Quite quickly I decided upon, Alien, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and No Country for old men. All films I love and also all well known films.
I decided that each of my films must each link visually, each must link with their idea, but they also must sum up the main message of the film, or what the film is about. Without these, the posters wouldn't succeed as a representation of the film or as a set.
I spent some time deliberating how to link all these posters together, I did so not only with the idea, but also visually. After analysing all three films, noting down important and iconic moments within each and what was the underlying message behind them all. It became apparent the main theme subject of each, was about something or someone hiding, or chasing.
*Spoiler Alert*
Alien is about "the perfect organism" without morals or concience, it is perfectly evolved to survive with a variety of deadly survival techniques. Throughout the film, the Alien hides and attacks wiping out the entire crew, bar one in Ripley. Ripley sets a self destruct sequence blowing up the Nostromo and seemingly wiping out the Alien in a visually spectacular explosion. Not all is as it seems though and the Alien is perfectly hidden amongst the architecture of Ripley's escape pod, Giger's design works at it's finest during this scene to create one of the ultimate shock scenes in film history. I abstacted what the architecture of the pipes looked like and visually represented it using this single line which the alien can hide within.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the most abstract film of the three, ultimately is about not knowing what you have until it is gone. In this case, it is their love. Although there are a lot more messages within this film, there are bound to be in such an abstract film, this was the main message the film wanted to communicate. To give you some clue as to what this film is about, in a fictional version of New York city where a new treatment is available to delete your memories, two lovers fall out and delete their memories of each other. The film takes place within the male participent of the relationships mind, Joel. As his memories get deleted he slowly relises he still loves his partner and desperately tries to stop his memories from getting deleted (in his mind). I visualised this by using a spiral as an abstract version of the mind. Joel and Clementine (his girlfriend), hide at the end of this memory hoping for it to not be deleted.
No Country For Old Men, is an absolutely brilliant thriller, all about a chase and a new kind of evil in the modern world. One way that Chigurh (the killer) goes about representing this, is by carrying a captive bolt pistol or cattle gun around with him. Initially the purpose of this isn't apparent. In one scene Chigurh is seen carrying it towards a civilian, unawares to what is about to happen. Chigurh stops the man, talks naturally to him, puts the captive bolt pistol to his skull and kills him. Chigurh had to carefully plan how to kill another man, it can't be classed as a crime of passion, steps were took to prevent knowledge of who was the killer, and how the person was killed. The wound leaves no bullet, yet mimics the damage of a bullet. This new kind of evil and chase was what I pinpointed to be the main message of the film. The single line being an abstract version of rural Texas, the captive bolt pistol being a representation of this new kind of evil hidden amongst the Texan architecture.
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