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Old 05-18-2007, 04:05 PM
Enrique Enrique is offline
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Default Re: Art in Movie Posters

I was talking to a Polish friend I have and he told me that when he grew up he didn't see these posters and judging from the dates on them, it seems as if they were made in the communist times.
It got me thinking about how communism could have been ideal to doing art in posters. Obviously communism is not ideal for most things (including art), but in the case of posters it makes sense, that since nobody is making money out of the movies in communist countries, then the artist can make the poster however he likes without having to think of a business model or how it will sell. Movie posters have to sell a product, get you to watch a movie, but that may not be the case in a communist regime.
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