The New Wicked Trailer

 A new trailer for the first half of a two-part musical epic has dropped, and I am here to talk about it once again, the movie comes out around Thanksgiving and lasts almost four minutes long, what did I think? Well, let's defy gravity and dive into it shall we?

The trailer this time was one step forward and two steps back, now that it is done trying to hide the fact it is a musical, we got two songs and what seemed like a couple dance numbers. Most of the trailer for this musical movie consisted of talking and showing big scenic and dramatic shots and building up the story. We got a few looks into "Popular" and then another peek at "Defying Gravity" maybe some shots of "What Is This Feeling?" or "I'm Not That Girl" but only in visual not in song, the former two being the only ones displayed in the trailer we were presented today in a musical format.

I will say it feels like this trailer showed the entire plot of the first movie, it showed the beginning, some plot, and what seems to be dire straights. Revealing the villain's hands already and their identities, showing the characters growing close and apart, all while one song played. If any more trailers come I feel like we will have seen even more of the film. The only thing that seems held close to their chest is the music and performances, showing two solo performances and no group numbers. 

That interests me as the director's previous musical film "In The Heights" when it was given a trailer seemed to show the big group aspect and save the duets and solo far for the movie, which I find interesting just to see the differences. Mostly plot and dialogue were shown and now the stage was set, with only small morsels of "Defying Gravity" and "Popular" that felt like blink-and-you-miss-it showings. I wish more of the musical aspect was shown instead of showing only about ten seconds and trying to focus on being this big and grand, epic story. 

This trailer has me still cautiously optimistic, it shows promise and the visuals are very striking, it just seems that it is trying to be something more than a musical, and trying to have these big, emotional, epic moments. The only problem is a big epic story with emotional moments already exists, it's called the stage version.