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I wouldn't say I've made up an entire movie because of it, but I have very widely missed what a movie was from its trailer.
Kung Pow! Enter the Fist had such a shit trailer, I had no interest at all in seeing it. The only reason I did, was because my siblings wanted to go and my mom didn't wanna drive so she paid me to take them. Had I known it was a comedy and how they made it, I would have actually been hyped. That shit was the funniest movie I ever saw up to that point.
From the trailers I remember seeing at the time, I just thought they had simply brought an old kung fu movie that was only in Chinese or something to the US for the first time with English dubbing. And it didn't look like a particularly good kung fu movie. They did absolutely nothing to make it look like a comedy, with the gag being that they were just riffing on an old kung fu movie.
Kung Pow is a hard movie to make a trailer for. It's a movie that is best marketed by having a friend explain it to you.
I remember the trailer I saw showing him dodging milk shot from a cow’s udder Matrix style. That did the trick for my 11y/o brain.
You might appreciate “What’s Up, Tiger Lily”. It’s a comedic re-dub of a Japanese spy flick.
How did they make it?
If I recall correctly they took an existing kung fu movie and edited the main character in. Well, the cow scene was new, too
It’s also deliberately poorly dubbed, which adds to the fun
I didn't know that, I may check it out then!
It’s remarkably well done considering the overall low budget feel. Corridor Crew did a breakdown.
https://youtu.be/ADr3r_mM5h4?si=oiArHj19_tsldWot @3:45
Thanks, I don't like what feels like people shouting at me in a video. Do people watch that stuff?
https://youtu.be/ADr3r_mM5h4
Fixed the link