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- 27x40 inches
- Original Theatre Poster
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Inspired by Bolshevik posters, the "V for Vendetta" movie poster,
By Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (COMMUNITY FORUM 04) (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)
This review is from: V for Vendetta, Original Double-sided Movie Theatre Poster, 27x40, Natalie Portman
So, "V for Vendetta" opened with $25.6 million this weekend, which is within shouting distance of the $27.8 million the Wachowski brothers made with the first "Matrix" film seven years ago. Not bad for a movie who release was pushed back four months (it was originally slatted to be released last November 4, but then July 7 of last year saw the transit attacks in London that created some uncomfortable parallels with the movie. There might have been other reasons for pushing back the release date, but it is hard to believe it was not part of the equation. Remember when movies eerily reflected reality with cases like "Marooned" and Apollo 13 or "The China Syndrome" and Three-Mile Island? Now we have movies like "Collateral Damage" being postponed because of September 11th.
The omni-present ads for the film and the idea of Natalie Portman with a shaved head are probably the major reasons for the solid turnout this first week, simply because I doubt there are that many fans of Alan Moore and David Lloyd's comic book series that turned concerns about Margaret Thatcher's conservative government into a totalitarian nightmare of Orwellian proportions. The movie poster is interesting, but I would not think it is a part of the equation as well. The film's producer Joel Silver was inspired by the pre-Soviet era designs of Bolshevik posters at the Tate Gallery in London. The muted palette of the poster reflects the limitations of reproducing full color at that time. Silver wanted people to feel that the poster, which features art by Gilbert Cruz, came from the world of the movie. The poster's art director, Ron Michaelson, has explained that following the form of posters from the Russian Revolution, everything is at an angle, arranged perpendicular to the main axis. In the film, V's symbol is a giant V over a circle, spray-painted in red. The poster pivots the symbol so that the left part of the v is on the vertical axis with the right at an angle. The left line extends through the shaved head of Evey (Portman), while the right runs parallel to the cloak of V (Hugo Weaving). The way the red symbol is cut off by the other figures and the bottom of the poster, what is left looks eerily like most of a Soviet hammer & sickle design (although, ironically, you can make an argument it is part of a peace symbol). The "V" divides the circle into three areas, and the left most area show Parliament and Big Ben with flames rising in front of them, with a mass of figures observing. Having Parliament and the masses in the poster helps suggest that this is a political film, because otherwise the large dark figure of V with his drawn dagger would speak more to murder or assassination that political revolution. Another irony of the film is that the way V is portrayed makes him look like a Jack the Ripper figure, and "From Hell, " the most recent film about the Ripper, was based on another Alan Moore graphic novel (and decidedly the most faithful film adaptation to date, with "V for Vendetta" coming in the middle and "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" holding the bottom slot on the continuum. This 27 x 40 inch movie theater poster is compelling and rather different, but I would not go so far as to claim it is a contemporary classic. Still, it is an above average effort by current standards.
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