A collection of Polish movie posters (as in “Polish posters for Hollywood movies”, not “posters for Polish movies”).
Seeing these reminds me of an old exhibition of hand-painted African posters for Hollywood movies; the artists took a lot of liberties (I notably remember a poster for The Empire Strikes Back where C-3P0 was wearing a tutu for some reason) but they invariably made the movies seem even more interesting than they were. “Repostering” strikes me as the sort of thing that could easily become the next big Internet trend…
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My favorite has to be the one for Airplane.
But some of these are very WTF-worthy
The “Raging Bull” and “Fatal Attraction” posters are cool. (Is it just me, or do a lot of these look like they were designed by the same person?)
Also- Poland makes their own posters for movies? Here they just look for a font that closely approximates the English one, and slap the translated title on the original movie poster (usually the most boring version of it- I never saw any of the really cool Dark Knight posters locally).
Empire had an article on these a few months ago. Some great ones in there. Love the Gandhi one.
Wow, some of those are really great. I laughed at Tootsie though, it makes it look like a really dark film.
I think I adore the ones for Permanent Vacation. And Flipper. Flipper may well be my new LJ Icon.
It’s not really done now (though the tradition held on for a while.) Back in the days of Soviet domination, movie theaters were state-backed like most everything else, so advertising was less about getting asses in seats and more just letting people know what was playing. So the artists were free to get a little creative and this itself became popular.
It’s a shame that there isn’t more variety in international movie marketing these days, but then there’s little point since now they’re just trying to beat the bootleggers.
Wow. The Fly. Wow.