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Writer's Block: Batter up!
Mar. 10th, 2011 08:53 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
This is a terrible question to ask someone who hasn't had her pancakes yet (it was a funeral on Tuesday) and has just been to the dentist to have a filling.
It used to be jam, but for dental reasons, it has changed to lemon and sugar.
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30 Days of Film Meme (no, I hadn't forgotten you) - Day 26 - Favourite film poster
Changing the question around - why are UK film posters never as good as the foreign ones?
Firstly, I'm well aware that the posters I use as the examples of 'foreign' movie posters were available in the UK, but they were not the ones mainly used to sell it in magazines or as cinema billboards, or at least they weren't in my area.
A more obvious example first:
( The Fifth Element poster 1 )
versus
( The Fifth Element poster 2 )
The top one is truly terrible. It's all 'floating heads of doom' and makes The Fifth Element look like a low-budget sci-fi actioneer.
The second one doesn't give you any information about the characters, but it shows you the world. It's more interesting and engaging.
A more subtle example comes in these two posters for Gladiator (btw, if you don't like Gladiator, you may wish to skip days 29 and 30).
( Gladiator poster 1 )
( Gladiator poster 2 )
Now don't get me wrong, the first one is not bad. I love the lighting, particularly. But the second one, oh the colours, and oh Maximus, who really only wants to get home to his wife. It's so much more like the film. I mean, I get why they used the other one - if you want a big audience, the suggestion of epic violence is normally the way to go - but still.
For a funnier take (providing you find Cracked funny [the management bears no responsibility for Cracked being deeply annoying half the time and wonderfully amusing the other half]) on the whole thing, you may wish to read this list - http://www.cracked.com/article_16990_lost-in-translation-20-baffling-foreign-movie-posters.html
( The Other Days )
This is a terrible question to ask someone who hasn't had her pancakes yet (it was a funeral on Tuesday) and has just been to the dentist to have a filling.
It used to be jam, but for dental reasons, it has changed to lemon and sugar.
~~~~
30 Days of Film Meme (no, I hadn't forgotten you) - Day 26 - Favourite film poster
Changing the question around - why are UK film posters never as good as the foreign ones?
Firstly, I'm well aware that the posters I use as the examples of 'foreign' movie posters were available in the UK, but they were not the ones mainly used to sell it in magazines or as cinema billboards, or at least they weren't in my area.
A more obvious example first:
( The Fifth Element poster 1 )
versus
( The Fifth Element poster 2 )
The top one is truly terrible. It's all 'floating heads of doom' and makes The Fifth Element look like a low-budget sci-fi actioneer.
The second one doesn't give you any information about the characters, but it shows you the world. It's more interesting and engaging.
A more subtle example comes in these two posters for Gladiator (btw, if you don't like Gladiator, you may wish to skip days 29 and 30).
( Gladiator poster 1 )
( Gladiator poster 2 )
Now don't get me wrong, the first one is not bad. I love the lighting, particularly. But the second one, oh the colours, and oh Maximus, who really only wants to get home to his wife. It's so much more like the film. I mean, I get why they used the other one - if you want a big audience, the suggestion of epic violence is normally the way to go - but still.
For a funnier take (providing you find Cracked funny [the management bears no responsibility for Cracked being deeply annoying half the time and wonderfully amusing the other half]) on the whole thing, you may wish to read this list - http://www.cracked.com/article_16990_lost-in-translation-20-baffling-foreign-movie-posters.html
( The Other Days )
