Saturday, October 17, 2009

And ain't I a woman?...


A great poster from a classic cult movie. This movie is a seminal work in the exploitation genre, and, quite arguably, director Russ Meyer's magnum opus. Sex and violence; fast cars & fast women; it's got it all. As another poster for this film proclaimed, 'Filmed in glorious black and blue!' I would add that the victims in this film, by and large, are the male characters. The use of three different typefaces in the first three lines is not exactly coherent, and feels a little tacky, but the movie itself is tackiness personified, so it fits. There is an extremely dynamic feel to this poster. The first word is slanted (with 'wind marks' added) to effectively convey a sense of speed. The next line of type doesn't really fit in with anything else on the poster, but it does visually 'grab'. The third line is the only element of color, and it is that emotional red, to emphasize 'kill!' It's a little hard to see in this size of image, the fonts using the word 'kill' are also segmented, and shifted laterally, in order to draw more attention to that line. The central female character dominates the center of the frame, partly through her angled, diagonal pose, and partly through the use of her black clothing contrasting with the more grayscale figures.

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