The title sequence in the trailers

Can you please place a link to the trailer in question? Also, please reserve small questions like this to the Status Board. If you add more material to your opening post (using the edit button) this thread probably won't get locked by another staff member on duty. -abordoli (staff)

This one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uDIznlq6WY It's slowed down. I took a screen shot at 1.06 [img]http://www.houriganwebworks.com/images/PromRev.png[/img]

Did you also notice the monolith in the 3rd scene? Right there at the start where we are looking at the sky, on Skye (Scottish Island). A big monolith (a literal one - single standing stone) in the same patch of screen and similar shape to the outline of the rising disc ship. Subliminal devices to plant the idea of continuity from earlier scenes into our head, even though nothing actually links them conclusively. Revelations of course is that whole 'end of the world' thing, which some people think the Mayans predicted for this year (they didn't btw) Ridley Scott was a fan of Kubrick, who liked to implant ideas this way also. After all the monolith of 2001 is now iconic.

And the flute to start the ship ties in with the blowing of a trumpet in heaven... but also with some Greek Legend of Ulysses where a monster is subdued by music and a map can be retrieved... I forget which one. All very subtle cues to get us thinking along certain lines without realising it.

I would say it's just you

I didn't see any of the viral advertising prior to going to the film (just because I was busy, not because I was avoiding it.) I say, well spotted. These things are meant to be subtle, and so subtle that their resemblances can be written off as seeing things that aren't there, like in a Rorschach test.

@abordoli I think this question is legitimate as any other to begin a new thread/discusison about. So why lock it? The status board is just that, statuses. Not catalysts for discussions. It's very "live" and "for the moment" and the total antithesis for this kind of thread.