I am Groot: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy
Films start a conversation about difficult subjects like racism with the film Get Out or to empower women with the release of Wonder Women. However, before the film is released the industry uses trailers to promote their films, trailers are promotional devices through showing scenes from the movie but, holding enough information back to pique the interest of the viewer trailers are quite short in length compared to the films they promote; because of this they do not necessarily communicate the same story. In a short amount of time trailers must appeal to the viewer with various strategies to get messages across and promote the film, in the trailer for “Guardians of the Galaxy” characters of troubled backgrounds can sometimes form the unlikeliest bonds to do more than …show more content…
In the beginning scene with Peter’s humiliation and the other characters shrugging this scene was meant to be humorous causing . Prior to this he opens the scene with “I’m come from Earth a planet of outlaws” this statement is down played with his humiliation. The trailer uses humor to introduce conflict in the trailer at 1.01 with the character saying, “are you telling me the fate of 12 billion people are in the hands of criminals.” To hear it simplified into one sentence with her flabbergasted face is quite humors. Another example with the trailer using humor is at 1.27 when peter calls everyone “losers” as he starts his talk about life giving them another chance. The trailer also uses humor to end with a character saying “This might not be the best idea”(2.15) after another character says “they call themselves the guardians of the galaxy”(2.12) which is the name of the film implying that either the name is bad or the group itself is a horrible idea. Through humor the trailer can appeal more to the
Films start a conversation about difficult subjects like racism with the film Get Out or to empower women with the release of Wonder Women. However, before the film is released the industry uses trailers to promote their films, trailers are promotional devices through showing scenes from the movie but, holding enough information back to pique the interest of the viewer trailers are quite short in length compared to the films they promote; because of this they do not necessarily communicate the same story. In a short amount of time trailers must appeal to the viewer with various strategies to get messages across and promote the film, in the trailer for “Guardians of the Galaxy” characters of troubled backgrounds can sometimes form the unlikeliest bonds to do more than …show more content…
In the beginning scene with Peter’s humiliation and the other characters shrugging this scene was meant to be humorous causing . Prior to this he opens the scene with “I’m come from Earth a planet of outlaws” this statement is down played with his humiliation. The trailer uses humor to introduce conflict in the trailer at 1.01 with the character saying, “are you telling me the fate of 12 billion people are in the hands of criminals.” To hear it simplified into one sentence with her flabbergasted face is quite humors. Another example with the trailer using humor is at 1.27 when peter calls everyone “losers” as he starts his talk about life giving them another chance. The trailer also uses humor to end with a character saying “This might not be the best idea”(2.15) after another character says “they call themselves the guardians of the galaxy”(2.12) which is the name of the film implying that either the name is bad or the group itself is a horrible idea. Through humor the trailer can appeal more to the