Feb 25 2008'Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden' Poster
With a title that makes such a deliberate, untimely pop culture reference, I fully expected that the poster for Morgan Spurlock's Where in the World is Osama bin Laden would again allude to its namesake--the old PBS show, or even older video game, or The Today Show's excuse to send Matt Lauer to Iceland, or whatever it's meant to be. But, wouldn't you know it, that wily narcissist has once again pulled the wool of his ironic mustache over my eyes, coming up with a completely unexpected parody poster: a parody of an '80s comedy poster doing a parody of Raiders of the Lost Ark!
If you compare it to the original Indy poster, you'll notice the filmmaker has cleverly replaced each element of the Raiders one-sheet with something equivalent from his own film. The fearsome snake becomes a clearly-pained camel; the guy with a hat becomes a different guy with a hat; and Indiana himself becomes Spurlock, madly excited to catch you in his snare and smother you in arrogance.
'Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?' Poster Premiere! [Cinematical]
Reader Comments
1. Herner_Wartzog - February 25, 2008 6:00 PM
Was supersize me a great adventure ? I must have missed that part.
2. PB&J - February 25, 2008 7:12 PM
Damn. Just when Michael Moore was so close to a heart attack this guy has to come along.
3. Scooby - February 25, 2008 7:19 PM
Every time I see this guy I think, "why am I working for a living when I could produce schlock."
4. Aerialgreen - February 26, 2008 2:44 AM
@cora: may you and your spamalicious sweat shop bosses get ass-cancer and die a painful death, you know your worth it.
OT: this looks like a direct bargain bin release at the $39 cents store.
5. Scott Agro - February 26, 2008 10:46 AM
Wait, that isn't George Lucas's original concept art for the new Indy film?
6. Turd Ferguson - February 26, 2008 5:13 PM
@ Aerialgreen: I didn't know there were $39 cents stores! WOW! Thirty-nine of my dollarcents will buy me so much cool shit, I will need to buy a second stick to shake.
7. Tom - February 27, 2008 6:03 AM
I didn't remember Indy showing so much chest in the poster, I thought Spurlock was showing us that his vegan g/f got his weight back from his MickyDees experiment and now he is a slim, trim, chest showing luv machine!
8. Tom - February 27, 2008 6:07 AM
You know what they say about a man and the size of his binoculars!
9. patrick - April 16, 2008 7:03 PM
Morgan Spurlock never ceases to impress me... i just saw Super Size Me, which was amazingly insightful, and now he's making a documentary that investigates the war on terrorism? well done indeed