I Love Shameless Rip-Offs!!
Vijay’s forthcoming movie Yohan rips off from a 2008 French flick Largo Winch.
The emphasis of the other posters is on showing how cool the hero is and the extent of his globetrotting. Reminds me somewhere of the brilliant I am Legend poster set.
The one where he is kneeling before a red car reminds me of some poster I am not able to place a finger on.
Yohan
Poster 1 from Hollywood - Going the Distance
Poster 2 from Bollywood - I Hate Luv Storys
Yet to sit down and figure out where the other posters are from
The posters dangerously resemble a few movies - Matrix Reloaded , Spidey & Terminator series.
After a lot of Bollywood-bashing, here’s a Tamil movie which is one of the most shameless rips I have seen so far.
Rene Magritte’s classic painting The Lovers (Les Amants) has been used as the poster announcing shooting. Lots of movies have used paintings as inspiration. But, this one just “uses” the painting.
I do hope someone taking the movie pays up the royalty to use this painting.
See for yourself:
Magritte’s Lovers series consists of 4 paintings.
There are also the 4 Covered Heads (which includes the 2 paintings in the Lovers series)
L’histoire centrale (The central story)
As usual, the meaning of the paintings remain shrouded in mystery. Theories range from Fantomas to his mother’s suicide , Love is Blind all the way down to Nick Carter Detective magazines.
One more post on Magritte & Movie Posters / Album art will follow.
I have blogged about poster plagiarism classics like Nayee Padosan, Runway, Red Alert, Click & Flat where there are multiple ripoffs.This one absolutely rocks.
The font used for the Titles are from 24. What’s even cooler is the abandoned Season-1 font has also been used.
The movie is an “experimental” one which was shot in 24 hours. Guess the posters were also made in the same time given the lifts.
You normally see a few jokes here and there in Tamil movies.
A reasonably intelligent movie like Chennai 600028 trips on Chandramukhi
Venkat Prabhu’s own Saroja trips on Chennai 28
Thalaivar Rajini’s Sivaji tripped on so many movies - Tamil & Telugu (a la Om Shanthi Om’s intelligent spoofs)
But, this movie, as described by the director is possibly Kollywood’s answer to Scary Movie, Hot Shots & Naked Gun.
QUOTE
Says Dhayanidhi, “Tamil Padam is the first ever full length spoof film in Tamil. The story is a humorous take on the predictable Tamil formula films.”
CS Amudham the director of the film says: “ In Hollywood the spoof is a popular genre and there has been films like ‘Scary Movie’ a spoof on horror films. Similarly we are spoofing the Tamil mass film. You will laugh your guts out. In short it’s celebration of Tamil cinema.”
UNQUOTE
Everything I have seen and heard so far is mega-spoofy. The director, C S Amudhan has an ad agency called Winds of Change which does Outdoor (Hoardings, Banners, etc). Pulli Raja, Prime Roaster and those atrocious Fitness One ads were all his creations… So, it figures.
Take the Soundtrack. The song “O Maha Zeeya” is one great spoof of all the nonsense which goes on in the name of lyrics in a lot of Harris Jeyaraj songs… The title refers to the gibberish heard at the start of “Uyirin Uyire” in Kaakka Kaakka
Spoofs in the O Maha zeeya song (or This)
Uyirin Uyire- Kaakka Kaakka
Hasili Fisili – Aadhavan
Randakka – Anniyan
Naakka Mukka – Kaadhalil Vizhundhen
Dailamo Dailamo – Dishum Dishum
Balailaka – Sivaji
Ohi lohi mahi lohi ya – Beema
Osaka Muraiya – Alli Arjuna (Rahman’s One 2 ka 4)
Shakalakka – Mudhalvan
Ullahi ullahi – Lesa Lesa
And the best one .. Laalaakku Dol Dappimma – Suriyan
Spoofs in the Trailer (or This )
Absurd Action packed Vijay Intro Sequences (Camera from Top in this case)
Dasavatharam (The US President and all)
Nayagan (Inime appadithaan with Nayagan theme in the background)
Boys (4 pairs of legs dangling from a wall)
Sivaji (2 hand signing)
Baadsha
Simbhu (Style)
Billa (cooling glass scene)
Run (subway sequence)
Kaaka Kaaka (aerial shot)
Thalapathy
And the coolest : The town is called Cinema Patti… How cool is that!!
Spoofs in Movie Stills
In addition to the movies mentioned above,
Roja (The couple inside the same sweater)
Annamalai (The brown suit and low camera angles)
Uyire (The mail poster)
Sathya (The hospital sequence)
Baba (trips on the Baba mudra)
Poster Spoofs
Ramki’s Dafli Song in Senthoora Poove (Image, Video) and the Poster (The exact frame appears exactly 60 seconds into the video)
Singaravelan’s Pudhu Cheri Kacheri (Image, Video) and the Poster (Note the tongue in cheek ad)
Enga Ooru Paattukaaran’s Senbagame (Image, Video) and the Poster . (Ramarajan is just awesome fun as he is trying to sing when he is busy milking the cow (See this to believe it) . Shanthipriya coyly watches the sequence (Guffaw!)
Rajini’s Konji Konji from Veera and (Image, Video) and Poster
Thillana Mohanambal (Image 1,Image 2 ) and Poster with M.S Bhaskar playing Balaiyya’s Thavil Vidhvan’s role
Pre-Release Concept Posters
The first one which came out talked about the movie not being a “Different one”
One more poster of the movie takes Gap10′s trip by using the MS font Jokerman (LOL) and says a sorry before that by asking for the only word in tamil which Gap10 does not like
Another poster spoofs the typical rape scene in tamil movies by showing a male hand forcing a female hand in front of a painting showing a tiger slaying a deer
One is a preachy Gap10 kind of dialogue referencing Gandhiji, etc and at the same time referring to tons of Punch Dialogues
One features the 10 commandments of Tamil cinema (Commandment 9 is Thou Shall single-handedly take on & eradicate all the evil in the world and commandment 10 is Thou shall have a six-pack) … There are some really nice differences between the Tamil & English versions.
Enjoy all the posters at one place!
Poster design in Bollywood is getting slicker .
For the rustics, there is always a primer on how to create banal posters - whether it is for a political party or for a movie.
Then, there is the standardised poster version of the Four Step Plan. Lift Karadey!
Some original creations exist; Interesting perspectives & colourscapes used. You can see hints of “borrowing”, but overall, as the Fab 4 would have put it, it is getting better All the time.
The next 3 posts have 3 movies which have various degrees of inspiration.
1. Twenty-20 Vs I Am Legend (Look at the Background; What is Brooklyn Bridge doing in a Malayalam Poster)
2. Asal Vs Dark Knight (Look at the Background)
3. Poo Vs Siva Manasula Sakthi Vs A Lot Like Love – All of them are Inspired by the Let it Be album Cover
4. Billa Vs Angels & Demons (The Book) (The Ambigram Funda)
Hat Tip: Various Forums and Bloggers for 1 & 2; Babu Kuriakose for 3
(Babu Kuriakose spotted interesting font rip-offs (1,2) in South Indian movies. More here)
