Stoker

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After a considerable amount of time, when I left this blog in hiatus, lost in the ineluctables waves of procrastination, I finally anchored in Port Productivity and decided it is time for a new blog post:

Stoker.

This movie is the first effort of director Park Chan-wook in the English language.
Plot wise, it recreates the same vibes of Shadow Of A Doubt, one of my favorite, but at the same time underrated, Hichtcock's movies.

This poster re-creates a dark, intricate, double-edged plot in a perfectly executed graphic art work that blows up all its fine, detailed complexity.
The art work has been rendered by a team of illustrators and entirely drawn simply with pencils and ink.

It is rare nowadays to develop a film poster - a representation of the first glance at a movie even before its first teaser/trailer - deploying talented artists and impactful visual imagery instead of settling for a hasty composition of random screenshots of the movie itself.

To compare and analyze this aspect, please remember The Avengers' one and simply notice how all elements are simply juxtaposed next to each other with no respect for physic-lighting rules where each character receives light from a different source.Compromises for the sake of marketing or deadlines can be done, but for the ones who care it is mandatory to embrace the importance of upgrading from a level of  complacency to a superior level that can be truly appreciated.

And since I care about this blog, from now on I will only review movie posters compatible with my excellent taste.

Sorry Avengers!

Man On A Ledge

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It is always nice to see self-explanatory posters like Man On A Ledge. 
Funnily enough, it portrays a man on a ledge (duh) and, just in case the concept is not clear enough, the upper text tells us "you can only push an innocent man so far" because yes, he is on a ledge and if you push him he will most likely fall. Unfortunately that is still one of the biggest risks of being a man on ledge. 


And again the main graphic shows us a man on top of the building staring at thousands of people in the street, fire trucks and an extremely distorted building.
Using a fisheye lens for a movie poster is never a good idea - it always deters from the dramatic factor and instead, looks like something from Jackass. Come on Johnny Knoxville, I bet you can jump from that building and land in a tiny, inflatable pool.
At the bottom, the pictures of the rest of the cast are displayed - one of the worst graphic compositions of all.
Screenshots never work for posters, especially when they are cropped in passport picture size and all have different color temperature. Do they really have to show their faces because nobody will recognize just their names? That's a possibility, but the lack of alignment between names and pictures is a fact.


The overall impression about this poster is that other than communicating that the movie is about a man on a ledge it  doesn't tell much more except that Sam Worthington will not need a trichological treatment anytime soon.