Thursday 24 November 2011

Movie Poster clichés

Flavorwire.com, one of the more interesting sites reporting on modern culture, has an excellent article analyzing movie poster clichés. The one below is titled:
 
How do you properly express your tough-love relationship?  By standing back to back!
 
Nice to see the 1949 B&W Spencer Tracy-Kathrine Hepburn feature, Adam's Rib, get a run amongst that selection.

The flavorwire site features fifteen collections, each illustrating another example of an over-used movie poster idea. My favourite is #2: "There is only one color of dress for romantic comedies."

Take a look for yourself:

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1 comment:

Kathy said...

It is very clever to make a poster of posters. The juxtaposition illuminates similar elements beautifully. I hadn't realised how strongly psychologically based movie posters were.
Thanks for the link, Henry.