Film Analysis Of The Movie 'Inception'

The movie posters mainly serve the needs of movie the makers whose ultimate purpose is to popularize the movie. To create a successful movie poster, designers need to go deeper into them. Therefore, they occasionally create several posters for the same movie. The two posters are for a science fiction movie "Inception,” which may appear to be analogous in the overall mood, but different in colors, fonts, various codes they comprise, etc. Poster 1 The first poster is a popular movie cliché – a silhouetted loner viewed from behind and placed in the center so that he immediately grasps the attention of the audience. Although his face is not visible, we still can assume that he is the main character of the movie as his name is placed

It pictures ruining skyscrapers with the dust coming out of them, indicating an inevitable disaster which reminds the viewer an action movie. Right in front of the falling giants, we can see ant-sized people standing on the very edge of the coast, watching the landfall and holding guns as well. It seems like, no matter what kind of weapon they obtain, they are forceless against the uncontrollable power of nature. The camera angle is very appropriate I guess, as it emphasizes more and more the power contradiction human versus nature by exhibiting how different they are in size. Water covering the lower half of the poster does not exemplify the same thing as in the poster of a loner. In this respect, it highlights the insoluble situation, and the building on the farther background, falling directly into the water gives the feeling that the catastrophe is much closer than it appears to be. All in all, one of the main differences between the two posters is that the second one gives much more piece of information than the one with a loner as it provides action and even drama, and the further development of the plot is getting slightly predictable. Poster