trailer analysis

The Maya Cosmic Prophecy: From Sensation to Sensibility

Maya Scholars, in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador and North America, have been watching with amusement and dismay as self-styled experts proclaim that ancient Maya prophets foretold an earth-shattering happening to occur December 21, 2012. This predicted phenomenon gets described in contradictory but often cataclysmic fashion--as an ecological collapse, a sunspot storm, a rare cosmic conjunction of the earth, sun, and the galactic center, a new and awesome stage of our evolution, and even a sudden reversal of the Earth's magnetic field which will erase all our computer drives. One even predicts the earth's initiation into a Galactic Federation, whose elders have been accelerating our evolution with a "galactic beam" for the last 5000 years. In sum, the world as we know it will suddenly come to a screeching halt.

These predictions are alleged to be prophecies by so-called "Ancient Mayans" whose "astronomically precise" calendar supposedly terminates on that date. According to such accounts, these mysterious Maya geniuses appeared suddenly, built an extraordinary civilization, designed in it clues for us, and then suddenly, inexplicably, vanished, as if they had completed their terrestrial mission. These same experts claim special credibility for the Maya prophecies by asserting that these historic sages, with their possible extraterrestrial origins, had tapped into an astonishing esoteric wisdom.

2012 is a disaster movie about the end of the world. it is based on a Mayan Cosmic Prophecy. the trailer starts with a non- diagetic eary sound which gets louder through the trailer. it then goes on to pose vague statements which make us try and "fill in the dots" ( a narrative enigma- Levi Strauss) before the end of the trailer it for example
 "This day would come". they also use a news broadcast that rus through some of the clip explaining the fundamentals of the story arc. this part of the trailer is ended by the worlds "what are the odds" this is called dramatic irony. the second half of the trailer is showing the havoc and death caused by the disaster. they emphasise this by putting iconic buildings being destroyed i.e the whitehouse.