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Top Posters of 2010: #10. The Tempest
Anyway you slice it, there is so much going on in this triptych display, perhaps too much. The fantastical, deafening re-imagining of Shakespeare is an eye-catching advertisement with it’s muted saturation of the colors treatment to the trio of characters spread across the three horizontal frames in the four (or perhaps three) classical element splendor. I find it exciting, alluring and evocative all at once, too bad that after three weeks, it looks like a title that cost 20 million to make and will have made less than half a million by the time Disney pulls the plug will soon be admired on DVD cover boxes.
[Editor’s Note: I asked our resident Art of the Movie Poster feature writer Brad Sorensen to contribute his top 10 list of the one sheets he preferred in 2010. Here begins the countdown.]
10. The Tempest (Theatrical One-Sheet)
Distributor: Touchstone Pictures
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Comments: Anyway you slice it, there is so much going on in this triptych display, perhaps too much. The fantastical, deafening re-imagining of Shakespeare is an eye-catching advertisement with it’s muted saturation of the colors treatment to the trio of characters spread across the three horizontal frames in the four (or perhaps three) classical element splendor. I find it exciting, alluring and evocative all at once, too bad that after three weeks, it looks like a title that cost 20 million to make and will have made less than half a million by the time Disney pulls the plug will soon be admired on DVD cover boxes.
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