{"id":29113,"date":"2015-06-20T11:53:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T16:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=29113"},"modified":"2015-06-20T11:53:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T16:53:24","slug":"the-new-peanuts-movie-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=29113","title":{"rendered":"The New Peanuts Movie Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week the new trailer for November&#8217;s <i>Peanuts<\/i> trailer was released:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fVR4E6Q6u5g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In November, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=28707\">I wrote about the first trailer<\/a>, and in the days since the new trailer was released <a href=\"http:\/\/henchman4hire.com\/2015\/06\/17\/that-animated-peanuts-movie-still-doesnt-look-half-bad\/\">I&#8217;ve left a few comments here and there<\/a>.  Why don&#8217;t I share my thoughts on the new trailer here?<\/p>\n<p>My read on the trailer is that this is an origin story of sorts &#8212; the origin of Charlie Brown&#8217;s unrequited crush on the Little Red-Haired Girl.  A new girl moves into Charlie Brown&#8217;s neighborhood, she&#8217;s seen a few times in shadows or at a distance in the trailer, no matter what he does Charlie Brown can&#8217;t work up the nerve to talk to her, she has red hair.  Seems straightforward to me.<\/p>\n<p>Eagle-eyed viewers will note that the new neighbor, what little of her we see, does not resemble Heather from the animated specials.  The one time that the Little Red-Haired Girl appears on panel (a storyline in late May 1998 when Snoopy was the &#8220;F. Scott Fitzgerald Hero&#8221;), she resembles Lucy rather than Heather.  There is a vague Lucy resemblance to the new neighbor in this.  (Of course, I could be imagining that because that&#8217;s what I want to see&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>There are also elements that are reminiscent of <i>A Boy Named Charlie Brown<\/i> &mdash; Charlie Brown, who&#8217;s not good at anything, does something to suddenly become popular.  (Inevitably, this will blow up in his face and his friends will treat him like a loser, even though he got further in whatever it was than any of his friends did.  His friends are fickle assholes.)<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of moments in the trailer that I think are there to reassure older fans, like myself, that this is the <i>Peanuts<\/i> we remember.  There&#8217;s a cute sequence that recreates some moments from the animated specials, and then there&#8217;s a CGI recreation of the ice skating from <i>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/i>.  No sign of 3 and 4 doing their head-bopping dance, though we do see Shermy (also known as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/celebritology\/post\/shermy-in-a-charlie-brown-christmas-a-tribute-to-an-unsung-holiday-pop-culture-hero\/2011\/12\/05\/gIQAlMe2WO_blog.html\">Taller Linus<\/a> among fans) several times.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few moments that irritate the purist in me.  Shermy&#8217;s presence alongside Peppermint Patty and Franklin is ahistorical (Shermy disappeared from Charles Schulz&#8217;s strip about the same time they were introduced).  We also see that Peppermint Patty, Marcie, and Franklin apparently attend Charlie Brown&#8217;s school (they didn&#8217;t &mdash; they were from the other side of town and attended a different school), and Linus appears to be in the same class as Charlie Brown (he wasn&#8217;t &mdash; he was a year or two behind Charlie Brown).<\/p>\n<p>However, the general <i>feeling<\/i> of the trailer is so right &mdash; even with The Who&#8217;s &#8220;Baba O&#8217;Riley&#8221; as the trailer&#8217;s soundtrack &mdash; that I can overlook those irritants.  And they wouldn&#8217;t have kept me from seeing the film anyway. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The <i>Washington Post<\/i> had an article on the trailer that pointed out ten Easter Eggs that, honestly, I didn&#8217;t catch.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wonderful article in the Washington Post on 10 lovely touches in the new Peanuts Movie trailer <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/6wnCa4X7JD\">http:\/\/t.co\/6wnCa4X7JD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Allyn Gibson (@allyngibson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allyngibson\/status\/610961661567107072\">June 17, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><i>The Peanuts Movie<\/i> will be out on November 6th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the new trailer for November&#8217;s Peanuts trailer was released: In November, I wrote about the first trailer, and in the days since the new trailer was released I&#8217;ve left a few comments here and there. Why don&#8217;t I share my thoughts on the new trailer here? My read on the trailer is that<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=29113\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The New Peanuts Movie Trailer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[61,62,234,4079,4099,4100],"class_list":["post-29113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-media","tag-charles-schulz","tag-charlie-brown","tag-linus-van-pelt","tag-lucy-van-pelt","tag-peanuts","tag-snoopy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}