3. The Wolf Of Wall Street
Is it the music? Is it the snappy dialogue? Is it Leonardo Dicaprio's face being smashed oh-so-seductively by a woman's high heel that could have stepped on or in who-knows-what out there? The trailer for The Wolf of Wall Street looks like the biggest party since, well, Leo's last party, in his trailers for The Great Gatsby. The cocky dialogue of a success story, exemplified in the trailer's opening lines, hints to viewers the same kind of hit movie as The Social Network. The trailer also comes with an invaluable sense of comfort and reliability for audiences towards this movie, which ticket-selling familiarity is clearly a golden Hollywood tool evidenced by the outpours of sequels taking over theaters. In The Wolf of Wall Street, that familiarity comes from the trailer parading that director Martin Scorsese's next big work will be with Leo again, who is already notorious at Scorsese's leading man of choice ever since De Niro. Of course, the feeling may be one of comfort or groaning dread, depending on how you feel about Scorsese's much-acclaimed The Departed and Shutter Island that Leo starred in. Given audiences' clear excitement at seeing Leo play the role of a pretentious, flamboyant gentleman based on his recent hit performances in Django Unchained and The Great Gatsby, perhaps the only thing that could make this trailer more satisfying is if the blonde were Kate Winslet.