There are lots of cases of movie posters in the background of other movies. One
of my personal favorites is in The Maltese Falcon. As Bogart arrives on the
crime scene of his murdered partner, in the background we can clearly see a one
sheet posted to a wall for Swing Your Lady-- a film Bogart hated and claimed he
never made... It was just a guy that looked like him. John Huston was obviously
having some fun at Bogart's expense.
--- On Thu, 5/30/13, Kirby McDaniel <ki...@movieart.net> wrote:
> From: Kirby McDaniel <ki...@movieart.net>
> Subject: [MOPO] POSTER WITHIN A FILM
> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
> Date: Thursday, May 30, 2013, 9:51 AM
> Last night I watched a DVD of the
> Ronald Neame film, THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS (1956). There
> is a scene in the film where two cars are en route to a
> destination. In one of the shots, in the background,
> there is a billboard for HITLER'S CHILDREN. I couldn't
> make out much of the art on the poster, but the title
> was clearly evident. These kinds of contextual
> juxtapositions are common in movies today, but in this film
> that poster - it looks to be a British six sheet - could
> just
> as easily have been any 1942 film. Why HITLER'S
> CHILDREN? I can't help but believe there was a kind of
> knowingness in that choice. For those of you who have
> not
> seen the movie, it concerns an effort to deceive the German
> military as to the true location of Allied invasion of
> Europe.
>
> What do you remember about movie posters in films?
> When are they just props and when do they comment on
> something? Incidentally, the DVD from Netflix
> was a quite respectable transfer of a CinemaScope
> picture. Not Blu-Ray, though.
>
> Kirby McDaniel
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