7. The Raid
Lone hero stands in front of building, steeling himself – an iconic and frequently used image that attempts to build the foundation of a mythology for the character before the film even has to add detail and backstory. The composition suggests size – both in terms of the hero’s task at hand and the film itself.
Yes there are differences, but the message of the poster remains the same, and it’s no accident that there are a fair few examples of the same composition appearing ahead of big summer releases dealing with one man’s (or humanity as personified by one man) struggle with a great threat. The two posters below prove as much (and show exactly where the other elements of the Star Trek Into Darkness poster design come from)…
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So….Who cares, its not going to stop someone going to see that film because the poster looks like Batman
Congratulations, you missed the point entirely.
Umm… how can a Batman movie rip itself off? Like it or not, Batman and Robin was still a Batman movie. On another note, you are basically saying that any movie poster that has a style similar is a rip off. Really now? The only one I see shamelessly ripping it off would be the Star Trek one. Perhaps the Star Trek poster was designed by the same individual who created the Dark Knight Rises one. I don’t think people honestly care. These days everything is rip off of something. I would say that these posters were inspired by rather than ripped off. Is that such a bad thing?
Well, that was a joke about Batman & Robin.
Just because you love the Dark Knight movies doesn’t mean everything that bears a resemblance is a rip-off. You could easily argue that the Dark Knight posters ripped off other posters (see here: http://twentytwowords.com/2011/11/09/10-movie-poster-cliches-with-plenty-of-examples/). The Dark Knight trilogy is over; you’ll need to find new things to talk about.
Yeah, so I didn’t love the Dark Knight Rises. Read anything I’ve written about it, I’m far from a Nolan fanboy.
People are taking this way too seriously. Great innovated article!
Even moods are rip-offs? “Nolan-esque markers”? “Same sort of clouds”? So any gloomy poster can never be original? Sam, I don’t think anyone is taking this seriously.
Nick just nailed it.
I completely agree about the Inception Battleship thing I saw that the very first time I saw the poster. Spider-man caught my eye as well when it’s poster first came out.
All of your points that you state only makes you the biggest idiot. I am a graphic designer and i laughed at all of the things you said. The only one that makes sense is the star trek 2012 poster but movies have been ripping styles from each other since the beginning of Ben Hur. Problem is star trek did there “ripoff” poster a little too soon for audiences to forget about.
Damn i was expectin the number 1 spot to be Bambi, because that’s a blatent rip off of The Dark Knight lol