But also some "knowingness" vis a vis the Mary Astor character?
On May 30, 2013, at 10:11 AM, Ron Moore <cinemaicon...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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