“Thirteen movie poster trends that are here to stay and what they say about their movies”

This is pretty fascinating. From the website Oh No They Didn’t, a look at 13 movie poster trends with some tongue-in-cheek comments about what each means. Here are two:

1. Tiny People On the Beach, Giant Heads in the Clouds

These movies are always sappy dramas. Do not allow you to be mislead by the trailer or calibre of the people involved into thinking otherwise. The protagonist/his little brother/father and/or love interest is very likely to end up dead. You probably should keep your tissues handy because you’ll cry tears of sorrow, tears of joy, tears because you just wasted 13 dollars on this movie. This sort of poster is inevitably used for anything that involves Nicholas Sparks.

8. Run For Your Life

Apparently all action heroes run through the same blue-lit, narrow alleyway when trying to escape/catch the bad guys. It’s also possible that graphic designers just re-use the same stock image of the running guy over and over again. The movies themselves are pretty similar to the Black/Orange ones except that all the explosions have been replaced with angst.

One way to think about your story is to imagine the one-sheet. Does the imaginary movie poster for that current script you are working on fall into one of these 13 categories?

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