The Vow

What would you do if the one you loved forgot you and 

your past together within a matter of seconds?  

Anything can change in a minute.

DESCRIPTION
The Vow is a movie that is based off a book, a true story of a couple played by Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams. As IMDb states, “A car accident puts Paige (McAdams) in a coma, and when she wakes up with severe memory loss, her husband Leo (Tatum) works to win her heart again.”  I have watched many movies played by Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams. I’ve watched Dear John, She’s The Man, Step Up, Step Up 2, and Step Up 3 with Channing. I’ve also seen Rachel McAdams in Midnight in Paris, The Notebook, Wedding Crashers, Mean Girls and The Hot Chick.  The movie trailer is 2 and a half minutes long and it was published in June 2011.  The movie does not premiere for almost a year after the trailer is published.

ANALYZE
This trailer definitely pulls you in by emotion, who wouldn't want to find out if this couple reunites and fall back in love and live happily ever after?  It also pulls viewers in because this movie is based on a true story.  Most of us like to watch movies that are based on true stories because we want to think that the good that happens in movies will some day happen to us: most true stories have bad in them, but end with a good side which gives us hope in bad situations in real life.  I don't really understand how a movie trailer could have an Association Principle because we watch movies for entertainment and that's all they benefit us.  If you buy an iPod you can listen to music anywhere you want and it can be the music that you want and enjoy, but watching a movie is really just entertainment right?  They aren't linking anything together to make everyone believe that it will benefit us all.

INTERPRET

This movie reminds me a lot of The Notebook, with Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, which is why I can’t wait until this movie premiers.  I believe that the target audience is almost to anyone.  Anyone who is capable of love is in the target for this movie, but mostly a young audience I think.  It’s mostly geared towards a younger crowd because of the age of actors and actresses, but personally I believe anyone could enjoy this movie.  But I don’t believe that young children would get much out of this trailer.  Other than being confused that their mom or dad could magically forget part of their life.  This ad in a sense could stereotype to young people more likely getting into car wrecks and also stereotyping that women forget things easily.  But other than that I don’t think that this movie trailer is really stereotyping anyone.

EVALUATE

There are some strengths and weaknesses of the trailer that I noticed.  I think they did a great job of portraying this movie, but I don’t necessarily like that they give away most of the movie in just the trailer.  I don’t like this aspect of all movie trailers though.  I love the connection that they show between characters and I also like that this movie is based off of a true story.  It makes me want to go watch this movie more and more. To me, this movie trailer is memorable because it makes you walk away guessing what is going to happen.  As like every other trailer, or for the most part.  But as I mentioned I don't like how trailers give away a lot of information in such a small two minutes.  I will definitely be going to see this movie when it comes out in theaters on February 10^th!  This movie reminds me a lot of The Notebook and it is by far one of my favorite movies.  I’m really excited to see this movie because it is based off of a true story of a young couple that got married and got in a car accident with the wife losing 18 months of her past memory.  It makes me wonder what I would do in that kind of situation, it’s crazy to think what lengths two people will go in this tragedy.


ENGAGE
I have not seen this movie of course, because it will not be in theaters until February 10th, but I  will definitely be going! Probably with my roommate and our boyfriends.  Can't wait to see if this movie is as great as I expect it to be.


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CONCLUSION
This assignment has taught me more about analyzing trailers to movies and I’ve also enjoyed learning about blogging as well.  It's very different than something like Facebook or Twitter.  Blogging is more engaging and I feel like I could learn a lot by searching blogs on topics.  I've had a ton of fun searching around and messing with the designs of my blog.  I had trouble starting out and had trouble getting videos and pictures on the blog, but it all worked out!