Indy_Chic
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replican't said:They coulda made it much, much better!
LMAO!!!! I'm so glad the fridge is featured on the poster, I was worried that it might have been forgotten.
On a side note - Indy has facial hair in the poster!
replican't said:They coulda made it much, much better!
The teaser poster simply stated: "Trust him."No Ticket said:The second was the whole "If adventure has a name, it must be Indiana Jones."
I'm guessing this poster will grow on me like the teaser one, but something still feels very off about them both! I'm really strongly suspecting some digital assistance for Struzan, and that these last two posters may have not been done completely by hand. Ford looks great, but you can tell Struzan shaved off a bunch of years in that portrait. The foliage and stonework of the ruins bordering the picture is very graphic looking, almost video game like, which to me hints at some photoshop work. I pulled out my two Struzan poster books and flipped through all his Indy work, and there does seem to be something different about these as compared to his older works. I didn't see it with the Star Wars posters, so I'm wondering if it's something new he's trying?Playmount said:It feels... okay to me. I like it, but I don't love it. Somehow I think the original artwork Struzan may have turned in was better. Or, at least... I hope so. It seems, I don't know... majorly 'effed with by some Photoshop lackey at Lucasfilm. Just like Struzan's Episode III poster.
Some or all of the foliage looks like it was added later, especially at the top of the poster where it is completely black and there is no fine, penciled-in detail (it may just be the jpg compression, though)... the blurred foliage against the yellow/orange background next to Indy's head looks added and bizarre (what's the motivation for it?)... the left side of Indy's hat still retains a golden feathered outline suggesting the real yellow/orange background used to extend everywhere around his head... and the crystal skull feels completely out of place, like it has been added in over a typical Struzan sun disc (like on his Last Crusade poster). Compare the crystal skull here to the way Struzan depicted it on the teaser poster. It just doesn't look like his work. To me, anyway.
Hard to tell though due to the sloppy, pixelated, nearest-neighbor reduction of the image that USAToday did. I mean, look at the credits!
All this endless digital tinkering (if that's what it is -- I have no proof) is really sapping this modern-day Lucasfilm stuff of the inspired, handmade look the 80s stuff seemed to possess in abundance.
At least they didn't mess with Struzan's near-superlative depiction of Ford. Much better than the teaser poster depiction. For Struzan, I'd place it just after his Temple of Doom depiction and before his Last Crusade. Also... Ford running looks like it was taken from Raiders. Notice his bag strap -- it's underneath his jacket!