Virginia Woolf's Trailers: Comparing Bonnie And Clyde

The trailers of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Bonnie and Clyde both have very strange trailers as they have very little to do with the plots of the films. They both present the films in ways that it is if they are trying to brainwash the viewers to see these films. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’s trailer seems almost like for some kind of food commercial and even lists off all the reasons one would need to see it, though not of its substance but of its accolades. Whereas, Bonnie and Clyde’s trailer doesn’t even have any speaking in it until the very end where Bonnie states who they are and what they do. The trailer is more about showing the audience attractive people with their names or phrases like “they’re in love” repeatedly over the images as if

For these two films, which came out in the mid to late sixties, it was completely impossible for them to get away with showing their hands to the mass public. This is specifically true for these two film as they were the very first two of their kind post-code, and even pre-code. These films, as made to believe by their trailers, seem to be very self conscious of their own controversy. They have to lure in an audience in other ways by appealing to their not explicit sexual desires. For example, the Bonnie and Clyde trailer juxtaposes attractive people posing and even sitting in bedrooms together with the intertitles of 60’s free love. As for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the trailer mostly only gives the viewers the viewers the information of who is in it repeatedly. It even specifically says if you need any reason to see it its “Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton”. The scenes that are even shown for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf are misleading to the actual seriousness of the film. Though by stating the names of America’s favorite couple of around this time, audiences will be sure to rush and buy their