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Gayly Grimm
Many of the movie posters I saw in Tokyo had this hyper-dramatic, bisymmetrical layout. They looked quite ridiculous to me, and I would have ignored it as just another unknowable Asian movie advertisement if I hadn't eventually recognized Matt Damon behind all that pancake and eyeliner. I'm not kidding--I walked by this poster several times before I realized just who it was making bedroom eyes in my direction from under that teasingly tousled do.
Given the whole presentation--the heavy makeup, the Sigfried and Roy hair and muttonchops, the phallic tower in the middle, the bedroom eyes--a more gay movie poster I could hardly imagine (not that there's anything wrong with that; remember, I live in San Francisco after all). It's fascinating to imagine how this poster would go over in America. Clue: not very well, unless it were for a Broadway adaptation playing in Las Vegas, and the production included lots of tigers, magic, and sequins.
By the way, the movie that's being adverstised is The Brothers Grimm. Especially odd to give it this presentation since I thought it was a tongue-in-cheek romp.
Gayly Grimm
Many of the movie posters I saw in Tokyo had this hyper-dramatic, bisymmetrical layout. They looked quite ridiculous to me, and I would have ignored it as just another unknowable Asian movie advertisement if I hadn't eventually recognized Matt Damon behind all that pancake and eyeliner. I'm not kidding--I walked by this poster several times before I realized just who it was making bedroom eyes in my direction from under that teasingly tousled do.
Given the whole presentation--the heavy makeup, the Sigfried and Roy hair and muttonchops, the phallic tower in the middle, the bedroom eyes--a more gay movie poster I could hardly imagine (not that there's anything wrong with that; remember, I live in San Francisco after all). It's fascinating to imagine how this poster would go over in America. Clue: not very well, unless it were for a Broadway adaptation playing in Las Vegas, and the production included lots of tigers, magic, and sequins.
By the way, the movie that's being adverstised is The Brothers Grimm. Especially odd to give it this presentation since I thought it was a tongue-in-cheek romp.