The
U.S. DVD box art
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is just ass any way you look at it. The combo crown and sword?
Nice quickie Photoshop job. The title font tries way too hard
to evoke Run Lola Run. The upper left image is there to
reassure mouth-breathers that there is some action in
the flick. The lower right image? I don't even remember it being
in the movie. And don't get me started on the abominable job
done on Franka Potente's face. Sure, let's just wipe out everything
beautiful and distinctive and interesting about her features.
Who is that? Kate Winslet after a botched facelift? Even
her chin cleft is airbrushed out, for Christ's sake! An incomprehensibly
shitty piece of work. Definitely a case of "Don't judge
a DVD by its cover." |
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The original German poster art
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is a lot more like it. Franka is allowed to look like
herself. The lower-case font suggests the film's more subdued
quality. The image of the star-crossed lovers reaching for each
other far better indicates the type of movie this is. Look at
the DVD art again: except for the guy with the gun, it looks
like a period fantasy or something. The German poster, despite
its more prominent romanticism and its vagueness about plot specifics,
looks somehow more contemporary. Clouds figure in both
designs, but the German poster unites the lovers in the clouds,
whereas the U.S. DVD art segregates Franka into some reddish
Reservoir Dogs-ripoff-looking hell. How hard would it
have been to simply port this design over to the DVD? |
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