Novel graphics: Green Book bags the Oscar for most brilliantly bad poster

A cartoon-laden design advertising the worthy race drama in the Philippines is too bad to be true. Could this be the late PR boost the film needs?Green Book is slowly emerging as one of the big villains of Oscar season. Second only to the unimpeachable cruddiness of Bohemian Rhapsody, Green Book has been lambasted for applying a white perspective to a black issue, for misrepresentating its lead character, for the writer’s Islamophobic tweet, its director’s historical penchant for sexual misconduct and the star’s willingness to say the N-word in public. Green Book is, at this point, completely unlovable. Only a miracle could restore its reputation.But what’s this galloping in from the horizon? A charmingly terrible poster being used to advertise the film in the Philippines? A poster so classically, catastrophically inept that it somehow orbits out past “awful” and all the way back to “incredible”? A poster that contains, for all the world, two separate instances of actual clip art where a smiling white man stands arm-in-arm with a smiling black man? Related: Green Book review – a bumpy ride through the deep south Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2019-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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