Sunday, 16 September 2012

The Shining: Movie Poster Analysis

The first thing we notice about this movie poster is that about half of it is black and the other half is white. The part in which the poster is black, we see Jack Nicholson barging through the door with a axe and a demented psycho look on his face. Because of all this we can tell that he is the villain in the film and by the look of the crazed look he has in his eye and his smiling bared teeth we see that he is stalking his prey, the woman on the other side of the wall. The woman who has a very frightened look on here face is on the more white side of the poster; this tells the audience that she is innocent. Because of the way she is clutching the wall, with her mouth wide open and wide terrified eyes suggests to us that she is trapped and has nowhere else to go. Because the woman is shot in the background that makes her look a lot smaller compared to the villain, giving him a lot more power over her.

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