YouTube is a mixed bag at times. There are some wonderfully educational channels, some funny ones and some really creative ones. Last week, I told you about Kane Pixel’s Backrooms. This week I am talking about 1950s-style Super Panavision 70 trailers.
Trailers are a funny thing; they are supposed to encourage you to watch a movie or TV show. Half the time they manage to do the opposite and put you right off. I’ve always loved the old-fashioned trailers from a simpler time.
This is what a few YouTube channels are doing at the moment. There will be a link to a few I like at the bottom of the page but I enjoy things like this:
I really want to see that! A hero, a villain and a super hot chick with her cleavage on show, what’s not to like?
The Scripts
The scripts for these things are wonderfully delicious. I love the old-timey voice-over of a very distinguished man. He explains what the story is. There’s a breakdown of the characters, so you’ll know what to expect.
It does make me laugh how most of these pretty much break down the story and give most of it away. That’s one of those things that I’m happy to ignore though, because you know the story anyway.
Getting all arty-farty, but I also love the deliciousness of the dialogue, it’s so rich. I write my own scripts and I have to take some of the paragraphs to Chat GTP to liven them up a bit. Whoever writes these scripts really understands the movies.
The A.I. CG
The CG in these Panavision Trailers is odd, it’s good, but at the same time, wrong. You can see where the computer freaks out here and there, like with hands. You can overlook this though as the rest of the visuals are really good and imaginative.
It makes me wonder how much of a prompt they gave the A.I. The computer obviously looks around the net and then designs what it thinks it should look like. Darth Vader doesn’t have eyes. Princess Leia seems to have bosoms though.
What is great about these is that the men and men and the women are women. All the men have chiseled jaws and all the women have beautiful hair and chests like beachballs.
There’s no ‘Is that a guy or a chick?’ thing going on. I watched a movie the other day which had a lesbian couple. Well, I think it was a lesbian couple, one of them, I honestly couldn’t tell if it was a guy or a girl. Well, until she had to throw something, then I knew it was a girl.
They must have used the prompt ‘beautiful woman’ for the women and look at what the computer thinks is beautiful. No blue hair, half-shaved heads here.
A Rabbit Hole
I had no idea how many channels there are making these things. Having a look around YouTube, trying to find some links, there are lots of them. I’ve spent the last 30 minutes watching all sorts of these things and loving them.
There’s no point in linking any channels, just have a search for 1950’s Panavision 70 and you’ll find some.
AI is here to stay and it will start making movies at some point. There’s a whole other discussion about that, but in the meantime, enjoy some old-timey trailers with how chicks in them. We’ll worry about Skynet another day, that’s a tomorrow me problem.