This website contains film posters of all different kinds. It contains posters of every genre, and also talks about what special techniques go into the making of these posters for each specific genre. The website's homepage talks about why people buy film posters. It analyzes the fact that the posters have monetary value, and sometimes emotional value. People tend to buy posters because they like the movies, and often they even have a significant meaning to the person who owns the poster. Using these posters as decoration then shows people a little bit of who you are, by seeing which movies you like. Since you can't just have a tv around that shows the movies you like 24/7, posters are the best way to show this information.
on the pages for each individual genre, the website has a few paragraphs describing the most iconic posters in each genre. For example, the page for the gangster genre greets the viewers with a poster of Al Pacino in Scarface. While hardly a pleasant image, it is very iconic and memorable. These are really the main goals that should be achieved in a movie poster, you want people to remember the image, and to get an idea of the movie from it. Especially apparent on the pages, also, is the similarities within the genres. Sci fi films tend to show all of the main characters looking out, with the title at the bottom, while gangster films tend to simply show the main character in a scene of the film. Posters are an often overlooked piece of filmmaking, so it is interesting to see a website completely devoted to poster artwork.
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