I was privy to a rough cut of the 'Batman Begins' trailer.
I usually find trailer descriptions tedious but for this film I'll make an exception. ..
Here's a shot by shot (stylistically, the films look is raw &bleak, in fact it looks a lot like Nolan's 'Insomnia'...funny that, being the same cinematographer...)
Anyway -
The silvery warners Logo appears (like the Harry potter one)
(Christian Bale's voice narrates the trailer in a raspy, low voice)
* "They told me there was nothing out there"
A low angle shot tracking in front of a bleak rainswept wayne manor. It appears to be a wake. A few people mill about with black umbrellas.
*"they told me there was nothing to fear"
Shot of Alfred (caine) with an umbrella, standing in the rain with a young Bruce next to him.
* Low angle shot looking up from the bottom of a well
- A silhouetted young boy falls through the boarded up opening, he drops down towards the camera, debris flying about him.
* back to close up of small boy in the rain next to Alfred.
"but the night my parents were murdered i caught a glimpse of something..."
*flash cut to a terrified young Bruce cowering in terror, he is partially splattered in blood..
*"....I've looked for it ever since" - an adult Bruce walks slowly along a rainy dock looking out over the ocean. Fades out.
*shot of a rugged iceland mountain range.
*bruce's lonely figure climbs to the top of a snowy mountain range and begins to walk down the other side towards a lonely settlement.
*"I went around the world....searched in all the shadows"
In the barren, icey tundra Bruce enters what looks like a tibetan village, it's desolate, run down, delapidated...
*"and there is something out there in the darkness".
In a blizzard, Bruce climbs a stone stairway to a hilltop monastery.
*"something terrifying..."
Bruce enters the monastery in a shot similar to Aragorn entering King Theodan's keep at Helm's deep in The Two Towers - pushing two massive doors open, light shafts in etc...
*"...that will not stop until it gets revenge"
A feral looking Bruce sits in a dungeon like room, he's dishevelled, dirty.
A shadowy figure moves towards him - we do not see it's face - Bruce's head snaps around to see the assailant - the music climaxes - cut to black -there is a long pause...
*shot of Christian Bale's face , he says: "me"
There is a flash frame of the picture we've already seen - a brooding, costumed Batman in dramatic lighting -cuts to black - out of the blackness comes the rust coloured, revamped bat logo - no title - it says "summer 2005'"
so there you go Harry - personally i think it looks fantastic - Nolan you da frickin' man.
Brundlefly out
