The American version is not bad, it kind of hip and actiony and I love that they used so much purple, it's almost like proclaiming the Bonnie and Clyde were royalty.
The Polish version is stunning. It conveys the time period when the story took place and it also lets you know there's going to be some intense action, so much red must mean a lot of blood is going to be spilled.
Chinatown:
This is a fantastic Alphonse Mucha like design for Roman Polanski's masterpiece. Faye Dunaway emerges from Jack Nicholson's smoke like a mysterious goddess. She hovers over the landscape of this poster like she hovers over the story in the film. It's hard to top this great design.
This design, while not topping the original American design, sure gives it a run for it's money. Everything you need to know about Chinatown is right there. It's about sex, money, and black hearted people.
It never ceases to amaze me how two people can look at the same thing and see different things or how two artists can be given the same assignment and how their results can differ so widely. It restores my faith in mankind when I see stuff like this.
