Why is Muad’Dib doing the virgin walk? Does it avoid attracting the worm?
Because the main conflict of Dune is whether or not to make it a mud planet
If you ask me, all movie posters should be paintings. Photoshopping the actors over a background just feels like such a goddamn afterthought.
Personally, while I find the Dune poster here a bit bland, I would say that that painting isn't really much better. It's still a really similar kind of composition, characters take up a large part of the frame and the setting of the movie is also very present. It feels more like a flashy way to present the movie's important visual stuff and characters they might recognize to the audience rather than a really artistic representation of the movie. Maybe it's a bad analogy but it's kind of like the difference between an a billboard and a mural, where that kind of painted poster is just a more artsy billboard.
You kidding? Look at Luke's pecs! And Leia's clingy and revealing dress! Hundreds of starfighters are swooping up towards the Death Star, while Darth Vader looms overhead! I guess we're just focusing on different things, because I would say that the compositions are completely different.
Not to say that a movie studio couldn't do something interesting with Photoshop, it just seems to me that "overlap production photos of the actors" is the default.
Yeah you're right, the painted poster does have more going on. I guess composition isn't the right word, it's more like someone made a rule book to how you should make a movie poster stating that you have to include at least 3 characters, a view of any IP you plan to make into merch, and the setting of the movie. Very few posters deviate from that formula.
omg it's just a poster, it's not like they hand them out if you buy the movie.
I mean I'm just saying I don't like it, no need to read into it any further than that.
Ill admit I do like when a theater gives you a poster for a movie or some item about the movie
Why does every movie do this? Surely more people would be interested in the movie if the poster showed what the movie was about?
Dune is mostly about sand. This is quite clear from the poster.
This and it's part of the contract deal. Billing is really important and most actors want their face in the poster.
This is why they always have the "special edition" that comes out later with better art.
Wouldn't a better poster be Paul standing on a dune while a big ass Sand-Worm blows out of the desert in the background? That like, does a better job telling what the story is about.
This film looks so unispired design wise. A shame as the weird cover art was a big reason I liked the books as a kid.
The designs have looked OK, not spectacular, but I'm always hesitant to infer too much from trailers and posters. That said, a realistic look can work if done right, and it doesn't look like they're falling into "dark and gritty" territory.
Of course,
spoiler
Give me my David Lynch vagina mouth Guild navigators hotboxing spice tanks and ejaculating space folding all day, every day
Same, maybe I'm fickle but I lost a lot of hype when I saw the first set photos. Probably a reach, but I feel like the influence of the marvel algorithm-aesthetic killed off a lot of visual creativity in the summer blockbuster.
It was downright fast-paced compared to the original Blade Runner. Guess they weren’t familiar with that one?
Read to the tune of Queen's "Bicycle"
White People, Whiite People, Whiiiiite People!
A desert,
full of,
WHITE PEOPLE!
I want to watch it nooowwww!
if you're ever in Turin, the cinema museum (it used to be a giant synagogue) has an amazing collection of Cuban movie posters, many of them for movies you'd recognize, and all of them are imaginative and striking.
