With pasage of time I also connected that antonym to spoilers in the wantedness sense is “teasers”. Trailers are enitely made by disclosing information that is intended to sell/enchance the experience. Notably it isn’t even that hard to make a trailer entirely out of footage that appears in the film (in some sense “accurate”) that is highly misleading.
Towards the “puzzle element” a trailer conveoying what the movie is about can make a viewer understand why they would want it in their life. However a too throught trailer would leave no reason to watch the actual film.
For the “intended experience” factor, movies often have “official” trailers and there the art team has the chance to set up a different set of expectations. But there is expectation that one should not need to watch the trailers in order to start watching the movie. So most movies work for atleast 2 sets of “baseline knowledge”. Some movies even exhibit scenes where they subvert the expectations set up by the trailers, a kind of nod to “trailers always lie” that indeed the trailer did lie.
Even if one were of the opinion that film selection process would be enhanced if every movie came with a representative but short trailer it is clear that a trailer can be made wrong. With trailers specifically the failure to sell the experience can be different from making the experience worse. So atleast one aspects of spoilers is that they “antitease”, make it less pressing to engage with the work in question.
With pasage of time I also connected that antonym to spoilers in the wantedness sense is “teasers”. Trailers are enitely made by disclosing information that is intended to sell/enchance the experience. Notably it isn’t even that hard to make a trailer entirely out of footage that appears in the film (in some sense “accurate”) that is highly misleading.
Towards the “puzzle element” a trailer conveoying what the movie is about can make a viewer understand why they would want it in their life. However a too throught trailer would leave no reason to watch the actual film.
For the “intended experience” factor, movies often have “official” trailers and there the art team has the chance to set up a different set of expectations. But there is expectation that one should not need to watch the trailers in order to start watching the movie. So most movies work for atleast 2 sets of “baseline knowledge”. Some movies even exhibit scenes where they subvert the expectations set up by the trailers, a kind of nod to “trailers always lie” that indeed the trailer did lie.
Even if one were of the opinion that film selection process would be enhanced if every movie came with a representative but short trailer it is clear that a trailer can be made wrong. With trailers specifically the failure to sell the experience can be different from making the experience worse. So atleast one aspects of spoilers is that they “antitease”, make it less pressing to engage with the work in question.