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Movie posters cliches
Last week I shared a post where I displayed satirical movie posters by Travis Pitts, pointing at the lack of creativity some movie poster designers showed.
Today I’ll share something even better: mosaics of movie posters collected by a french blogger, Christophe Courtois. He assembled together some movie posters that use some old tricks over and over. Following are a few.
Back to back
Usually a bad comedy with two main characters.
Between the legs
Usually feminine legs. Bad comedies where a strong characters comes and changes the life of a boring family.
Black & White, & fire
Action movies with many, many, many cars destroyed.
A big head made of many small images
When the movie revolves around one main characters.
Tiny in people in front, big heads in the background
Movies to avoid, usually stupid romance.
Reflection in big sunglasses
Either a killer that hides behind sunglasses or a stupid animated animal ridiculously voiced by Eddy Murphy.
Great compilation and spot-on at identifying the clichés. I love a good movie poster but there should be a moratorium on the back-to-back and the big floating heads in the sky motifs. Any fresh, new design is seen as risky because movie producers want you to identify their film with a previous one you’ve seen, so you think you know exactly what you’re going to get.
Another easy-to-spot cliché is use of typography, with the biggest offender easily being Trajan.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/TrajanSpec3a.svg/220px-TrajanSpec3a.svg.png
This is terrific. Thanks for the compilation. I felt like I was the only one who was anal about seeing the same crap.
That’s incredible. How can do it without anyone noticing!