Instead of flipping the Compacta™ typeface sideways like in the poster for Disorder, in this case the image itself defies gravity to emphasise the dramatically outstretched arm. Mel Gibson, brandishing a gun, leans into a dirty car door for cover. This one-sentence synopsis leaves little to the imagination, and had LA take the familiar route. In the action thriller an ex-con reunites with his estranged wayward 16-year old daughter to protect her from drug dealers who are trying to kill her. The poster for Blood Father is the latest addition in this peculiar list of plagiarism, both accidental and intentional.
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The ‘horizontal bands’ and ‘floating heads’ are two of the genre clichés I discuss in my presentations about movie posters – next month at Adobe MAX San Diego! Another topic in my talk are the almost-lookalikes, designs that are nearly identical. © 2015 Sundance Selects – Click the image to see the complete poster for Disorder (previously Maryland) on Gold Poster. However this sin of the ’90s makes the letters end up in the exact right spots on his face, and their italic angle perfectly matches the Belgian film star’s features. Normally I would scoff at the dated technique of excessively spacing the compressed sans capitals ( Berthold Akzidenz-Grotesk Medium Condensed Italic). The typographic composition may look simple, yet it is very thoughtfully integrated into the image. By reprising this vibrant hue in the type running vertically over his face, they achieved a complementary-but-not-quite colour scheme that is very intense without the annoying shimmer. Heavily saturating the tightly cropped photograph made Matthias Schoenaerts’ bullet-proof vest turn cyan. They flipped the type vertically to create tension in what could have been a fairly mainstream poster. Sometimes it helps to look at things sideways, and P+A quite literally did that. The international poster for the French thriller Disorder, about an ex-soldier with PTSD who is hired to protect the wife and child of a wealthy Lebanese businessman while he’s out of town, is also a very strong design. © 2015 Sundance Selects – Click the image to see the complete poster for Disorder on Gold Poster. It is an effective visual metaphor for the emotional and psychological turmoil experienced by the main character Janie. The image treatment conjures up the psychedelic experiments fueled by mind-expanding drugs in the ’70s. Yet it somehow suits the artwork – a striking double-exposure reproduced with circular rasters in pure cyan and magenta.
Fair enough, the designer went really out of their way to make the type look as un/refined as possible. The optical correction also is inconsistent, as the ‘O’ has quite a bit of overshoot, but the ‘U’ hardly any.ĭespite all these technical shortcomings in the typography, the poster actually looks great. Because it is so tight, the diagonal on the ‘N’ looks too heavy.
The widths of the individual letters are inconsistent, with a very narrow ‘U’, ‘N’, ‘H’ and ‘K’ compared to the ‘C’, ‘O’, and ‘E’. While the uncommon narrowing of the spine of the ‘S’ is consistent with this vintage style, the letter leans back to the point it seems to topple over. The wood-type inspired extra bold sans serif on the poster for psychological horror thriller Sun Choke (also by The Refinery) is fraught with similar problems.
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