Take a look at the great new international posters for The Departed.
By Burbanked on Sep 18, 2006 in Movie Marketing 101, Movies, One-Sheetery, Views and Reviews | 2,116 views |
Latino Review has a first look at the international posters and banners for Martin Scorsese’s upcoming crime thriller The Departed. Head over there to see individual character posters - featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson - as well as a larger poster featuring all three.
These are great posters, and I suspect that the look on Nicholson’s face may be the last thing a lot of people see right before they’re sent to their damnation. Man! I can barely glance at it for long without getting the heebie-jeebies.
Even though the group shot in this set of posters is a bit overly Photoshopped, I still like them better than the American one-sheets we’ve seen already. Those are nice, untraditional posters, and they have a strong, intriguing look to them, but there’s something about the way the word “departed” is broken up that bugs me. Why would you ever hyphenate - twice! - an eight-letter word if you didn’t really have to?
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter much. The Departed looks like a great return of the Classic Scorsese movie, and I couldn’t be more hyped about it. How has it taken so long for Nicholson and Scorsese to get together?
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Well, that’s too bad. Back a year or so ago when I heard that they’d be making a movie out of Judi and Ron Barrett’s terrific kids’ book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, I hoped maybe it’d be made live-action. Handled well, the idea of seeing an actual town where it rained hotdogs and baked beans in an open-roof restaurant, as well as the bit where sanitation trucks clean up all the leftover rain/snow/food and feed it to the pets would be, I thought, a bundle of CG-imbued cinema fun. 
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Ann Handley | Sep 18, 2006 | Reply
“How has it taken so long for Nicholson and Scorsese to get together?”
I saw a preview in the last few days and thought the SAME THING…. Brand new…and already feels like a classic in the making.
Burbanked | Sep 18, 2006 | Reply
Hope you’re right. I don’t mind Nicholson chewing the scenery if it’s for a good cause, and his last handful of films have all been pretty fluffy.
And I wasn’t all that excited to see Aviator or Gangs of New York. To me, The Departed feels like the kind of thing that Scorsese does like no one else can.