The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is adventure comedy and drama. It starts with the main character at home, he is alone so we know he is single and its a very small apartment so we know he has no kids. he is on a dating site trying to get the girl of his dreams which soon fails because he hasn't completed his profile which is the start to seeing what the film is about. He hasn't done anything interesting with his life. He has zoned out moments where he dreams the life he wants. his zoned out moments are filled with adventure and love.
Its narrated through his adventure, you see his story. to me its a slight spoiler because it gives away the whole story plot within 2 minutes you see his normal life, his dream life, what he does, where he goes, why he does it, who he does it for.
the movie is not really set in one location, his home town is somewhere in America i think its new york but i may be mistaken. They don't show a set location because the movie is based all over the world we see scenes in several different locations.
The man character is Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller), hes a awkward charachter in this movie. very shy and pro cautious. he is much like his character in "Along came Polly", "heartbreak kid" and "crazy stupid love".
the pacing at the start of the trailer is slow, nut the slow pacing helps you really understand his life the start of the trailer is meant to show his boring life, and the slow pacing emphasises the boring life. then the more you see him do, the more you see the adventure the quicker the pacing is. the more action you see makes you feel the way he is feeling.
Around thirty seconds into the film we see who the producers are, 20th century fox and Samuel Goldwyn films. Then around half way it say "THIS CHRISTMAS" very big writing telling us when its coming out, so then even when we think about Christmas we think about this movie. there is also messages sent through to use, the message is broken down into a word per slide in big bold writing so we are almost saying what we read. "TO SEE THE WORLD" "TO DRAW CLOSER" "TO FIND EACH OTHER" and there are short scenes in between each message. then the main tag line "THAT IS LIFE" has very graphical scenes in between each words, scenes that are very big in life, so the message comes across very strongly. Then it says the title and once again reminds us when the movie is coming out. right at the end when it reminds us when the movie is coming out, underneath it says a website to go to, to find out more information and a hash tag that is used regularly in the social media so producers can check up on what people think of the movie when ever they want.
There are many special effects in the trailer, we mainly see them later on the trailer when he is in an adventure or when he is in his zoned out place. Special effects include: side of building collapsing, photographs moving, shark scenes, jumping from helicopter to boat, standing on the top of a biplane while its flying, flying through windows out of buildings, crashes through the road, birds in the sky move to create a picture. These can be very powerful effects.
At the start of the trailer like i said before you meant to understand he has a boring miserable life not only does the pacing help this but the music as well. his boring life has slow quiet music, has a big impact on the scene, then as soon as we see his first zone out imagination, where half the building collapses and he is talking to his dream girl the music goes really up beat, and fast, very joyful music. the more adventure we see the more joyful music, the more upbeat you get like his life. the n right at the end it goes back to that quiet peaceful music. The music has a big impact on the trailer.
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