Now I know I’ve already done a blog post on Suicide Squad as an upcoming movie, but I just had to do a quick one about the new trailer for it that was recently just released, for the only reason that it is absolutely brilliant! Released around the same time was the awesome and very creative new poster with all the members of the Squad represented as skulls, which I thought was pretty cool.
The trailer, first off, is played to the tune of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, possibly one of the greatest and most well known songs in existence, and I couldn’t think of a better song for it! The music fits brilliantly with the idea of the film being crazy but fun, and the whole thing has been edited to perfection with the actions of the characters matching the music; my personal favourite has to be when Headshot (Will Smith) loads and cocks a rifle to the beat of the music.
The trailer also introduces the characters more and their abilities, or problems in some cases, and really sets up the Suicide Squad. We are shown that Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney) is a very angry person who is clearly not happy at being locked up, and that Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) is just plum insane, with a load of problems that make it understandable why she falls in love with the Joker. We are also given a better look at Jared Leto’s Joker, probably the most anticipated character of the whole movie, and one that we only got a glimpse of at the end of the first look trailer.
All in all I was already really looking forward to this film but this trailer has made me want to see it even more!
Here is the first look trailer, a slightly more sinister one, but still great even without a killer song:
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