"Given the source material, and the multiple straight-faced attempts to make it work as a movie over the last few decades, there was a base assumption that this would be another self-serious attempt to make a dramatic action movie. When it was clearly not that, something that looked both fun and even funny, the world reacted with a collective "huh?" But to solve the puzzle, there's one important piece that people missed: the director."
"Kitao Sakurai is the director of 62 episodes of The Eric Andre Show. If that doesn't mean anything to you, this should help: And now we're all on the same page. I think it's really worth watching the Street Fighter movie trailer again, following the above. I was pretty sure that was Eric Andre dancing behind the news desk as Don Sauvage for a split-second there the first time I watched. And yup, it is! And it all starts to make so much more sense."
The Game Awards premiered the first trailer for next year's Street Fighter movie and audiences reacted with surprise. Prior cinematic attempts and the source material led to expectations of a self-serious dramatic action film. The trailer instead presented something fun and funny, provoking a collective double-take. The crucial context is that Kitao Sakurai, who directed 62 episodes of The Eric Andre Show, directed the film. Recognition of Eric Andre in a brief cameo and widespread social media memes reshaped interpretation of the trailer, turning prior pessimism into a realization that the tone was intentionally deranged and comedic.
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