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Foggy Mountain Ad Breakdowns

If you’re like us, you didn’t know nothing about nothing until you discovered Wikipedia on the Internets. We didn’t even know our fellow key artists were ripping off some 19th century German romantic (pardon the oxymoron) painter until one of readers sent us this article on Caspar David Friedrich’s "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog"

Here Are Some Things

Dear Edwina, 

The "Here Are Some Things Poster" is very cleverly used for Harmony Korine's "Spring Breakers," but Vince Vieluf's "Order Of Chaos" got their first several years ago.

Either way, it's better than a bunch of airbrushed faces.

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Makin' Copies!

The Blind Leading The Blind

Dear Edwina, 

Apparently vertical blinds are making a come back in key art.

This copy cat of the international poster for Shadow Dancer was clearly taken from Lionsgate's Hard Candy... wouldn't you agree?

Signed, Just Thought I'd Share

Dear Share,

It appears so. Now the questions remains: from whom did Lionsgate steal the idea?

Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You, Ask Who Cut The Cheese

Our thanks to the classy reader who dealt this...

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The Old "Negative-Space-Forms-Our-Icon" Key Art Concept

The poo is flying in Pooville today: we recieved this Monkey See Monkey Do contender from four different sources:

And here is a link to the Yahoo! Movies exposé that lays bare the shocking similarities between these two posters.

Think Global, Steal Local

One might assume that international posters are beyond our jurisdiction and art directors can therefore misappropriate designs without being subject to chastisement; but the fact is that many of these foreign language one-sheets are perpetrated right here in El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles.

Don’t count on us looking the other way just because the tag line is written in total gibberish.

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Nursing A Grudge

Sent in by an anonymous donor. The photo on the right is Dusan Reljin’s portrait of Italian fashion designer Riccardo Tisci 

One Of These Is Not Like The Others

Come To Think Of It, All Three Of These Is Not Like The Others

From Our Fall Collection Of Monkey See, Monkey Do Twin Sets

This pair was sent in by a reader who points out that there must have been a sale on baby bjorns:

And this from a reader in Iceland who complains of seeing double:

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Out Standing In Their Field

If You’ve Seen One Masked Avenger Looming On A Rooftop, You’ve Seen ‘Em All

This manly Monkey See, Monkey Do entry was sent in by not one but two of our readers.

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Like The Title Isn't Pornographic Enough

Jism 2 posters have reportedly been removed in Mumbai, India following accusations of obscenity.

Mahesh Bhatt, the film’s writer and producer, said: “Censoring images created by the human mind has been going on since the dark ages."

Bhatt neglected to mention that the human mind that created the image copied it from a poster for a Felix Bendish fashion show.

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But I Could Have Told You, Vincent, This World Was Never Meant For Two As Beautiful As You

Thanks to an alert reader who sent in these subtly similar posters.

Ask Not Who Flung Poo, Ask Where We're Ordering Lunch From Today

If you haven’t already, please be sure to catch Edwina Trout in a state of fully-inflated pomposity in an interview with Greenlight Creative’s Darryl Shelly on IMPAward’s  Peer 2 Peer Articles.

A Sampling of Readers' Comparisons

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