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Last night, at a preview screening of Death Sentence<\/a><\/i>, I saw two trailers in a row that made significant use of sacred music \u2014 and all in the service of selling hyperviolent action movies.<\/span><\/p>\n

First, there was what I presume is the green-band trailer for Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem<\/a><\/i>. (Trailers don\u2019t have green bands or red bands in Canada.) It is a lot like the red-band trailer<\/a>, but with some of the gorier bits cut out \u2014 and towards the end, the Christmas carol \u2018Silent Night\u2019 plays over the images of stabbing and shooting and slashing and so on and so forth, while title cards tell us that, this Christmas, \u201cthere will be no peace on Earth.\u201d Hmmm.<\/p>\n

Curiously, I have not yet been able to find this trailer online.<\/p>\n

Second, there was the trailer for the adaptation of the computer game Hitman<\/a><\/i>, which makes use of \u2018Ave Maria\u2019. The tune sort of fits, since the title character apparently has ties to some sort of breakaway faction of the Eastern Orthodox Church, but it sort of doesn\u2019t \u2014 partly because it comes out of the western musical tradition, and no doubt for a host of other reasons, too.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZKyqDo329bs<\/a>
Click here<\/a> if the video file above doesn\u2019t play properly.<\/p>\n

Both of these films are being distributed by 20th Century Fox, the studio that, on the one hand, put \u201cJohn 6:27\u201d on some of the posters<\/a> for Live Free or Die Hard<\/a><\/i> earlier this summer, and, on the other hand, has had mixed success with its Fox Faith<\/a> brand.<\/p>\n

Make of all that what you will.<\/p>\n

OCT 3 UPDATE: It took over a month, but the Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem<\/i> trailer is now finally online at IGN.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"