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“The filmmakers behind Disney's upcoming fantasy film Bridge to Terabithia disavowed any connection with the movie's ad campaign, which they told SCI FI Wire was deliberately misleading. The ads show a boy and girl entering a fantasy world; the scene actually takes place at the end of the movie……"We don't really think that it's an appropriate way of selling the movie, but they're convinced that that's the way to get kids interested, and hopefully they will be positively surprised. If they are anticipating a Harry Potter movie, then we are in trouble. It is not a Harry Potter kind of a movie." ” Mike Szymanski, “Terabithia Ads Mislead?”,http://www.scifi.com, 12:00 AM, 07-FEBRUARY-07. I think the main assumption that this context rely on is that why the trailer is in discord with movie is because the film company is trying to convince audiences, who have not read the book, this is a magical movie like Harry Potter which is about magical world nearly have nothing related with this movie, to lure them to buy tickets watching movie.At first I think the trailer is making non-sense but after reading the comment I realize why film company trying to do this because even though only fantasy creatures or magical world was introduced in the ads but those things are the reflection of the real life and film makers want to attract people to watch the movie and then find out the connection between those two things. After watching the movie, audiences will realize that this is not a magical type movie but a movie about real life. Actually I have another question that why Jesse have four sisters and no brothers? “Jess is a young man besieged by females (four sisters), and when he is forced to suffer such indignities as wearing hand-me-down pink-striped sneakers to school, the only support he gets from his stern father (Robert Patrick) is a barky order to do his chores.” By Ann Hornaday, 'Bridge': Crossing Into The Heart of Childhood, http://www.washingtonpost.com, Friday, February 16, 2007. Because Jesse has four sisters and no brothers, and also two of them are older than him. So when his mother pass him sneakers that he has no choice but only girl`s type because he has no elder brothers can pass him or younger brothers can share with him. Imagine if Jesse`s elder brother give him his shoes, may be Jesse will wear those sneakers directly instead of complaining. This phenomenon highlight the financial problem and leave the hint that Jesse will be laughed by classmates in school.