He had long wanted to talk about the movie poster that I think is the greatest of all time: Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo cinema Paradiso, 1989).
And is that what history can be larger than one that tells how the film will touch your life and that is chipping.
Since the birth of cinema, there has been a generation who has not seen their lives revolutionized by this means. Some more than others, but some, even, we have chosen as a way of life just as Toto in the movie.
Not much to say about marketing when a film has no artistic pretensions or economic ambitions. A work and work alone and by word of mouth, because despite Cinema Paradiso is a story set in a remote village in Sicily, as Giancaldo, the film is totally universal and reaches the heart of anyone who has open.
Cinema Paradiso is the kind of movie that sells itself, because everyone "needs" a film. A story that is able to bring memories despite not having lived in the era in which it operates. A story that excites you, makes you laugh and mourn. All this accompanied by the superb composition of Andrea and Ennio Moriconne, with music that sometimes shudders to the marrow and sometimes even your soul happy.
The graphic image of the film, as in any non-commercial film in the pure sense was changing in each country depending on the business approach, which wanted to give each of the distributors that were made of rights.
Illustrating this article can be seen, first, the sign used in the launch in 1989 in Italy. With appear more popular, which aims to reflect the variety of faces and personalities that fill the cast, from the village priest to the various stages of the life of Toto.
The United States opted for a more connected to the romance and the world of cinema as spectacle. It reminds me a lot of posters in The Majestic (2001). This is intended to reflect the great glories of the cinema and by kissing referred to the love story as the basis for the film.
Finally there is the French poster, which has become the protagonist of the subsequent actions of video release in almost everyone. Its structure and taste is much more elegant, with a tendency to want to get a little closer to home movies and all kinds of audiences. Moreover, in itself, absorbed in greater depth the themes of the film. Uses frames as the long path of the two characters, like life itself, with its pluses and minuses, their ups and downs.
frames allude to the kiss as the central element of the film, feelings as a tool that brings out the film in each of the viewers innermost side, as a personal reading that unites millions of people in same emotions. Finally
only advise you that you have not seen yet this film should do as soon as possible, although not become your favorite, I'm sure they'll want to be part of your personal movie library.