An Idea...

[spuzzlightyear.livejournal.com]

Since it's the Oscars on Sunday, can we do a Movie poster / Print Advertisement (but no trailers) for Academy Award winning movies? I was going to say "any movie we love", but it's nice to have a theme.

What do you think?

Comments

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

I like the idea! :)

[cheesygirl.livejournal.com]

Why'd they make Orson look like Alan Ladd?

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

Was he short too?

[cinchona.livejournal.com]

I thought he was a misidentified Tim Holt.

[ohsochewy.livejournal.com]

Wow! It's a poster that has absolutely nothing to do with the movie or any recognizable image within!

(And yes.)

[bitterflower.livejournal.com]

Huh? It's got lots of images from scenes of the movie from left to right.

[ohsochewy.livejournal.com]

Sure, but they're not THE scenes from the movie. (I admit that I didn't pay as much attention as I could have, though, because it was just so damn generic!)

It looks almost more like Gone With the Wind. He's speaking to a crowd, but it doesn't have the giant poster of his face behind him; the styling of the art doesn't immediately render the sled scene as iconic. The ones I always think about are him in the newsroom, or something involving all sorts of giant statues, etc. Maybe the opera scenes, but from here it looks like a county fair behind those curtains and not, say, Susan alone in that harem or whatever that scene was.

[baron154.livejournal.com]

I agree, this poster makes it seem like an entirely different sort of film- it's completely unrecognizable, stylistically and otherwise.

[marstokyo.livejournal.com]

He looks like Yul Brynner not Orson Welles!

[tink-queen.livejournal.com]

Surelt the copywriters could've come up with something better than it's terrific? My bet is that they either didn't see the movie or the dark forces (re: Hearst) wouldn't allow to be specific about what the movie was about...

[bzul.livejournal.com]

"It's a spectacular thorn in an 800-pound-gorilla's paw!"
"It's a swift kick in the VIP!"
"The biggest taunted house picture of all time!"

[meezergal.livejournal.com]

Orson must have LOVED playing Hearst, secretly-- it wan't really a stretch at all for him. Both megalomaniacs in their own way.

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

It was his sled!! (actually, it was his pet name for his mistress' ladybits, which is why Hearst got so bent out of shape about it. But hey, he had a gorgeous house to live in.)

[cactuswren.livejournal.com]

I think posters on Oscar Sunday are a great idea!