{"id":9228,"date":"2012-01-02T20:25:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T01:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=9228"},"modified":"2017-11-11T03:34:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T22:34:43","slug":"hollywood-movie-posters-predictable-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/hollywood-movie-posters-predictable-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood movie posters |  predictable &#8216;creativity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9229\" title=\"repetitive_yellow\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/repetitive_yellow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"511\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Super-saturated yellow means <em>&#8220;big independent film.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9230\" title=\"repetitive_backs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/repetitive_backs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"388\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Back to back: <em>tough-love relationship ahead.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9231\" title=\"repetitive_red_dress\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/repetitive_red_dress.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"364\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">The only dress colour for romantic comedies? <em>Red.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9232\" title=\"repetitive_blue_street\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/repetitive_blue_street.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"465\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Running down a blue street?<em> Thriller.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9233\" title=\"repetitive_eye\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/repetitive_eye.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">An enormous, looming eye can only mean <em>horror<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9234\" title=\"repetitive_legs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/repetitive_legs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"519\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">View between the legs? <em>Likely includes sex scenes and\/or a hot female actress.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Hollywood, California<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Christophe Courtois has compiled quite a collection of movie posters and put them together according to genre\u2014here you can see what he tried to show at-a-glance. His point is that Hollywood movie posters have basically fallen into a number of design clich\u00e9s of late, a change from the originality that posters exhibited, say, 50 years back. You can see more of his comparisons <a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/233403\/visual-representations-of-15-over-used-movie-poster-cliches#1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Thanks to colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harkideas.com\/gary-ludwig.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Ludwig<\/a> for the link.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super-saturated yellow means &#8220;big independent film.&#8221; Back to back: tough-love relationship ahead. The only dress colour for romantic comedies? Red. Running down a blue street? Thriller. An enormous, looming eye can only mean horror. View between the legs? Likely includes sex scenes and\/or a hot female actress. Hollywood, California Christophe Courtois has compiled quite a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15425,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions\/15425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}