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Dear Edwina,
Hey, where have I seen Ninja Assassins before? Oh, yeah, Matrix Reloaded. Both from Joel Silver’s go-to agency. Would you consider this a shallow well?
Signed, Unsigned
We assume our reader is referring to the black on white
imagery and the face-saving cropping of the figures. Exhibits A and B are seen
below: Click on image to enlarge.
If you’re like us, you know there is no greater impediment to the creation of key art than having to include those pesky actors in your image. So imagine the fit of petulance we experienced when one of our readers sent us these links to Olly Moss's Poster Remakes and to TCM’s summer movie marathon.
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Click on image to enlarge.
Dear Edwina,
Despite this horrendous year, I still have love for this industry. After 10 years in this business, I enjoy the all of the good and tolerate the bad.
There has been so much negativity and bashing on the blog recently - might I suggest a refreshing topic, one that might remind most of us why we got into this field in the first place:
"What is one of your favorite posters and
why?"
Signed, It Was All A Dream
Dear It Was, We are impressed that your career choice still gives you
such a warm and fuzzy feeling, while so many of our readers' emotions run more to the tepid and
blurry. Nonetheless, we will throw your challenge out to the wolves. We ask readers to be sure to submit the answer to the "Why?" question in as poncy a manner as one can muster, like this: Guarding Tess. Why? Because of its Rockwellesque presentment of a meticulously staged narrative intrigue. Click on image to enlarge.
If you're like us, you want your visual metaphors straight up, not mixed. So, despite getting déjà vu all over again, we greatly appreciate The Refinery's new Mad Men key art.
Be sure to click here to watch a video of the photo shoot with Frank Ockenfels.
We hear that certain cable television print AE mentioned in our July 17th post has joined up with her CD and settled in at an agency on Cahuenga Blvd. West, along with as many as twenty other stafflings.
We could be wrong about the destination and the number of stafflings (unfortunately, our sources are as mendacious as we are) but we are certain about their departure from Wilshire Blvd. Did we say departure? We meant to say exodus.
Now these are rip-offs I can live with. I wonder why they didn't recreate I CAN DO BAD ALL BY MYSELF...I mean... STRAW DOGS... I mean SHATTERED GLASS...
Look! It's 21 movie posters reconfigured with Legos! If your like us, your astonishment lies not in how well or how poorly they were done, but that they were done at all.
Dear Edwina,
Why is it that if you don’t have children your weekends are “available to work” but if you have children then you “have other commitments”? Is this just our industry, or is it the way of the world?
We could be wrong, but we believe that the art director on Butterfly Effect was the first to wrap the billing around the perimeter of the poster in what may have been the biggest breakthrough in one-sheet design since that first big head floated up in the sky.
If you’re like us, you never know whose what is going to end up where these days. We hear that a certain cable television print AE has decamped for another agency.
We wonder which stafflings will follow in her wake?
One of our readers sent us this reminder that Fox's healthcare provider likes to give the finger, too. Another example of the fine art of visual double entendre from the folks who brought you this.
"Life's headiest drive is not Love's orgasm or Hate's dagger, but one man's need to change another man's copy."
-- Hugh Leonard
Kate Ward at EW.com (that's pronounced, "ewwwww!!! dot com") seems to have a problem making a distinction between a headline and tag line.
As always, the best part is the comments, like this one: "It's a tagline, Kate. Get over it and move on with your life already."
