Open Your Eyes – Vanilla Sky Comparison

TRAILER NOTES
'Open your eyes' is described as a thriller, disturbing, mind bending where as 'Vanilla sky' doesn't describe the type of film in the trailer at all.

'Open your eyes' compares it self to be inspired by 'The matrix', 'Total recall' and 'The game', focusing more on telling the audience and describing to the audience the 'theme', the 'genre' and the unusual twists and turns that take place in the film without revealing them, so the audience know that there are twists and turns in the film. 'Vanilla sky' doesn't do this, it focuses more on getting the audience to know the characters and then break that bond between the audience and the characters by introducing a twist, but the twist isn't 'confirmed' its confusing and makes the audience question what's going on drawing more attention to the trailer that the 'Open your eyes' trailer.

Both trailers talk about dreams and reality in their own ways, again to help pursue the genre and style of the film.

'Open your eyes' focuses more on the story, its theme and genre, where as 'Vanilla sky' focuses more on 'selling' the film with more mini-cliffhangers, boasting about cast and director.

'Open your eyes' also tries to sell its as well but not as much as 'Vanilla sky' by saying comparisons to other films and also slightly boasts cast as well.

'Vanilla sky' starts with the words 'open your eyes' immediately, I think this is to inform people that it is a film that is a remake of 'Open your eyes'.

PTO
In 'Vanilla sky' at the start of the trailer it asks a question (to the audience) making the audience think about the answer with 'what's going to happen', 'what's this about' etc, to get people interested in watching the trailer of the film.

In 'Vanilla sky' the words on screen are 'telling' the audience what to think to get the audience in the 'zone' to be in the correct state of mind to be engaged into the trailer. In 'Open your eyes' this doesn't happen, instead a narrator is talking and...