Jul 2 2008Joker Unaware of Innumerable 'Dark Knight' Promotions, Creates Another Poster
Concept: Joker bought around a hundred boxes of old-fashioney playing cards and removed the jokers. He then arranged the jokers on a poster with a combination of tape, blood, and careful x-acto blade cutting, proceeded to airbrush the image of Batman, then defaced that image with all the cute quotes he uses in the movie. This establishes the scene in the film where the Joker is doing hours of tedious crafting to create self-referential collages.
Another Batman Poster [Why So Serious?]
Reader Comments
1. SandraB - July 2, 2008 12:33 PM
Decoupage never looked so good
2. rtyd6td - July 2, 2008 12:54 PM
kinda funny
a sick, fucked up, criminal maniac makes better movie posters than most of the illustrators / graphic designers employed by Hollywood.........
......oh and he's dead - now beat that!
3. Uncle Eccoli - July 2, 2008 12:57 PM
This is getting to the point where I'm beginning to feel as though I don't even need to see this. What am I going to get out of it that hasn't already been conveyed by one poster or another? A ticket stub? An eight-dollar-shaped hole in my pocket?
4. Elmo - July 2, 2008 3:32 PM
I love it when movies make waaaaaay to many posters- That's the best part! Well, for me, I'm an artist and I like weird things.
I bought a few of these posters for a media room in my house, now I have to buy all of them... shit...
oh, and rtyd6td (#2 guy) all that was what I was going to say, you jackass you
5. Tom - July 2, 2008 4:59 PM
You know what I love? I love when a movie has a mentally disturbed villain, and then it just goes mental with the "check it, this guy's CRAZY" schtick. Oohh, he's WACKY, what's he gonna do next? Honestly, it's like if Family Guy was a villain in a movie.
6. Joey - July 2, 2008 7:10 PM
I hate it when promotion takes on a life of it's own and begins to bear little resemblence to the film itself. I think that's what's starting to happen here. It's like when they come up with overly-cute characterized toys to put in happy meals.
"Oh, man! You got The Gimp in your Pulp Fiction Meal. I wanted him! All I got was stupid Uma Thurman with the needle in her chest. I don't WANT to comb her hair! And pushing on the needle to revive her from an over-dose is soo lame. So what if her eyes pop open when you do it. It sucks."
7. Don - July 2, 2008 9:05 PM
I think the Batman haters need to STFU. Just STFU. The marketing campaign is badass so STFU. I hate you guys. Once again... STFU
8. Cheese - July 2, 2008 9:50 PM
Perhaps over looked, but the left side of the face is the joker and the right is batman (look at the eyes and mouth). Although both sides of the face are wearing the batman cowl.
9. Doug Nelson - July 3, 2008 2:40 AM
What about the Batman hater haters?
10. Uncle Eccoli - July 3, 2008 9:07 AM
@7 Batman is gay.
11. Brandon - July 3, 2008 1:10 PM
On the right side [your right side], on the eye, it looks like Michael Keaton's Batman.
12. bedot - July 3, 2008 1:50 PM
I like it, but it feels overdone. I think that a simpler cleaner version would be better. The silhouette of the batman mask is identifiable enough that i think they could have used just the cards arranged in a way that implied Batman without being so obvious. Also, the scribbles and the movie title are competing with each other and hurt the legibility of the type.
13. jbl - July 3, 2008 1:57 PM
@6. Awesome. Awesome. That was beautiful. Thanks for that.
#5 had a good point too.
#7 is clearly about 12 years old and will be a virgin for at least another 22 years
14. Tetra - July 4, 2008 8:47 AM
Batman haters are like ex Hillary Clinton supporters who say they're going to back McCain... you know they're just trying to vent their rage, but their a very vocal but VERY small minority, and in the end they'll just end up seeing the film/voting for Obama because no one that obsesses that much can avoid it.
15. Bobeyo - July 5, 2008 12:51 AM
#12: I'm with you. That's just what I was going to say.
#14: Why the hell do you feel the need to drag politics in here? Oh, and quit trying to make yourself feel better by claiming that Hilary supporters now shifting to McCain are such a small minority. A lot of Hilary supporters were Republicans who are finally fed up with Bush's stupidity, but are unwilling to go so far as to vote an unexperienced, radical, racist closet-Muslim into office. Hilary would have won those votes, but now they will fall to McCain.
Needless to say, that includes mine.
16. Brandon - July 7, 2008 1:15 PM
bedot-
That's kind of the point.