Once in a while, a poster reminds you of a bunch of things. You cannot put your finger on what. The poster of the Anthony Hopkins movie The Rite did that to me.
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Plagiarism in Forthcoming Movies – 12 – The Rite
December 12, 2010Piet Mondrian and Tyler Perry
November 2, 2010Strikingly Similar. Piet Mondrian’s Composition 2 in Red, Blue & Yellow and Tyler Perry’s latest.
Inspired Maybe; Lifted – Surely not!
Plagiarism in Forthcoming Movies – 9 – Social Network
October 9, 2010Design houses have a trademark Look & feel to their work - Crew Creative, BLT or Pritish Nandy Communications.
The recent movie poster trend of copy on top of an image using photoshop is the equivalent of a big boss making horrible additions to your carefully crafted powerpoint slide.
The “Facebook Movie” is about Plagiarism and it is indeed apt that the movie poster is a “Repurposed” one. The creative Agency Kellerhouse reused the concept from the Criterion Cover they created for The Man who fell to Earth for the poster of The Social Network. In fact, they seem to be specialists in the “Throw some text in the middle of an image to create impact” variety of posters.
Hat Tip: Monkeyartawards
Braveheart & Kisna
August 14, 2010Similar… Definitely inspired
Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai & Mr. and Mrs. Smith
August 14, 2010Emraan Hashmi = Angelina Jolie ; Ajay Devgn = Brad Pitt !!
Plagiarism in Forthcoming Movies – 6 – Anjaana Anjaani
August 14, 2010Blatant Ripoff … The Cobblestone, the Pose, The Black tie…
Shame on the Poster designers for Anjaana Anjaani !!
Plagiarism in Forthcoming Movies – 5 – Zokkomon
February 13, 2010Zokkomon = Kick-ass !
I don’t mean it is awesome… I mean that the poster (and concept) is shamelessly lifted. The costumes of Red Mist & Zokkomon are very similar. Look at the similarity of poses – Uncanny resemblance. And what is it with rooftop tiles? and all of these on top of a building.
Does Disney not know what is happening in Hollywood? See the posters for yourself.
Bolo Raam
January 13, 2010The movie sank without a trace!
But, not before having liberally borrowed the poster concept from a few posters – The Game, Split Second & Gamer. See for yourself.
Inspired by “In Cold Blood”
December 14, 2009One of the most Iconic Genre-defining Books of all time is Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. It heralded the arrival of the Non-fiction Novel.
The 1967 Movie Version of this book has a unique poster. The eyes in the movie poster are actually those of the real-life killers Dick Hickock & Perry Smith (and not of the actors).
The 2007 Film An American Crime is based on the real life murder of Gertrude Baniszewski, a housewife. So, aptly, the poster pays a tribute to In Cold Blood.
Plagiarism in Forthcoming Movies – II – A Bunch of Hindi Movies
September 20, 2009Get a life Bollywood!!
1. Nagesh Kukunoor’s Aashayein and Indiana Jones (The Whip, The Fedora & the Satchel) – Ridiculous. Really hope this is an intentional in-joke .
2. Click and Disturbia / Grudge
3. Flat and Ring / Grudge (Again) / 1408 (Updated)
