It all started out with Cher's brilliant debate on why the United States should allow the Haitians (accidentally mispronounced by Alicia Silverstone) to stay in the country. One extra line in the speech about how the chairs at the garden party were mismatched. It was a really mini line, so I'm okay with them cutting it. Especially since I have the speech memorized the way that it appeared in the movie.
Then, the trailer cuts to Tai telling Cher and Dionne that they talk like grownups. Nice transition, but that's where the artistry ends.
Ugh, a word bubble pops up declaring "Beverly Hills High School." No
no, my fair trailer. We are all well aware that the hip kids from Clueless attend Bronson Alcott High School. Named after Louisa May Alcott's weirdo father.
For the rest of the trailer, the cuts are choppy, the music doesn't match the video,
and the lines are sort of different than the way I know them. For instance, the line "I totally paused," moves the intonation to totally instead of paused and freaks me out. Lines like that keepacomin. New words enter sentences, new scenes show up, bizarro Clueless. Maybe it's good that I was like 6 when this movie came out, so that I didn't have to deal with this crap trailer.
It's not just that some of it is different than the movie. I can handle that. But after watching some really amazing trailers over the years, and seeing The Holiday, where Cameron Diaz's really annoying
character owns a trailer making company, I expect better. I mean, word bubbles declaring "it's a jungle out there," have nothing to do with Clueless and also seriously annoy me. I want everyone to watch the trailer and see if they can count all of the additional things in the trailer that differ from the movie. I gave you two freebies, so see if you can take it from there.
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