“The posters are dope, but the essays range from pretty good to Jesus Christ, Get Over Yourself.
“Actually, these African artists are a like like Gauguin in ways you might not expect.” Probably true because I don’t think I could point out a Gaugin painting(?) from a lineup.
I think the essays often tried to do the “considering low culture from a high culture perspective” thing, and that is usually kind of boring.
PS, I’m not saying that African culture is low culture, but I AM saying that crappy Hollywood action movies are. Deal with it.
It’s definitely fun and interesting to see the interpretations of these movies put to canvas, especially with so many movie posters being so goddamn boring. These posters from Ghana tend to be more interpretive than literal, and I’m all for it.
Which is hilarious because we live in a country where some dope sues a movie studio because the trailer had actors that were cut from the movie? And some even dopier dope was like, “I’m a judge, this seems reasonable. $5 million dollars in punishment for someone who rented a $3.99 movie on streaming and didn’t see an actor they thought would be in the movie feels like a good, round number.”
It’s like these people have never seen an 80’s film made by Roger Corman where a big star walks through for 10 minutes at the beginning and has a death scene at the end. Or: like they’ve never seen a movie that was on TNT.
Or, like, every movie trailer promises that a movie will be good, and they are not all good. So how does that work? If the movie is just kind of a piece of shit, wouldn’t it be false advertising if the trailer was like, “Not a total piece of shit?””