Strange/Interesting things in film posters
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Some Bond posters are good, some not so. But, a lot of them have interesting things in them, that get overlooked.
I'll start this off with two weird things:
- DAF - two random women. So, the two Bind girls of DAF are Plenty and Tiffany. But the poster shows a redhead (nothing like Tiffany) and a random blonde. What were they going for? We're these suppose to be Plenty and Tiffany?
- LALD - Two random women. Again. So there are four women in the poster, Rosie, Solitaire and.....two others on the card. I find this one a bit weird because Baron Samedi was on one of the cards, could they not put any other characters on the cards?
I'll start this off with two weird things:
- DAF - two random women. So, the two Bind girls of DAF are Plenty and Tiffany. But the poster shows a redhead (nothing like Tiffany) and a random blonde. What were they going for? We're these suppose to be Plenty and Tiffany?
- LALD - Two random women. Again. So there are four women in the poster, Rosie, Solitaire and.....two others on the card. I find this one a bit weird because Baron Samedi was on one of the cards, could they not put any other characters on the cards?
1.LTK 2.AVTAK 3.OP 4.FYEO 5.TND 6.LALD 7.GE 8.GF 9.TSWLM 10.SPECTRE 11.SF 12.MR 13.YOLT 14.TLD 15.CR (06) 16.TMWTGG 17.TB 18.FRWL 19.TWINE 20.OHMSS 21.DAF 22.DAD 23.QoS 24.NSNA 25.DN 26.CR (67)
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There are two variation of the TWINE poster. The blue one features a very creepy, Hannibal Lector-ish Renard in the background.
"Better make that two."
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Frogmen are in the most common DAF poster. I'm sure they actually did shoot some stuff with frogmen, I'm sure I've seen behind the scenes footage of it somewhere.
I have no idea which posters are being referred to, I am sure there are hundreds of variants that have been done for some of these films
My favourite strange/interesting thing is that Domino Derval is on OHMSS' soundtrack cover... Check:
Probably due to racial sensitivities most likely?
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You'd think they would get their technical details right...
1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
Picture from http://www.the007dossier.com/007dossier/james-bond-007-movie-posters/octopussy/Octopussy%20Poster%202.jpg
two thirds of the character, can't remember the reason, apart from making
everyone look slimmer ? Also optically I think if the legs were normal length
They'd actually look too short.
Same goes for the AVTAK back-to-back poster with Mayday.
"Better make that two."
It's interesting to see Domino in the OHMSS poster!
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Actually, maybe that's why she looks so teed off!
The picture puts me in mind of that film Bob, Carol and Rita Too or whatever it was, a 1970s sex comedy with Elliot Gould I think.
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Epic poster.
"Better make that two."
I've always loved this one too.
Looks like the backglass to a pinball machine.
Another interesting thing about the poster is that Jaws is bigger than Drax. Really shows how much of a marketing gimmick it was to bring Jaws back.
Still the best Bond poster art though.
Does Jaws get more screen time than Drax? I think he does a lot more in the film than Drax does. I think he also does more than Stromberg. Stromberg and Drax aren't the most hands-on villains. Jaws deserves the big place on the poster since he's one of the few henchmen (along with Red Grant and maybe Necros) who overshadows the villain.
Awesome poster -- one of the best in the series.
TSWLM italy poster (alternative Moooe/Bach faces & art re-drawn)
FYEO german poster (alt. Moore face)
It all goes back to the photos taken for From Russia with Love, when that gun was all they had at the shoot. So the popularity of those photos with the air gun must have been why it was used in so many posters.
Funny you should say that. I was always so annoyed by this blue eyed Connery artwork for DAF:
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They couldn't find a silencer to fit Bond's Walther, so a photographer had an old air gun in his car and they used that.
It's mentioned in the commentary for Dr No. (I think.)
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That's not the only thing wrong with that artwork. Those aren't Connery clothes, and that's not Connery's rug either. Or even his face, for that matter. I don't even know who that is! Maybe it's the guy Red Grant killed.
It had nothing to do with a silencer. The story was that they forgot to bring a PPK to the photoshoot, but the photographer had this air gun with him. Perhaps it was on the DN commentary, but the photoshoot where they used the gun was for From Russia with Love.
I can see countries like Italy nurturing a racial bias more openly than others, especially in earlier decades. It's not a judgement statement on my part, but an observation.
The Italian poster for NSNA is superb - except in that one, Connery's toupee is an abomination.
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