Comments on: Poster Comparison No. 8 – The Holy Man and the Cataclysm http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/blog/2010/03/poster-comparison-no-8-the-holy-man-and-the-cataclysm.html Bright Lights Film Journal's companion blog Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:29:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: saltobello http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/blog/2010/03/poster-comparison-no-8-the-holy-man-and-the-cataclysm.html/comment-page-1#comment-288 saltobello Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:46:44 +0000 http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/blog/?p=1213#comment-288 Great post. I haven't seen 2012 and I haven't seen The Ten Commandments since, jeez, I was a kid (but I'm pretty up on the story), so I have to admit, it's a little hard for me to follow your train of thought. But you did a great job describing things, so I believe I get your point. I like the 2012 poster and like it when contemporary designers and filmmakers get a loose inspiration from prior decades. (I noticed this was the Ten Commandments poster for a reissue; I wonder if it was the original as well.) And I really like your use of a game of jacks as a metaphor! Great post. I haven’t seen 2012 and I haven’t seen The Ten Commandments since, jeez, I was a kid (but I’m pretty up on the story), so I have to admit, it’s a little hard for me to follow your train of thought. But you did a great job describing things, so I believe I get your point.

I like the 2012 poster and like it when contemporary designers and filmmakers get a loose inspiration from prior decades. (I noticed this was the Ten Commandments poster for a reissue; I wonder if it was the original as well.)

And I really like your use of a game of jacks as a metaphor!

]]> By: C. Jerry Kutner http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/blog/2010/03/poster-comparison-no-8-the-holy-man-and-the-cataclysm.html/comment-page-1#comment-287 C. Jerry Kutner Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:11:22 +0000 http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/blog/?p=1213#comment-287 How regrettably true. How regrettably true.

]]> By: Steve Johnson http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/blog/2010/03/poster-comparison-no-8-the-holy-man-and-the-cataclysm.html/comment-page-1#comment-284 Steve Johnson Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:23:23 +0000 http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/blog/?p=1213#comment-284 Consider also the passionate intensity of the one character vs. the apparent lack of conviction of the other, and what Yeats would have said about this picture. All the vigor is arrayed on the side of the cataclysm deniers today rather than the prophets, and we are in one hell of a fix. Consider also the passionate intensity of the one character vs. the apparent lack of conviction of the other, and what Yeats would have said about this picture. All the vigor is arrayed on the side of the cataclysm deniers today rather than the prophets, and we are in one hell of a fix.

]]> By: James http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/blog/2010/03/poster-comparison-no-8-the-holy-man-and-the-cataclysm.html/comment-page-1#comment-283 James Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:11:08 +0000 http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/blog/?p=1213#comment-283 I like 2012 poster the most. It seems that the monk is thinking "Oh boy..." Nice comparisons BTW I like 2012 poster the most. It seems that the monk is thinking “Oh boy…”

Nice comparisons BTW

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