David Pogue, the personal-technology columnist for the New York Times, is taking Hollywood studios to task for putting content in their movie trailers that doesn’t actually appear in their movies. On Thursday, Pogue wrote a post in his blog on the Times’ website blasting the trailer for ‘National Treasure: Book of Secrets‘ for containing shots and scenes which did not make the film and depicting scenes completely out of context. He gave several examples, including but not limited to:
- The trailer showing shots of Egyptian landmarks, though none of the movie takes place in Egypt;
- A shot flying over Mount Rushmorein the trailer which does not appear in the film;
- Shots of the movie’s star, Nicolas Cage, at the Lincoln Memorial shown in the trailer do not wind up in the film;
- The trailer showing a character portraying the President of the United States dramatically telling Cage he is on the N.S.A., C.I.A. and F.B.I.’s most wanted list, but the scene does not exist in the finished movie.
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