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A new trailer has been released for the Steven Spielberg-directed cold war thriller Bridge of Spies, starring Tom Hanks and based on the Gary Powers U-2 spy plane crisis in 1960 – it’s not the first, being a UK-aimed one, but close inspection reveals some interesting differences in the way the film is being marketed in the US and UK. A new trailer has been released for the Steven Spielberg-directed cold war thriller Bridge of Spies, starring Tom Hanks and based on the Gary Powers U-2 spy plane crisis in 1960. It’s not the first, being a UK-aimed one, but close inspection reveals some interesting differences in the way the film is being marketed in the US and UK.
The general nature of the film is clear and similar in both: Spielberg has slathered the story – set largely in grim American CIA offices and even grimmer communist East Berlin – with “serious” steely greys and icy blues. Hanks, playing American lawyer James Donovan, is characterised by another of his seemingly-out-of-his-depth everyman roles: Donovan is sent to negotiate with the Russians to sort out a spy swap, to get Powers back. The general nature of the film is clear and similar in both: Spielberg has slathered the story – set largely in grim US CIA offices and even grimmer communist East Berlin – with “serious” steely greys and icy blues. Hanks, playing American lawyer James Donovan, is characterised by another of his seemingly out-of-his-depth everyman roles: Donovan is sent to negotiate with the Russians to sort out a spy swap, to get Powers back.
So far, so straightforward. But there is a clear difference in structure: the UK trailer sets up a more immediately complex plotline by dwelling on Donovan’s pre-Powers case, defending a Russian spy played by Mark Rylance, which naturally segues on to the difficulties his family faces in the anti-communist atmosphere of the Eisenhower era. This acts as a prologue to the main event: Donovan’s trip to East Germany under the diplomatic radar. This is partly explained by the clear advantage of giving Rylance a bit more trailer time (a strong pull for UK audiences), but it also emphasises a layered approach to the drama that unfolds. No doubt the trailer-makers assume that Brits, being sophisticated Europeans, can handle it. So far, so straightforward. But there is a clear difference in structure: the UK trailer sets up a more immediately complex plotline by dwelling on Donovan’s pre-Powers case, defending a Russian spy played by Mark Rylance, which naturally segues on to the difficulties his family faces in the anti-communist atmosphere of the Eisenhower era. This acts as a prologue to the main event: Donovan’s trip to East Germany under the diplomatic radar. This is partly explained by the clear advantage of giving Rylance a bit more trailer time (a strong pull for UK audiences), but it also emphasises a layered approach to the drama that unfolds. No doubt the trailer makers assume that Brits, being sophisticated Europeans, can handle it.
The US trailer, on the other hand, irons out these wrinkles by announcing in its first frames that Donovan been “selected for a mission”, thereby funnelling all the subsequent ramifications through a single streamlined thriller narrative. Most of the same snippets are used, but arranged to illustrate the mechanism of the film’s central act of negotiation - their guy for one of ours.
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There’s also quite a lot more about the “security of your country”, “violating the constitution”, “battle for civilisation”, “what makes us Americans” – all designed, clearly, to play on specifically American concerns, that are perhaps less urgent on the UK side of the pond. On the other hand, the UK trailer is more interested in pointing up what things are like behind the iron curtain. The US trailer, on the other hand, irons out these wrinkles by announcing in its first frames that Donovan been “selected for a mission”, thereby funnelling all the subsequent ramifications through a single streamlined thriller narrative. Most of the same snippets are used, but arranged to illustrate the mechanism of the film’s central act of negotiation – their guy for one of ours.
There is also quite a lot about the “security of your country”, “violating the constitution”, “battle for civilisation”, “what makes us Americans” – all designed, clearly, to play on specifically American concerns, that are perhaps less urgent on the UK side of the pond. On the other hand, the UK trailer is more interested in pointing up what things are like behind the iron curtain.
Bridge of Spies is due for release on 16 October in the US, 22 October in Australia, and 6 November in the UK.Bridge of Spies is due for release on 16 October in the US, 22 October in Australia, and 6 November in the UK.