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In a world where movie trailers and common phrases collide… one article describes the practice. There are certain conventions when creating movie trailers; these differ depending on whether the trailer is for comedy or for drama. Usually, you can tell which kind you're going to get depending on the first few voice-over lines of the trailer; if it starts with "In a World" or no voiceover whatsoever, you can expect drama, especially Speculative Fiction. However, if it begins with cheery music, it's going to be a comedy, even if the soundtrack turns sour as the narrator discusses the plot's primary conflict. In both cases, the voiceover is Always Male. Since their creation these archetypes have been increasingly played with and may even be leaning toward being discredited or even a Dead Horse Trope, as 21st century movie trailers usually don't have any narration at all, instead pulling from actual dialogue in the film if anything. The trailer for ''Comedian'' (yep, that's really Hal Douglas, the "East Coast In-A-World Guy") does a good job of showing how certain styles of trailer-talk are not always appropriate. See Wunza Plot for this kind of plot-pitching used for Television. Named for a line commonly attributed to "That Guy from the Movies", the late Don LaFontaine (the "West Coast In-A-World Guy"), who very likely single-handedly brought this trope into being. |
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It was also used for the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young documentary Deja Vu. | |
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Played straight (well, sort of) on Fillmore! when they have the man himself do the opening voice-over for every episode and every "chapter." | |
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Some TV spots for Notting Hill ripped off the gag by saying "If you see only one movie this year, go see the groovy British secret agent! But if you see two…". Obviously, it was infinitely more clever and funny when Austin Powers' marketing team thought it up. | |
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When Chuck kinda almost proposed to Sarah. | |
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Cheers: In "Cheers: The Motion Picture", Diane takes the gang's home movie of Woody's life in Boston and recuts it into an absurd art film called Manchild in Beantown. The first line of Diane's over-the-top narration is "In a world gone mad, where can a young man go? Where? Where? Tell me where?" | |
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A trailer for Brother Bear starring a moose where the moose and his friend narrated the trailer. It begin with, "If you only see one movie this year-" "Wait, hold on, if they only see one movie, wouldn't it be the movie they're watching right now?" And then a plea to stop watching the current movie and then watch their movie… or just watch two movies this year. | |
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A 2013 comedy starring Lake Bell, about a young lady seeking to follow her father's footsteps into the trailer voiceover business, is titled, naturally, In a World… | |
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Zadok in 1/0 does a Don LaFontaine impersonation in strip 818, complete with underlined text. | |
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5 Men and a Limo. | |
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The first chapter of The Superheroics of Haruhi Suzumiya starts out this way, with Izuku narrating the SOS Brigade's movie. It immediately gets a Lampshade Hanging as he says "Can't believe [Haruhi]'s making me open with that". | |
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Mexican comedian Adal Ramones makes fun of trailers in one of his monologues. | |
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Discussed in this video from Cinemassacre Video. He starts by saying that even though "In a World" is supposed to be a huge cliche, almost all the examples he could think of are parodies, and that he couldn't think of a single straight answer before asking for help. Even in the trailers where it does say this, it's very rarely at the beginning and usually appears somewhere in the middle with no emphasis. | |
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Cracked has a trailer of Every Academy Award Move Ever Here. | |
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In a tragically hard-to-find-online clip, the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "One False Movie" climaxes with the Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot opening of Bloo and Mac's Colon Cancer-patient film, which appears to be a trailer for itself. "In a world where chaos reigns like cats and dogs in a hailstorm of... passion, a retired cop must settle one last score. [Against Ninja.]" | |
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Supernatural. Parodied in the promo for "The French Mistake". | |
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All the movie ads in the commercial breaks while the Whateley Universe characters are watching "Tales of the MCO", including ads for Oliver Stone's "Foucault's Pendulum" and the Merchant-Ivory production of "Hulk 1809". | |
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King of the Hill, in the episode "Hank's Cowboy Movie". | |
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The "trailer" at the end of Kung Pow! Enter the Fist was just scenes cut from the film along with this kind of narration. | |
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Metalocalypse's Blood Ocean starts with this very line. It has something to do with Space Vikings. I KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!! |
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Well, it was only a matter of time before someone started making theater-style commercials for webcomics. Since the comic in question is The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, saying 'in a world where anything can happen' is rather an understatement. May be viewed here. | |
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Subtly invoked by the Australian trailer for The Proposition, which starts with a stark shot of the outback and Ray Winstone saying "Australia. What fresh hell is this?" | |
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The opening narration for Xena: Warrior Princess. | |
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Star Trek (2009): teaser, where you couldn't see much, until the last shot showed that it was the Enterprise. | |
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Parodied in Johnny Test. Susan and Mary build a machine that allows people to warp reality by beginning a sentence with "In A World..." and speaking into it. Things get way out of hand. | |
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Played mostly straight in the English dub of Burst Angel, where a movie trailer seen by some characters gets an "In a world of violence, one man got a second chance..." narration. | |
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Sonic Boom manages to spoof this as well in the second TV trailer. | |
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In The Holiday, Cameron Diaz's character Amanda works in Hollywood editing movie trailers, and even when she gets away on vacation a voice in her head (Hal Douglas!) sometimes reflexively narrates her emotional ups and downs using trailer-voiceover-speak, laden with this trope. The whole movie has numerous affectionate shout-outs to the film industry. | |
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Carmina Burana, Lux Aeterna or scratchy, tension-filled electronic music are common | |
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Home Movies incorporated this in Brendon's first movie ever shown on the show, Dark Side of the Law: "In a world gone mad, there stands one cop fighting against evil and injustice!". | |
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Deadpool, executing his enemies with his twin hammers, occasionally quips "In a world, where dipshits get killed with hammers...". | |
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Evoked by Liquid in The Last Days of FOXHOUND: "He's a man. A man... who is covered in bees." "In a world gone mad, only one man had the courage to cover himself in bees. These are his stories." | |
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American Dad!: Spoofed by a drunk Roger, complete with a mock dramatic voice. | |
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The Borderlands series. The moon dance trailer for "Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!" specifically was the ""Punctuated! For! Emphasis!" interspersed with kickass clips" type | |
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The trailer for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) was narrated by the Guide, as an entry in the Guide on movie trailers, spoken by Stephen Fry. It consisted of one continuous Lampshade Hanging and parody of science fiction action movie tropes. It can be found here. | |
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Played straight by John Avner's narration of Berserk, where every episode begins with Void's "In this world…". Also parodied in the Hilarious Outtakes. |
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Negativland once collaged a couple dozen snippets from various La Fontaine trailers for High Fantasy films. It's on track 6 of Moribund Music of the 70s. Listen to it here. | |
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A Gamestop ad for Mass Effect 3 had this style, to show off the Valkyrie rifle you get as a preorder bonus. At least until Shepard tells Garrus to cut the cheesy narration and help him shoot things. | |
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"from Milan to Minsk..." | |
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In The Orphan Master's Son, a novel about life in dystopian North Korea, a producer in the state film industry uses this exact phrase while telling an actress about her next project. | |
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Parodied on The Colbert Report in the intro to a segment on movies. "In a world... [Record Needle Scratch] until he met her!" | |
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| The Colbert Report | hasFeature |
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| In a World… / int_7c038c18 | type |
In a World… | |
| In a World… / int_7c038c18 | comment |
Phineas and Ferb: "The Chronicles of Meap" did this little send-up trailer as a tribute to the late Don LaFontaine: "One Man, In A Land, In A Time, In A World... All His Own." Then parodied by LaFontaine himself: "In a world...there, I said it. Happy?" |
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In a World… / int_7c038c18 | |
| In a World… / int_80942169 | type |
In a World… | |
| In a World… / int_80942169 | comment |
Parodied in Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide. | |
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In a World… / int_80942169 | |
| In a World… / int_81bc1811 | type |
In a World… | |
| In a World… / int_81bc1811 | comment |
"In a world covered by endless water..." | |
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| Mega Man Legends (Video Game) | hasFeature |
In a World… / int_81bc1811 | |
| In a World… / int_826ef177 | type |
In a World… | |
| In a World… / int_826ef177 | comment |
The Bionic Commando Rearmed soundtrack has an audio track called "One Man, One Bionic Arm," which is the audio track for the game and its premise as if it were a typical blockbuster film. | |
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In a World… / int_826ef177 | |
| In a World… / int_87527199 | type |
In a World… | |
| In a World… / int_87527199 | comment |
Like virtually every other Hollywood cliche, Team America: World Police (specifically, its trailer) satirizes this mercilessly. | |
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In a World… / int_87527199 | |
| In a World… / int_880cfa15 | type |
In a World… | |
| In a World… / int_880cfa15 | comment |
Played with in a commercial for Hogan's Heroes which was written by Stan Freberg. During a TV commercial where Freberg interviews star Bob Crane: | |
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| In a World… / int_924bb56e | type |
In a World… | |
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Lampshaded in Dollhouse. | |
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In a World… | |
| In a World… / int_927f559c | comment |
This piece of narration form Roommates (Here) which is also the current page quote for it: "Somewhere, there is a place where all stories are real and all dreams are truth..." but it also promptly subverts/parodies the trope "...This is not that place..." just to make it a double subversion at the end "...This is not quite that place, but it's close." | |
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In a World… | |
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The teaser trailer for SCOOB! begins with Scooby and Shaggy at a movie theater talking about making the film. When Shaggy says that they need a trailer, he has Scooby do "the trailer guy voice", which Scooby proceeds to do with gusto. | |
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| In a World… / int_a48c533e | type |
In a World… | |
| In a World… / int_a48c533e | comment |
This has since been condensed to simply 'This summer/fall/July/whathaveyou'; in particularly poisonous cases, this is followed several cuts later by an exhortation for the audience to PUNCH CRIME, or "Discover", or otherwise do something that the characters in the film will be doing (rather than, more sincerely, exhorting them to purchase a ticket and see their film) They may also be asked to go on an adventure "beyond imagination", or beyond something similar. This was perhaps a fair cop in Zardoz's advertising campaign (well, it was in keeping with the lunatic bombast of the film, at least), but when attributed to the The Mummy Trilogy films, it just looks desperate. | |
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In a World… / int_a48c533e | |
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In a World… | |
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The commercial for Cartoon Network's The Amazing World of Gumball seen here has one of its characters doing this over the trailer. | |
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| In a World… / int_b3704ffa | type |
In a World… | |
| In a World… / int_b3704ffa | comment |
A popular choice in films made since 2004 has been the track "Hello Zepp" from the Saw soundtrack. You'll know it when you hear it. | |
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| Saw | hasFeature |
In a World… / int_b3704ffa | |
| In a World… / int_b9b06d7e | type |
In a World… | |
| In a World… / int_b9b06d7e | comment |
The trailer for Borat was narrated by the main character himself. ("See my moviefilm. If it is no success, I will be execute!") | |
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In a World… / int_b9b06d7e | |
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In a World… | |
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Warhammer 40,000: In a world of Grim Darkness... there is only war | |
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| In a World… / int_bf74cf55 | type |
In a World… | |
| In a World… / int_bf74cf55 | comment |
Whiplash has this as one of its first jokes. A bunny starts with "IN A WORLD, WHERE A VOICE FROM THE HEAVENS TELLS YOU TO CUT LOOSE—", but he's promptly attacked by guards. | |
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| In a World… / int_c06c3e0d | type |
In a World… | |
| In a World… / int_c06c3e0d | comment |
LoadingReadyRun gives us [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv2WK-FoRjg Crapshot 559: The Hospital.'' "In a world where life and death hangs in the balance..." | |
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| In a World… / int_c2474b16 | type |
In a World… | |
| In a World… / int_c2474b16 | comment |
The "trailers" for The Way of the Metagamer 2: In Name Only. | |
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In a World… | |
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The trailer for Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Movie started out this way. It ends, "By the way, does anyone have a throat lozenge? This voice is killing me." | |
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| In a World… / int_c564dcf0 | type |
In a World… | |
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In Moving Pictures, the standard phrase is "Against The Backdrop Of A World Gone Mad!" At one point Soll is attempting to negotiate with a group of dwarfs who object to being stereotyped as miners ("But most dwarfs are miners!" "Yes, but we're not happy about it."), a troll who wants to play the leading man, and various other people nitpicking the plot, when someone asks him why all Mr Dibbler's pictures are set against the backdrop of a world gone mad. His response is "Because Mr Dibbler is a very observant person." | |
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| In a World… / int_c720f71e | type |
In a World… | |
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Go ahead and browse YouTube for recut trailers. People are familiar enough with this trope that they rearrange a movie's content to pitch it as the wrong genre. Some films, by merit of their quality lend themselves to this, such as the Narmalicious The Wicker Man (2006) becoming a comedy. Ten Things I Hate About Commandments being an example of said culture jamming. | |
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| YouTube (Website) | hasFeature |
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In a World… | |
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IN A WORLD GONE BAD... Text example, not to ruin your happiness from listening The Thing I Hate in the intro of Time to Kill. | |
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| In a World… / int_d9c602eb | type |
In a World… | |
| In a World… / int_d9c602eb | comment |
South Park episode, "The Biggest Douche in the Universe": While the boys are on a flight to Chef's parents' house to release Kenny's soul from Cartman's body, they are subjected to a handful of trailers for Rob Schneider movies, most modeled after roles he played in The Animal and The Hot Chick, and given similarly ridiculous titles such as ''Rob Schneider is...A STAPLER!" and "A CARROT!" One particularly ridiculous trailer starts out like this: The later episode "Stanley's Cup" takes it even further. Stan is forced to coach a Peewee hockey team to pay off a ticket, living out many Sports Movie tropes in the process. Meanwhile, the court clerk is following him around with a record player, narrating everything he does in the In A World voice. |
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In a World… | |
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Pac-Man: The Movie. | |
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Honest Trailers is a mix of this and Accentuate the Negative. The announcer voice is further spoofed when they added as The Stinger him saying user-suggested things such as "glockenspiel" and "Pikachu, I choose you". | |
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In a World… / int_e0f3d2b6 | |
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In a World… | |
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Homestar Runner spoofed this repeatedly in the Strong Bad Email narrator, where Strong Bad went around narrating the everyday lives of his friends and neighbors as if they were movie trailers: an argument between Bubs and Coach Z over napkins becomes a trailer for a post-apocalyptic action film, a tiff between Marzipan and Homestar over a goofy novelty chef's hat becomes a trailer for a romantic dramedy, the Poopsmith shoveling... whatsit becomes a trailer for a snooty French art film, and Strong Mad and The Cheat playing Battleship becomes a trailer for a buddy comedy. Butt-Monkey Strong Sad is "fortunate" enough to get two trailers: one for a comedy where he gets hit in the face with an octopus, and one for a horror movie where he gets hit in the face with a dead Canada goose. | |
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In a World… | |
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Some of Thomas Sanders' early Vines were based on using this for humor. | |
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In a World… | |
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The Onion Knight's story path in Dissidia Final Fantasy begins with a dramatic narration that includes the phrase "In a world that was slowly decaying around them..." | |
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In a World… | |
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This is lampshaded in an issue of Fantastic Four, where Ben and Sue go to the movies and are ready to count all the "In A World"s they hear when the Monster of the Week attacks them. | |
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In a World… | |
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In the Rated "A" for Awesome episode "Voice of Lars" Lars gains a deep movie trailer voice and finds he can control people with it. He words all his commands this way. | |
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In a World… | |
| In a World… / int_f0a86c12 | comment |
In How I Met Your Mother when Lily was forced to paint Barney nude. He imagined it would begin with "In a world that needed a hero..." | |
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"In a land of myth, and a time of magic, the destiny of a great kingdom rests on the shoulders of a young boy. His name... Merlin." ("Young man" as of Season 4.) | |
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| In a World… / int_fb32ec22 | type |
In a World… | |
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Some dramatic display of the date, especially when the date is something like 6/6/2006. | |
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