Oliver Stone's Heaven and Earth, opening December 25, has all the earmarks of an epic movie. Even its trailer is epic. In three minutes-plus (twice the usual length), the clip invokes poetic images of war and peace in telling the true story of Le Ly Hayslip (Hiep Thi Le), a Vietnamese woman whose odyssey takes her from pastoral rice fields to 1970s America. And, bucking the current trend of impressionistic trailers, this one boasts a beginning, middle, and end. ''We wanted audiences to take the journey,'' says Joel Wayne, Warner Bros. executive VP of creative advertising projects, who hopes the trailer's narrative arc will convey the film's scope and its emotional sweep. In any event, audiences should be able to discern its story without moving heaven and earth.
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