Trailer Park: Prince Gladiator of the X-Rings
Tags: Trailer, Trailer Park, Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings, Gladiator, X-Men
You may find Narnia a more savage place than you remember….
Sitting in the theater before Iron Man, I noticed that the trailers, aimed towards the “superhero crowd,” were particularly good this evening. Indiana Jones, the latest Dark Knight trailer—I’d seen them all before, but it was good spectacle on the big screen. But the one that left the biggest impression on me was the trailer for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. The sequel to the successful (yet, in my opinion, so-so) first act of the series looks like it wants to convince people that it will be a hardcore affair. Shots of duels, destruction, and plenty of CG are put together in the latest trailer in such a fashion that seems to intentionally conjure up images of familiar action films:
A nighttime ambush in Narnia resembles an attack on Minas Tirith in Return of the King.
Two instances of men riding winged beasts (the latter from The Fellowship of the Ring).
The four little ones standing in ruins parallels these four hobbits in The Fellowship of the Ring.
Catapults galore in both Prince Caspian and Return of the King.
Plowing through enemies, just like in Two Towers.
The trees are getting hurt in this shot from Narnia, but in Two Towers, they do the hurting.
The masked man in Prince Caspian brought back memories of Maximus in Gladiator.
A face in the water? I know what you’re thinking: the water horses from Fellowship of the Ring!
A wall of ice in Narnia can be just as effective as a one in a school for mutants in X2: X-Men United.
Prince Caspian opened this weekend. It has one of the better trailers I’ve seen in a while; I only hope the film can deliver more than the first one.
The trailer can be seen at MySpace’s “Trailer Park” page (named after the running series on this site, I’m quite sure).
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