silly as this. I agree that it would be nice, however, but
those of us in the real world will have to just try to avoid the previews
as best we can. I tried real hard for Star Trek VI, but I still somehow
ended up seeing a preview that totally ruined what would have been a rather
suspenseful sequence at the end of the film.


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