Internet meme · Classic
Re-cut trailer
A re-cut trailer is a mashup video using footage from a movie or its trailers to create a new context or misrepresent the genre or meaning, often as a parody.
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Where it started
A re-cut trailer, or retrailer, is a mashup video that uses footage from a movie or its original trailers to create a completely new context, or one different from the original source material. The mashups are parody trailers that derive humor from misrepresenting original films: for instance, a film with a murderous plot is made to look like a comedy, or vice versa. They started to become popular on the Internet in 2005.
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User-made trailers for established films, using scenes, voice-overs, and music, to alter the appearance of the film's true genre or meaning or to create a new, apparently seamless, film. Examples include casting the thriller-drama The Shining into a romantic comedy, or using footage from the respective films to create Robocop vs. Terminator.
Wikidata Q7299948: re-cut trailer — Parody video made from movie clips and trailers.
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