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.
"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."
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