Week 3_01/ 29/ 2016_The Merc with a Mouth

         One of my all time favorite fictional character is DeadPool, and this Feb 12 will be the signification for this Canadian anti-hero's glory as he finally got himself a stand alone movie. The joys and hypes coming from the fan are immeasurable, including me because so far, the two trailers that had been release seem to be very promising. Out of the two, I will analyzed the red band version of the trailer.
           DeadPool, or Wade Wilsons had been feature in many x-men movie, but he never really be able to shine, or prove to the audience that his potentials are limitless. Fan who've seen that version of DeadPool had been very outraged toward the director knowledge about this anti-superhero. To fix that, the trailer emphasized one of the many characteristic of DeadPool which is the ability to turn everything into a joke. At the beginning of the trailer (0:10), as a cancer patient who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, he said "The cancer is only my liver, lung, and brain. All things I can live without". The first thing that came into the audience mind, especially the long time fan, after hearing that is "Who else would say that but DeadPool?" This joke made it appearance in DeadPool Volume #1, 1997, and had it special place in fan's heart. By referencing the joke into the trailer, the director not only proved himself to possess the knowledge about this characters but also a very effective way of using pathos by awaking the long lost memories the fan had toward DeadPool.
          Dig deeper into the core, this movie starred Ryan Reynolds, as DeadPool. According to Ryan, this character is one of his all time favorite comic superhero. In 2009 when he heard the news that DeadPool will make his  first appearance in X-men: Wolverine's Origin, he immediately sign up for the role, despite all the contract waiting for him. Although his portrait as DeadPool was fantastic, the character story were broken, unreal, the plot was idiotic, and does not follow any canon. Fan, along with Ryan himself went crazy and demand a stand alone movie for DeadPool after the release. Luckily, the DeadPool project start immediately as a respond from the Marvel Studio and Ryan, once again, cast the role of this Canadian killer-clown. But the project was suspended sue to the insufficient funding. In hope of finishing this project, Ryan himself pay for the making of the movie and now, it became a reality. Having Ryan as DeadPool was a brilliant choice, not only that he look exactly like Wade, and his love for DeadPool, but also his determination toward his fan service. This is a very effective way of using both pathos, as the fan can feel the emotions, the love from Ryan, and ethos as Ryan is also a famous actor who had brought DeadPool to life.
          One of the many thing I like about this trailer is the plot twist, which begin immediately right after the cancer joke finished. At (0:15), the screen became dark, haunted background music started playing, narration began with typical superhero clichés such as the scene where the CIA agent make a deal with Wade, saying that he will cure his cancer, and turn him into a superhero. Following that is Wade's girlfriend confronting him, and Wade asking her to be with him during the treatment. As one of the many audience, I myself shake in fear that this movie will, once again, not following the plot and the real characteristic of the main character by turning a funny, anti-superhero, into a more of a Batman kind. But the director surprised us, the merc with the mouth immediately bring up a joke at 0:37, saying "And please don't make the super suit green, or animated" This one is by far the best joke in the entire trailer since this is a reference to the movie Green Lantern, where the superhero was also casted by Ryan. No one ever expected Marvel to "burn" DC Studio that hard by stating one of the many disaster the studio had brought us, making the hero suit animated.
          Not surprisingly that this trailer remained one of the most anticipated trailer ever as it had shown the fan all the component that made up DeadPool. The director used of logos is brilliant in promising us with a hilarious, fourth-wall breaker Chimichangas lover. From all the jokes, which most are originated from the actual canon, to the action that only an undead characters such as DeadPool can pull off, this trailer had proved itself as one of the best trailer of all time, and had fan devoted themselves into seeing the movie, a real DeadPool for the very firs time.