I’ve just witnessed two trailers that are poles apart but both equally as good. Chen Kaige‘s The Promise (Mo gik) and Kwak Kyeong-taek‘s Typhoon (Taepung). Both movies, if you hadn’t guessed, are from the eastern shores and are absolutely jam packed with goodness.
Let’s take the trailer for Typhoon (13.3Mb WMV) courtesy of Kung Fu Cinema. They do have another trailer link, but it doesn’t appear to be working, so you’ll have to work through the awful complexity of this one. Select the Free option for download, wait twenty seconds and then select the link that appears.
The trailer looks full of style and strength, some of those performances look to be really powerful, and there’s great reality based action. By that I mean in total contrast to the trailer for The Promise (62Mb WMV). Actually it’s more of a teaser, or to be exact a banquet as the teaser comes in at a whopping eleven minutes and probably tells most of the story, but it looks stunning. Scene after scene of operatic style beauty. It captured me totally and I was seduced by the visuals.
Both are going straight on my list to watch, and both for totally different reasons. These trailers really do show what Hollywood is lacking. Of course, there’s always the trailer mix factor to consider, but they just look so good it’s hard to imagine the films fall short.
Both trailers are absolutely stunning!! But ive already seen those trailer before. I’m a daily reader of KFCC, and your site as well. I get my domestic news from you guys and my international news from KFCC.
You guys have been doing a great job of killing my spare time. I love this site. You guys should check out http://www.twitchfilm.net. The archive carry a stunning trailer of a movie titled “Shadowless Sword”. IF you like the Typoon trailer, you’ll be very impress with Shadowless Sword. New Line Cinema put in a bunch of money(korean curency) to be a part this movie.
My bad, apologies, missed a ‘C’!
Now, what about the trailers?
That’s Kung Fu CULT Cinema. Kung Fu Cinema is a different website. :)